For years, India was the world’s largest app download market but one of its toughest places to make money. That is beginning to change as Indian consumers spend more on AI, entertainment, and other premium apps. India’s mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending during the second quarter of this year,…
For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed every Y Combinator founder he could…
Rivian spinoff Additionally will lastly begin delivering its first e-bikes to prospects subsequent week, after months of delays associated to unspecified provide chain points. The corporate instructed TechCrunch on Friday that the Launch Version of its TM-B e-bike, which retails for $4,500, has began delivery from its producer to its warehouse within the U.S. Additionally…
print(“\n[10] Plots”) k = min(4, S) idxs = np.linspace(0, S – 1, k).astype(int) fig, axes = plt.subplots(3, k, figsize=(3.1 * k, 7.2)) axes = np.atleast_2d(axes) for c, i in enumerate(idxs): axes[0, c].imshow(rgb[i].transpose(1, 2, 0)); axes[0, c].set_title(f”frame {i}”, fontsize=9) d = depth[i].squeeze(-1) axes[1, c].imshow(d, cmap=”turbo”, vmin=np.percentile(d, 2), vmax=np.percentile(d, 98)) axes[2, c].imshow(depth_conf[i] > THR, cmap=”gray”) for r,…
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The model card is explicit that this is the official release superseding the preview, and that the architecture and size are unchanged. The gains come from re-post-training, not a new design. The checkpoint ships with the…
Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. OpenAI has since launched an investigation into how the incident occurred, which is still ongoing. Now, anonymous sources have told Reuters that more of OpenAI’s…
Over the past few years, the term “weaponized incompetence” has blown up in dating discourse online. It’s used to describe someone—most often the guy, when it comes to heterosexual relationships—who acts like they are incapable of doing things like cooking, cleaning, scheduling, and just generally being thoughtful, in the hopes that their partner will simply…
For 6 months, my husband convinced everyone that I had stolen millions from the company I built, including our own daughter. As I sat in federal court, certain I was about to lose my freedom, the doors suddenly opened. My 9-year-old son walked in carrying an old blue backpack, looked straight at the judge, and…
Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator, to create fabricated images inside its satellite imagery mapping app Google Earth. The whole point of this feature, Google said, was to get creative with geography. But critics quickly pointed out that the tool could…
The prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley is that Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek R1 came out of nowhere. But the truth is that even if you never travel to China, there’s an easy way to get a sense of what Chinese AI researchers are up to: log on to X. In the…
