Are you even online in 2026 if you haven’t experienced the verbal tics of ChatGPT? It loves goblins, em dashes, and “it’s not A; it’s B” sentence constructions. But what you might not know is that the chatbot also has plenty of strange phrases it loves to say in Chinese, and they are driving Chinese…
Google on Thursday unveiled its new Fitbit Air, a Whoop-like screenless wearable that retails for $100. The device includes health and fitness tracking features like 24/7 heart rate monitoring, heart rhythm monitoring with AFib (atrial fibrillation) alerts, blood oxygen level, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more. The tech giant…
You can spend months trying to get in front of the right people. Or you can show up where they’re already looking. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, more than 10,000 founders, investors, and operators will gather at Moscone West from October 13–15. And at the center of it all — where deals start, conversations accelerate, and new companies get discovered — is the…
Most agentic applications today have a memory problem. Every time a user opens a new session, the agent starts from zero. There is no recollection of what was discussed, what workflows were in progress, or what decisions were already made. The session ends, and everything disappears. For dev teams shipping production agentic applications, the only…
As AI more and more takes over the work of contemporary programmers, the cybersecurity world has warned that automated coding instruments are certain to introduce a brand new bounty of hackable bugs into software program. When those self same vibe-coding instruments invite anybody to create functions hosted on the internet with a click on, nonetheless,…
The California-based reggae band Stick Figure has been around for 20 years, eight albums, and countless hours on the road, but lead vocalist and guitarist Scott Woodruff has never seen a track take off like “Angels Above Me” did this past week. The six-year-old song hit number one on the iTunes sales charts in six…
Evaluating AI models trained on brain signals has long been a messy, inconsistent topic. Different research groups use different preprocessing pipelines, train models on different datasets, and report results on a narrow set of tasks — making it nearly impossible to know which model actually works best, or for what. A new framework from Meta…
Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion, the startup’s co-founder Nico Laqua said on LinkedIn. This comes just four months after the company announced a $108 million Series A. The company has now raised $268 million in funding to date, Laqua…
Training frontier AI models is not just a compute problem — it is increasingly a networking problem. And OpenAI just introduced its solution. OpenAI announced the release of MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), a novel networking protocol developed over the past two years in partnership with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. The specification was published…
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this editor about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong. On stage with…
