Rivian’s chief monetary officer Claire McDonough is resigning her place on the finish of October, the corporate introduced in a regulatory filing Thursday. The corporate mentioned McDonough is stepping all the way down to “pursue a brand new alternative and relocate to the East Coast to be nearer to her household.” McDonough has been employed…
Mark your calendars: on Thursday night time, September 10, StrictlyVC — TechCrunch’s boutique night sequence — is heading to New York’s West Village (the actual one — brownstones, cobblestones, and all — not the Mission Bay stretch of San Francisco that’s earned the nickname “Vest Village” for all of the Patagonia-clad VCs roaming round). It’s…
In this tutorial, we use Anthropic’s claude-protein-binder-design dataset, which contains 1,440 AI-designed miniprotein binders tested against 16 targets. Because the release includes both computational predictions and real wet-lab results from two independent labs, we can go beyond simply studying the designs. We evaluate how well structure predictors identify successful binders, whether combining predictions improves performance,…
Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it. That “somewhere” is now a product category with at least a dozen vendors, four incompatible billing models, and marketing pages that quote cold starts measured under conditions nobody publishes. This comparison fixes the units. It covers the five platforms most teams shortlist — E2B, Daytona,…
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it more rapidly than ever before. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups. This…
How a lot do you hate typing? The appearance of enormous language fashions has quickly superior voice-to-text know-how. Whether or not it is Wispr Circulate becoming a member of your conferences to summarize discussions or Google debuting smarter on-device dictation in its newest Pixel smartphone, these instruments do excess of transcribe: They intelligently strip filler…
The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: either the US or China will win at the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially AI agents—researchers in both countries are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, Zoë Schiffer speaks with senior…
Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a document parsing model aimed at high-volume enterprise ingestion. It is a 2.3B-parameter vision language model with an 8,192-token context window and a ~4.6GB footprint, built on Cohere Labs’ North-Micro-Vision-Instruct architecture. Parse takes a PDF, PPT or JPEG page as a base64-encoded data URI and returns Markdown containing text in…
Synthetic intelligence brokers may often get confused and hack into different computer systems, however Anthropic thinks it has a solution to unleash the little rascals into scientific labs and manufacturing services safely. The AI firm launched particulars at present of a brand new framework designed to assist AI brokers use bodily techniques like microscopes, liquid-handling…
In recent months, there has been a surge in reports of police officers misusing automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sold by Flock Safety to stalk former romantic partners—but details about these incidents are often scarce. Now, with documents obtained via a public records request, WIRED can reveal specific details about one extensive Flock-fueled surveillance campaign…
