Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! If you’re into EVs or sports cars, then you surely saw the kerfuffle over Ferrari’s first all-electric…
Box founder Aaron Levie got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to unpack Levie’s comment. For one thing, we noted that he isn’t disavowing AI…
According to Crunchbase’s latest data around black founders, $643 million has poured into US Black-founded startups since the beginning of the year — an amount not seen since 2022, when Black founders raised $653 million in funding. For context, Black founders raised $942 million of all venture dollars last year (that’s 0.32% of the $290…
I am sitting in the sweltering Nevada heat watching a man struggle to lift a bar over his head. If the man manages to do it, he will win $250,000. The man is Boady Santavy — a two-time Olympic weight-lifting contestant from Canada — and he has muscles that look culled from the Marvel Cinematic Universe:…
banner(“1) logger.configure(): handlers + customized degree + additional + patcher”) mem = MemorySink() logger.configure( handlers=[ {“sink”: sys.stderr, “format”: console_formatter, “level”: “DEBUG”, “colorize”: True, “backtrace”: True, “diagnose”: True}, {“sink”: mem, “level”: “DEBUG”, “format”: “{message}”}, {“sink”: “structured.jsonl”, “serialize”: True, “level”: “DEBUG”, “enqueue”: True}, {“sink”: “errors.log”, “level”: “ERROR”, “enqueue”: True, “backtrace”: True, “diagnose”: False, “format”: “{time:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss} |…
The astounding progress of the hair-transplant trade in Turkey is not only a medical tourism success story; it’s additionally a story of “hacked” medical gear and algorithmic craftsmanship. From a organic and evolutionary perspective, human hair is usually seen as an unremarkable mass of keratin that also performs some vital capabilities—defending our scalps from the…
Trajectory’s concurrent multi-LoRA stack reports a 2.81× experiment-throughput gain over single-tenant RL, with all code in the NovaSky-AI/SkyRL GitHub repository. Most language models improve in discontinuous jumps. A team collects data, trains, and ships a new version. This takes months and produces remarkable or catastrophic behavior for users. Trajectory wants to replace that cycle with…
banner(“5) Evaluate skills on 5 quality dimensions (quality gate)”) DIMS = [“safety”, “completeness”, “executability”, “maintainability”, “cost_awareness”] LEVEL_SCORE = {“Excellent”: 4, “Good”: 3, “Fair”: 2, “Poor”: 1, “Bad”: 0} def evaluate(target): if USE_SDK and API_KEY: try: return client.evaluate(target=target) except Exception as e: print(f” evaluate failed for {target}: {e!r}”) return None def mock_eval(name): import hashlib h =…
The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is trying very sturdy this weekend. Taking the primary spot on the field workplace is “Backrooms,” a characteristic movie growth of Kane Parsons’ series of YouTube videos that includes eerie discovered footage of a mysterious workplace house (drawn from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Directed by Parsons, “Backrooms” made $38 million…
Text-to-speech TTS moved fast over the past year. The line between synthetic and human speech narrowed. Latency dropped below 100 milliseconds for some real-time systems. Emotional control became a standard feature rather than a research demo. This guide reviews the models that really matter in 2026. It is written for AI professionals choosing a model…
