TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we’re partnering with Stripe to find the country’s most exciting early-stage startups. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney to pitch live in front of investors, press, and the tech community. Three will win prizes. One will earn an…
Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership post after nearly three decades, just as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots. Shashua will remain CEO until Mobileye hires a replacement, according to a regulatory filing Thursday. Mobileye got its start making computer vision chips based on Shashua’s…
The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”. You get back a completion, a token count, and a field that reads “model”: “claude-opus-4-8”. Nothing errored. Nothing retried. The request was classified before generation began, matched a sensitive category, and was handed to a different set of weights entirely. Anthropic…
Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to power computing needs of the world’s largest AI labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the new AI rack system known as Helios…
Andrew Ng has announced OpenWorker, an open-source desktop agent that produces finished work rather than conversation. OpenWorker asks the user for an outcome, not a prompt: a polished document, a Slack reply containing the actual numbers, an updated calendar, a triaged inbox. It then breaks that outcome into steps, works…
On Thursday morning, Meta published an ad to its official Instagram account with the message that artificial intelligence will not “make us less connected” or “leave us behind.” It was set to the 1972 David Bowie track “Five Years,” which is about, among other things, the end of the world. “Call us optimists, call us…
The U.S. government is warning that Iranian state-backed hackers are actively breaking in and disrupting industrial control systems at American water and energy providers. This new alert comes months after federal agencies warned of an escalation in hacking from Iranian actors amid the ongoing war. In an advisory updated Wednesday, the FBI, the NSA, the…
Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to a growing roster of third-party image, video and audio models alongside…
Google is adding a selfie video option as a new way for users to log in to their accounts, the company announced on Thursday, joining a growing wave of tech companies betting that biometrics and not password are the future of identity verification online. The tech giant says selfie videos give users more options to…
Nvidia’s effort to deploy its GPUs far and wide is aiming at a new target: the Moon. Lunar Outpost, a startup building robotics for space infrastructure, announced on Thursday that its next Moon rover will use Jetson chips to control its LiDAR system. When it does, it is likely to be the first GPU on…
