A mysterious new AI mannequin known as Ox Alpha has pushed sure corners of the web right into a frenzy of hypothesis about who truly constructed it. The free mannequin was released on OpenRouter on Thursday, the place it was described as “a reasoning mannequin designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and manufacturing workload.” On…
The Dutch Knowledge Safety Authority is fining Uber €825 million (round $966 million) — the second largest penalty issued to this point beneath Europe’s Common Knowledge Safety Regulation, according to Reuters. The Dutch regulator was investigating complaints that Uber had deactivated driver accounts by way of an automatic course of with out adequate warning or…
Harvey has released Harvey Tenet, its first post-trained model, as a research preview as of today. Tenet is a Kimi K3 base post-trained with Fireworks through asynchronous reinforcement learning on long-horizon legal work. The training corpus combined synthetic data, publicly available legal data, and human expert data. Harvey states no customer data was used. Against…
You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and basically anything you can find on the internet. Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to…
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! Waymo gets a lot of attention for its fast-paced expansion. And for good reason; it seems like every week, the company’s…
The nation must discover a “compromise” between privateness and security, based on Flock Security CEO Garrett Langley. “When individuals discuss simply one in all these, privateness or security, they’re prioritizing the mistaken factor, and what now we have to prioritize as a rustic is compromise,” Langley stated throughout a recent interview with Fox News. “How…
Frontier open-weight models are shipping faster than the hardware assumptions around them. Kimi-K3, GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash are closing the capability gap with proprietary systems, but releasing parameters only determines who can obtain a model — not who can afford to run it. Serving them still assumes datacenter-class GPU clusters, and as agentic workloads push inference…
In this tutorial, we implement a document intelligence pipeline with deepDoctection 1.2.x that combines layout detection, table structure recognition, OCR, reading-order reconstruction, annotation linking, and structured export in a single workflow. We configure the analyzer explicitly with DocLayNet-based layout detection, Table Transformer structure recognition, and DocTR OCR, then inspect the resulting Page objects to understand…
Vercel has released Is Agentic, a public tool that scores how readily AI agents can discover, access, understand, and use a website. Scans are run and scored by Ora, an agent-experience research company from era labs. Vercel operates the interface, report pages, storage, and the grouping that produces the displayed score. Is it deployable? Yes…
Indian startups spent years getting consumers accustomed to having groceries and everyday goods delivered within minutes. Now Walmart-owned Flipkart is rapidly closing the gap with those quick-commerce pioneers, as global rival Amazon mounts its own push into instant delivery. Flipkart Minutes, which debuted in August 2024 as the e-commerce giant’s foray into quick commerce, is…
