The Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that the driving force of a Tesla who crashed right into a home in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding the corporate’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software program. Knowledge recovered from the Tesla confirmed that the car was touring greater than 70 miles per hour…
Neko Health, the body-scanning and health assessment startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 million Series C. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and O.G. Venture Partners. This follows the company’s $260 million Series B raised in January 2025. Neko…
In this tutorial, we implement a Gin Config–controlled PyTorch experiment pipeline in which the executable training code remains stable. At the same time, the experimental degrees of freedom are moved into declarative configuration files. We construct a nonlinear spiral binary classification task, define a configurable MLP with scoped architectural variants, and expose parameters for the…
Google said it has made its largest solar power and battery storage purchase to date. The first two phases of the project, located in Arkansas, will generate enough electricity to power about 6% of the state’s peak demand, the company said earlier this week. Electricity from the project will flow directly to the grid, offsetting…
A few months ago, my fiancée and I splurged on a pair of ebikes. We live in an especially hilly area of Atlanta, which is an especially hilly city, and we’d both just gotten bonuses at work, making the nearly $2,000 per bike feel, for a moment, digestible. We placed our orders online, and days…
The co-inventor of Apple’s FaceID and Vision Pro technology has spent the past six years building a frontier artificial intelligence model that could one day help decode electrical activity in the brain to diagnose cognitive disorders. Now Gidi Littwin’s startup, Hemispheric, has raised $52 million in funding after gathering data on 100,000 people’s brains to…
Spotify announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing parent-managed accounts for kids to its free tier. Families in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, and the Netherlands can now create a “Managed Account” for their child, a feature previously available only to paid subscribers. “Managed Accounts,” which launched in 2024, is a shared account feature that…
AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separate businesses dedicated to deploying AI engineers to their customers’ offices — a bet that assisting businesses in figuring out how…
Realta Fusion has spent the last two years looking for somewhere to build its research and development facility. In the end, it chose the old Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wisconsin. “From sausages to fusion,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch with a chuckle. The new center, called Forge, will create…
Physical badges used to be all you needed for identity management at a company. But with humans now working alongside machines and AI agents in digital environments, even the identity tools built for the cloud era are proving inadequate. That’s the gap Israeli startup Oak is stepping out of stealth to fill, it says. Co-founded…
