In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by actor and director Ben Affleck. The streaming firm introduced the acquisition in March, with an announcement from Affleck saying he needed to “shield the ability of human creativity.” In keeping with Affleck, InterPublic’s AI instruments…
Most text-to-SQL systems treat the task as translation. Feyn AI (YC-backed startup) reframes it around inspection. The Feyn team has released SQRL, a family of models that turn natural language questions into SQL. Instead of generating a query immediately, SQRL can inspect the database first. This lets it resolve ambiguity and write only queries the…
On July 19, Alibaba’s Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, the next flagship in the Qwen family. The research team describes it as a 2.4 trillion-parameter model, ‘second only to Fable 5’ among the systems it benchmarked. The preview is live now. The benchmark table, model card, and license are not. The…
Apple recently filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is “not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.”) On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten…
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! Last week, I wrote about Uber and Waymo and how their partnership appears to be deteriorating….
Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director whose new model of “The Odyssey” is at present conquering the box office, mentioned it’s been “fairly encouraging” to see deep skepticism of AI, particularly from younger individuals. Nolan was responding to a question from interviewer Hugo Travers, who publishes on YouTube beneath the title HugoDécrypte. Travers introduced up the…
A farmer in rural India takes a photo of a dying plant. She wants to research it on the internet but she doesn’t speak English. She shouldn’t have to. That’s the type of problem a nonprofit called Current AI is trying to solve by building open, public AI infrastructure. In February at the India AI…
Research agents already handle real knowledge work today. Teams delegate competitive mapping, due diligence, and literature review to them. However, most benchmarks test a single answer, not large evidence-backed collections. Perplexity targets that gap with a new open benchmark. Perplexity released WANDR (Wide ANd Deep Research). It is an open benchmark and evaluation harness. It…
“> HKUDS AutoAgent Repository: github.com/HKUDS/AutoAgent · License: MIT · Paper: arXiv:2502.05957 AutoAgent is a zero-code agent framework from the University of Hong Kong Data Intelligence Lab. You describe a goal in natural language. The system then constructs tools, agents, and multi-agent workflows without manual coding. It ships an agent editor, a workflow editor, and a…
Three Chinese labs now hold the top of the open-weight leaderboard. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 are all sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models with million-token context windows. Each targets long-horizon coding and agent workloads. This article compares them on three axes an AI team actually decides on: measured capability, license…
