I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, backstage at an event in Los Angeles. Amid the din around us, de Souza, who speaks in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, offered useful advice for companies navigating the AI security moment we’re all living through,…
The sensible glasses trade has lengthy been a tortured dream of Silicon Valley. The premise is interesting sufficient: What if, to take pleasure in the advantages of cellular computing, individuals didn’t must stare at their telephones all day lengthy and will, as a substitute, merely put on a light-weight computing gadget on their face? Science…
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! Robotaxis are here! And yet, they’re not. That contradiction neatly captures Waymo’s current reality. Anyone walking around San Francisco could reasonably…
Recently, the biggest trend in kitchen gadgets has been “hands-free” and AI-powered devices that act as automated countertop assistants. There are plenty of devices that exist now for people who want to cook more (or at least look like someone who has their life together) but don’t always have the energy for a full kitchen…
I recently had the opportunity to test out a wearable from Bee, the AI wrist gadget that Amazon acquired last year and has since updated with a number of new features. Like other AI wearables, Bee is designed as a kind personal assistant: it records, transcribes, and summarizes the user’s conversations throughout the day, providing…
I have accomplished the unthinkable: I have learned to sleep soundly through the night without my phone at my bedside. Please, hold your applause. If it weren’t for the Dreamie alarm clock, I’m not sure that this Herculean feat would have been possible. If it feels as though I am bragging that I brushed my…
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These potato-salad-slinging AI cooks aren’t taking anybody’s jobs. Not but, anyway. They’re simply right here as volunteers. Project Open Hand, a nonprofit based in 1985 by native grandmother and HIV-awareness advocate Ruth Brinker, prepares and packages meals to satisfy the various dietary necessities of people that want them. The hassle started in response to the…
Most web agents today drive a browser one action at a time. The model receives the current page state — as a screenshot or DOM text — and predicts the next click, keypress, or scroll. This action-at-a-time design made sense when language models had limited reasoning ability. As models have become more capable at writing…
Linear attention replaces the unbounded KV cache of softmax attention with a fixed-size recurrent state. This cuts sequence mixing to linear time and decoding to constant memory. The hard part is not what to forget. It is how to edit a compressed memory without scrambling existing associations. NVIDIA has released Gated DeltaNet-2, a linear attention…
SolarSquare, an Indian rooftop photo voltaic startup that helps households and housing societies undertake solar energy, is in superior talks to lift recent capital after securing India’s largest photo voltaic enterprise funding in December 2024, TechCrunch has discovered. B Capital and Lightspeed Enterprise Companions are set to co-lead the Sequence C spherical, which may worth…
