As Large Tech dumps billions of {dollars} into America’s knowledge heart buildout, a slew of alternatives have opened as much as the electricians wiring these large services. In some instances, the dimensions of the tasks and the demanding development timelines are fueling expertise wars for the trade’s greatest and brightest. The US-based Worldwide Brotherhood of…
You got a World Cup ticket. It arrived in your inbox with a QR code, professional branding, and a confirmation email that looked like the real thing. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. For years, spotting a scam was relatively simple. A suspicious email address, broken English, or an obvious typo were often enough to raise suspicion. But…
MoonMath AI team has released a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD’s MI300X GPU. It is written in HIP, not hand-written assembly. The code is open-source under the MIT license. The MoonMath.ai team reports it beats AITER v3, AMD’s own optimized kernel, on every tested shape. Bare-metal access came from HotAisle, an AMD cloud provider….
Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 to build weapons. The first one, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped with parts from Home Depot and Amazon, didn’t work out — “hydrogen was just a bad bet in general,” he told me this past week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles. Three years later, his…
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Large language models are stateless by default. Each API call starts fresh. The model forgets your last message once the response returns. That is fine for a single question. It breaks the moment you build an agent. Agents plan, call tools, and run across many steps. They need to remember. Memory is the infrastructure that…
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French online game firm Ubisoft, died Friday on the age of 69. According to French media (through Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a airplane crash within the French resort city of La Baule. He was one in all two individuals aboard the airplane, each of whom died. Guillemot based Ubisoft along with…
Anthropic recently took its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order from the Trump administration, prompting broad debates about AI policy and digital sovereignty. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Sean O’Kane, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed what actually prompted the administration’s moves against Anthropic, and what this might…
Polymarket has been paying on-line creators to publish misleading movies that present them making profitable bets on the prediction market, in response to a new investigation within the Wall Road Journal. The WSJ mentioned that it analyzed 1,100 movies about Polymarket and in addition seen tutorial supplies that the corporate supplied to creators. Lots of…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Today is Juneteenth, a U.S. federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States. About 10 years ago, there…
