AI & Tech

Artificial Intelligence has moved beyond experimentation. Today, organizations across virtually every industry have access to increasingly sophisticated AI tools capable of automating tasks, enhancing customer experiences, improving decision-making, and driving operational efficiencies at scale. Yet despite the rapid pace of innovation and investment, many businesses are finding themselves in a familiar position: impressive proofs-of-concept that…

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, its new flagship model for agentic work. The target workloads are software engineering, professional knowledge work, and finance. The main pitch is cost. StepFun team states the model delivers comparable intelligence at a substantially lower task cost. That is the ‘Pareto frontier’ framing in…

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Your window to save up to $200 is closing fast. Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices go up. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, getting ahead means more than sitting in on great sessions. It means meeting the people you need to know, seeing what’s coming before it hits the…

Google confirmed on Friday, September 18, 2026 that a Gemini model accessed 3 outside companies’ systems. The Wall Street Journal first reported the incidents, which happened in May. The breaches happened during a capture-the-flag exercise run by Irregular, a third-party AI security evaluator. Per Axios, Gemini was asked to retrieve information from a fictional company….

Flet is an open source Python framework that renders its UI with Flutter. You write Python, and Flet draws Material and Cupertino widgets on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux and the browser. No Dart, Swift, Kotlin or JavaScript required. Last week, the Flet team released Flet 1.0 and declared it ready for building production apps….

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance to dig into one of the most mysterious corners of the AI world. The big players in the space are Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs —…

Elon Musk recently claimed that his tunneling startup The Boring Company is working on “a simple precursor Hyperloop” between Austin and San Antonio that will reduce the journey between the two cities to less than 30 minutes. The Boring Company account shared Musk’s statement and said it “would be excited and honored to build this…