Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.
Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.
The global tech ecosystem gathers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 at San Francisco’s Moscone West on October 13-15. Get your pass now to save up to $100. Get a second of the same ticket type to save 50%.
JFrog security researchers disclosed CVE-2026-105192, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw affecting LMCache 0.3.9 through 0.5.6, with no fixed version yet available. A public PoC raises the risk for vLLM inference clusters that rely on the component in multiprocess mode and expose the relevant port.
OpenAI retracted three mathematics papers on October 7, 2026, after a sign error in a foundational paper invalidated a dependency chain, and revised 14 other manuscripts while adding six formal proofs.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch. Much of it comes from the idea that the same AI…
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
OpenAI has published 722 model-generated mathematical manuscripts on GitHub, prompting Fields Medalist Terence Tao to warn that AI's focus on solving problems is stripping mathematics of the byproducts that sustain new methods and questions. The controversy over OpenAI's claimed solution to Navier-Stokes and a joint statement by 25 Fields Medalists have exposed a deeper conflict between AI-driven benchmarks and the mathematical community's standards.
On day one of Pwn2Own in Cork, Ireland, security researchers launched a concentrated assault on AI infrastructure, with LiteLLM broken twice by two independent teams, OpenAI Codex felled by a single vulnerability, and Oracle's autonomous AI database also failing to hold.
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it dance or…
This week, we released our 2026 version of our Climate Tech Companies to Watch list. It’s an annual project that the MIT Technology Review team puts together. Our goal is to highlight some of the promising, interesting advances and firms we think are worth paying attention to in the world of climate and energy technology. …
The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that operates purely in the digital world, industrial AI can interact directly with physical systems,…
Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program into a three-tier access framework, opening early access to Claude Opus 5.5 and other unreleased models to qualified security professionals. The program has surfaced more than 129,000 vulnerabilities over the past six months, 33,000 of them rated critical or high severity.
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 with steep short-context price cuts, but requests over 100K tokens trigger a 5x price jump, and a more aggressive tokenizer further complicates real savings for RAG and long-context workloads.
