Apple launched its latest Pro phones, the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone 18 Pro Max, today at its fall “Surprise and Shine” iPhone event. While the design of the phones remains the same as the earlier model, the upgraded cameras are the highlight of the new devices. The new Pro series camera features a…
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and now the U.S. Executive Director of…
Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature that will allow it to do more on its users’ behalf: it’s giving everyone Instinct email addresses. The company’s founder Noah Shinn said on Tuesday that the new email addresses let the agent create and run its own…
The adoption of AI tools by businesses slowed in August, according to spending data at 70,000 companies collected by the payments company Ramp. The latest survey shows 56% of Ramp customers paid for AI products in August, rising just 0.4% from the month before. This isn’t the first time Ramp’s metrics have shown adoption slowing…
Kepler also says it has improved the density of SRAM using ferroelectrics, which can read and write data at lower voltages than the mechanisms typically used to process and store data in semiconductors. The startup did this by developing a new, low-voltage, composite material that works with this ferroelectric approach. Sasi Manipatruni, a Kepler cofounder…
Voice agent teams keep hitting the same wall. The catalog holds 400 voices and the brief asks for the one that is not in it: a Quebecoise receptionist for a Montreal dealership, a narrator in his sixties with lecture hall authority. Briefs outnumber any catalog, and cloning closes the gap one speaker at a time,…
Silicon Valley is understood for embracing the ethos of “transfer quick and break issues.” Poseidon Aerospace’s co-founder and CEO David Zagaynov simply needs to maneuver issues quick. When he was engaged on logistics at Amazon in 2024, Zagaynov and his Poseidon co-founder Parker Tenney (who was at Lockheed Martin) discovered themselves repeatedly speaking in regards…
Bluecore Power introduced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed spherical — simply months after elevating a $10 million pre-seed and popping out of stealth. As TechCrunch beforehand reported, the corporate, founded earlier this year by Kofi Asante, builds small nuclear reactors (SMRs) on floating barges, relatively than fastened areas, to generate clear power for ports…
A hacker stole thousands of bitcoins worth about $340 million in a heist at a settlement exchange used by several cryptocurrency exchanges, representing one of the largest known thefts of crypto this year. Liquid Network, launched in 2018 by crypto firm Blockstream, said in a post on X on Sunday that a “white hat” hacker…
Chrome has formally switched from a four- to a two-week launch schedule, as Google promised earlier this yr, with Tuesday’s launch of Chrome 153 on desktop, iOS, and Android. The shift to quicker releases is tied to Chrome’s evolving security strategy within the AI period, the corporate defined. As automated AI instruments and group bug…
