Coding agents spend a large share of their tool budget on search. When the target is a known symbol, ripgrep answers it exactly. When the target is a behavior described in plain language, keyword matching often misses, and the agent falls back to guessing terms, reading whole files, and assembling context by hand. Each of…
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale successful companies. Hear from startup and venture leaders shaping the tech ecosystem, including Grant Lee, CEO and co-founder of Gamma; Leah Solivan, founder and general partner at Precedent.vc; Robby Stein, VP of…
At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own. This year, the technology, implications, and players are so rapidly developing and widespread that we’re expanding the single AI stage into two! The AI Stage will continue as you’d expect, with a rundown…
I just lately met with some sensible Russian mathematicians who confirmed me a method for synthetic intelligence fashions to speak by way of one thing akin to machine telepathy. The mathematicians work for a startup referred to as Mostik—the Russian phrase for bridge. It’s a nod to the group’s strategy, which permits totally different fashions…
OpenAI’s new Astra mannequin will use a reasoning method referred to as “recurrent depth” that permits it to function outdoors of the sequential pondering that characterizes most reasoning fashions, the The Information reported on Tuesday. This method, additionally referred to as “opaque recurrence,” will seemingly make the mannequin’s chain of thought harder to observe —…
The Trump Administration simply took OpenAI’s aspect within the synthetic intelligence firm’s authorized battle with the New York Occasions. The media juggernaut sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, alleging that the businesses had violated copyright legislation by coaching their AI instruments on its articles with out permission. Now, the federal government has stepped in, arguing…
Teams running coding agents hit the same wall. Claude Code speaks the Anthropic Messages API, Codex CLI speaks OpenAI, and the model a team actually wants to serve sits behind vLLM, NVIDIA NIM, or Ollama. Rewriting the agent is not an option, so the translation layer has to live somewhere else. Switchyard is NVIDIA’s answer:…
Google just announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and marking the third Flash release in six weeks. Both variants run on the same foundational intelligence, refined through long-running agentic loops that recursively evaluate the underlying models. What separates them is not architecture, it is the safety…
Although AI has seeped into each step of the job hunt for each candidates and recruiters, it has taken time to catch on in interviews. Voice AI is infamously difficult to drag off, as brokers get tripped up by accents or “ums.” Habits that might be second nature to a human—like not interrupting a candidate—turns…
When AI safety startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Sequence A 3 years in the past, one of many massive questions within the area was whether or not the AI threats the startup was defending towards would manifest in sufficient amount to make for an actual market. As my former colleague Kyle Wiggers famous on…
