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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss clos…

Perplexity Trains Its Computer Agent on Real Mistakes With Hint-Guided Self-Distillation

Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including faile…

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Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test

A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed…

China leads dexterous hand supply for humanoids

Chinese firms supplied nearly all dexterous hands for humanoid robots in early 2026, but Western players are starting to close in.

Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office

After teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three A…

The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of De…

Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI

The venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment peri…

Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPU

Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and r…

Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Action: A 7B Open-Weights World Action Model That Tops RoboLab-120

Black Forest Labs (BFL), the lab behind the FLUX image models, has released FLUX 3 Action. It is a 7B open-weights World Action Model (WAM)…

CoreWeave connects AI coding tools to infrastructure intelligence

The neocloud vendor provides AI agents with access to data from its infrastructure management platform, helping developers troubleshoot slow…

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech refines voice AI capabilities

The features Google introduced build on existing technology and provide enterprises with a hub for all their AI model capabilities.

Anthropic, OpenAI launches show shift toward multi-model enterprise AI

Anthropic and OpenAI released new models this week, expanding the range of models enterprises can use for different workloads and raising ne…

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face

Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time.…

I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk

Instinct saved me $550, booked my restaurant reservations, and warned me about a phishing scam. It also wasted $64 and might be a security n…

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PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses

Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.

BottleCap AI Releases ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B: 37.2% Fewer Thinking Tokens at a 0.86pp Accuracy Cost

BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B that spends 37.2% fewer thinking tokens across 12 benchmarks.…