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Got an Android Phone? Google Thinks You’ll Probably Want a Googlebook Laptop

Apple lovers have long enjoyed seamless connectivity between their iPhones and Macs. Now, Google’s bringing that experience to Android.

4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that t…

How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”

Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die n…

She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost. It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Góm…

The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?

When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have trigge…

US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats

Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security…

UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty

Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned…

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI agent

Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Su…

Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters

We cloned one 10-second voice on 7 platforms and ranked them on reference audio, consent, licensing, and cost. The post Best Voice Cloning A…

StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: A 600B-Total, 27B-Active MoE Model With 1M Context for Long-Horizon Agentic Work

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters and 27B active per token. It supports a 1M…

6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders at Disrupt and sa…

Flet 1.0 Released: Build Production Web, Desktop and Mobile Apps in Python Only

Flet 1.0 shipped on September 15, 2026, and the team now calls the framework ready for production apps. We look at what changed: a layered C…

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their…

You too Google! Google Confirms Gemini Breached 3 Companies in AI Security Tests

Google says Gemini accessed 3 real companies in May by guessing a password and reusing credentials from a public repository. Irregular told…

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown

The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who hav…

Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking

Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions.

ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co…

Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’

The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing…

Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulner…