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Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background

Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture

Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind

Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to the lunar surface between America and China—alongside a host of varyingly friendly and rival nations—plus a…

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The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests

In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, oversees this sequence of plots across the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, some of which date…

DLRMv4: The Next-Generation Recommendation MLPerf Training Benchmark

DLRMv4 updates the MLPerf Training recommendation benchmark by replacing the traditional feature-interaction stack with HSTU and introducing the Yambda-5B dataset, pushing embedding tables to about 560 GB. It reflects the shift of production recommender systems toward long user histories and sequential behavior modeling, while testing training systems with heavier attention computation and large-scale embedding sharding.

Assessing & Managing AI Risk for Business and Commercial Deployments: A business owner’s guide to a cost you can measure, price, and manage

AI risk is already on the corporate books. To manage it, enterprises need independent, transparent measurement and should test the systems they actually deploy, not just base models.

What Could Go Wrong When Agents Handle Your Sensitive Data? A New Taxonomy Answers.

The MLCommons AI Risk & Reliability (AIRR) Privacy Working Group has released v0.1 of a taxonomy defining five major privacy risk areas for AI agents. It outlines risks across data ingestion, aggregation and sharing, inconsistent practices, static consent, and accountability, and invites industry feedback.

SGLang and Miles on NVIDIA Vera Rubin

SGLang and Miles on NVIDIA Vera RubinSGLang & Miles TeamOctober 9, 2026Summary We had early access to two NVIDIA Vera Rubin nodes (8 GPUs) and used them to bring SGLang and Miles up on the platfor

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48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next

Less than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at the door, plus get 50% on a second pass. Or score other deals.

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Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?

Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date. Gurman […]

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Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?

On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.

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These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet

Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break

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I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’

In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.

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Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe

Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?

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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

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3 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 in San Francisco. Over 300 startups will show what they’ve built to 10,000 tech leaders. Plus, 250+ speakers are ready to share insights across 200+ sessions. Register before doors open to save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.

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