SpaceX shows investors a slim AI smartphone prototype powered by xAI technology
SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI smartphone that's supposedly thinner than an iPhone and integrates xAI tech. The device runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip with…
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SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.
Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
The actor and investor is joining forces with Morgan Beller, who was previously a GP at NFX, to invest in early-stage startups.
Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being…
Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers
Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year…
Deploying retail AI to scale personalisation and customer insight
Optimising retail AI infrastructure drives the successful deployment of personalisation systems and real-time customer insight. Leaders are replacing static customer interaction patterns with data pipelines capable…
Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implants
Meta's FAIR AI team uses Brain2Qwerty v2 to translate brain activity into typed sentences, with no implants or surgery required. The system reads magnetic signals outside…
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations. and Q&A on what it takes…
Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud…
Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users
Anthropic is removing a hidden monitoring feature from its programming tool, Claude Code, after it sparked outrage on social media. The article Hidden code in Claude…
Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates
Claude Sonnet 5 ranks fifth in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 53 points and even beats the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But…
Japan’s answer to its worker shortage: An AI model for 10 million robots
Japan’s AI robots plan just went from a talking point to a formal national strategy. This week, the government confirmed the numbers everyone’s been quoting: 10…
OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models, breaking with single top-tier strategy
An OpenAI benchmark paper suggests that the Pro tier of GPT-5.6 could ship in three variants. That would be the first major change to ChatGPT Pro's…
Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance
The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover the use of agentic AI in finance, including payments, trading, cybersecurity, and operations. Deputy Governor…
Anthropic deploys Claude Sonnet 5, Fable and Mythos restored
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal export control review. The decision marks the…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower: an Open-Weight Diffusion Language Model Built on a Frozen Autoregressive Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B Backbone
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, a diffusion language model built on a pretrained autoregressive backbone. It ships as open weights under the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License.…
Google AI Introduces TabFM: A Hybrid-Attention Tabular Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Classification and Regression
Google Research has released TabFM, a foundation model for tabular data. It performs zero-shot classification and regression through in-context learning. Predictions come from a single forward…
Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak
After a two-week ban, the US government is letting Anthropic ship Fable 5 globally again. Amazon researchers had found a jailbreak, but Anthropic says even much…
CUP (Common Useful Python): Building Reliable Python Workflows with Baidu’s Utility Toolkit
In this tutorial, we explore CUP, Baidu's Common Useful Python library, as a practical utility toolkit for stronger Python workflows. We install it in a Colab-friendly…
The “Father of the Internet” is finally retiring
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.
Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation
Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.