In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling asleep during pitch meetings to investors suggesting a founder fire a co-founder. Brendan Foody, co-founder of the AI talent platform Mercor, which was last valued at $10 billion, went so far…
Someday after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app put in on greater than 50 million telephones, the corporate eliminated it, in keeping with a WIRED evaluation of the newest model’s code. The newest model of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of good glasses, strips…
The UK government has laid out a $1.47 billion plan to shake its dependence on foreign-made artificial intelligence hardware. Under the measures, announced Monday, the UK will spend more than $1 billion on a national AI supercomputer. It will be stocked with $530 million worth of hardware, including $200 million that will go toward specialist…
OpenAI introduced on Monday that it confidentially filed for an IPO, marking what may develop into the one of many defining public choices of the last decade. After which there’s OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s different firm, Instruments for Humanity, which is reportedly conducting layoffs, in response to Business Insider. TechCrunch has reached out to the…
OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an preliminary public providing, the corporate introduced on Monday, kicking off what could possibly be a months-long course of towards debuting on a US inventory trade. The transfer makes it the third firm to file for what could possibly be a trillion-dollar IPO this yr. Tech corporations pursuing probably…
Apple’s drastic overhaul of Siri, introduced Monday at WWDC 2026, makes an attempt to make the smartphone voice assistant extra useful, attuned to iPhone customers’ private information, and action-oriented. A serious facet of this Siri revamp is a partnership with Google Gemini to assist energy the AI software’s underlying mannequin as a part of Apple…
TEXT_COL = “skill_md_content” NUM_COLS = [“skillspector_score”, “static_finding_count”, “skillspector_issue_count”, “virustotal_malicious_count”] TARGET = “clawscan_verdict” def prep(df): out = df.copy() out[TEXT_COL] = out[TEXT_COL].fillna(“”).astype(str).str.slice(0, 6000) for c in NUM_COLS: out[c] = pd.to_numeric(out[c], errors=”coerce”) return out train_p, test_p = prep(train_df), prep(test_df) get_text = FunctionTransformer(lambda X: X[TEXT_COL].values, validate=False) text_pipe = Pipeline([ (“select”, get_text), (“tfidf”, TfidfVectorizer(max_features=20000, ngram_range=(1,2), min_df=3, sublinear_tf=True)), ]) num_pipe =…
Have you ever used the Image Playground app on your iPhone? Probably not — and you might not even know that your phone has a built-in AI image generation tool. That’s because until now, Image Playground has kind of sucked, generating AI imagery that simply isn’t as high-quality as what Apple’s competitors can make. At…
Inference speed is becoming a competitive metric for large language models. Xiaomi’s MiMo team just released MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, built in collaboration with the TileRT systems group. It decodes faster than 1000 tokens per second on a 1-trillion-parameter model. Xiaomi team describes this as a first at trillion-parameter scale. Demos show generation peaks near 1200 tokens per…
Every year I read through thousands of Startup Battlefield applications. And every year, I see the same pattern: The founders who belong on this stage are often the ones who almost didn’t apply. They think they’re too early. They think they need more traction. They think the program is for companies further along than they…
