Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.
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Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.
TechCrunch ·GAO cyber chief eyes workforce investments as watchdog does more with less
Jennifer Franks, director of the GAO’s Center for Enhanced Cybersecurity, said the nonpartisan agency needs upskilling and adaptability to keep pace with AI-related threats. The post GAO cyber chief eyes workforce investments as watchdog…
FedScoop ·3 admissions experts on why they require — or nixed — supplemental essays
University leaders discussed application essay strategies in the AI era at the National Association for College Admission Counseling s annual conference.
Higher Ed Dive ·Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case
A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.
TechCrunch ·Workday brings autopilots to finance in autonomous AI bet
The company said its latest tools will anticipate needs and take actions across finance and HR workflows, with customer-defined controls.
CIO Dive ·Workday brings autopilots to hiring, payroll in autonomous AI bet
The company said its latest tools will anticipate needs and take actions across finance and HR workflows, with customer-defined controls.
HR Dive ·IT execs brace for AI agent security incidents
With shadow AI on the rise, 36% of leaders would try to quietly handle an agent-driven security incident without disclosing it, a Workato report found.
CIO Dive ·Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads
Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.
TechCrunch ·Facebook is giving users more control over their algorithm
Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds. Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” on Tuesday, a feature it…
TechCrunch ·Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache
The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least,…
TechCrunch ·Google Play now lets anyone build private, vibe-coded apps that run on Android
Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.
TechCrunch ·SpaceX and Google both said no. Now his software is riding a SpaceX rocket next to Google’s
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
TechCrunch ·Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.
Google AI ·TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 1
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TechCrunch ·SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one subscription
The new X Subscription combines X's paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.
TechCrunch ·The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners, and more. Register now to save up to $100 on your pass and get a second at 50% off.
TechCrunch ·Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases
American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.
TechCrunch ·Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
TechCrunch ·All Systems Go: Global PC App Ecosystem Ready for NVIDIA RTX Spark
NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new beginning for the PC — a reinvention combining the capabilities of a gaming PC, a creative studio and a personal AI supercomputer into a single superchip. With up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI…
NVIDIA ·Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace On Why The Best Proptech Bets May Not Look Like Proptech
In a recent interview with Crunchbase News, Brendan Wallace, founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Fifth Wall, discussed the AI shift, why proptech funding totals may overlook some of the sector’s biggest investments, what it all…
Crunchbase News ·How Unilever tailors AI focus to business outcomes
AI loves context, context loves data, that s where we start, said Allen Bates, SVP, chief digital and information officer, Unilever North America.
CIO Dive ·Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report…
MIT Technology Review ·AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money.…
MIT Technology Review ·NVIDIA Announces New Investments in France’s Startups
Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition to application. France’s…
NVIDIA ·Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
TechCrunch ·WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
TechCrunch ·Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
TechCrunch ·Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
TechCrunch ·This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
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