After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon’s “Melania”fell 67%.

The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to spending.

But this is still a bad idea.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday.

The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.

The "OpenClaw moment" represents the first time autonomous AI agents have successfully "escaped the lab" and moved into the hands of the general workforce. Originally dev...

A developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud c...

Researchers from Stanford, Nvidia, and Together AI have developed a new technique that can discover new solutions to very complex problems. For example, they managed to o...

OpenAI on Wednesday released GPT-5.3-Codex, which the company calls its most capable coding agent to date, in an announcement timed to land at the exact same moment Anthr...

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.6, a major upgrade to its flagship artificial intelligence model that the company says plans more carefully, sustains longer...

From drones with “first-person” visualization to real-time 360-degree replays and Olympics GPT, get ready to immerse yourself in the Winter Games in Milan and Cortina.

Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.

Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.

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The best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use, with meaningful improvements to everyday tasks like slides and spreadsheets.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 sets new benchmark records in coding, reasoning, and computer use while being Anthropic's most aligned model.

Claude Haiku 4.5 matches state-of-the-art coding capabilities from months ago while delivering unprecedented speed and cost-efficiency.

Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F round at a $183 billion valuation to expand enterprise offerings, safety research, and international growth.

Anthropic's response to the White House AI Action Plan supports infrastructure and safety measures while calling for stronger export controls.

Claude Opus 4.6 (fast mode) is now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing for self serve users: 10x credits without thinking and 12x credits with thi...

Claude Opus 4.6 is now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing for self serve users: 2x credits without thinking and 3x credits with thinking. Availab...

We've completely rewritten and retrained the old Windsurf Tab, increasing accepted lines by up to 100% and introducing 2 new aggression levels on our new Pareto Frontier...

Arena Mode brings side-by-side model comparison directly into your IDE, plus Plan Mode and Megaplan for smarter task planning.

GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in Windsurf with multiple reasoning effort levels. For a limited time, enjoy discounts on credit usage.

A comprehensive guide to working with coding agents, from starting with plans to managing context, customizing workflows, and reviewing code.

As models improve as agents, we've found success by providing fewer details up front, making it easier for the agent to pull relevant context on its own.

We're partnering with ecosystem vendors who have built hooks support with Cursor.

Graphite has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor.

Bringing design and engineering closer together.

OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safe...

Korea privacy policy

An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation.

OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse.

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.

Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can try out Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets you create and explore worlds.

D4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.

Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.

Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year

Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of t...

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform

Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents

Beyond permission prompts: making Claude Code more secure and autonomous

Break out the cake and green sprinkles — GeForce NOW is turning six. Since launch, members have streamed over 1 billion hours, and the party’s just getting started. Throu...

Businesses today face the challenge of uncovering valuable insights buried within a wide variety of documents — including reports, presentations, PDFs, web pages and spre...

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz announced a partnership to build a shared industrial AI architecture, merging virtual twins wit...

Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of automotive innovation with a new S-Class built for the AI era, bringing together automotive safety and NVIDIA’s advanced autonomous...

Open source has become essential for driving innovation in robotics and autonomy. By providing access to critical infrastructure — from simulation frameworks to AI models...

Existing approaches for analyzing neural network activations, such as PCA and sparse autoencoders, rely on strong structural assumptions. Generative models offer an alter...

Addressing class imbalance is a central challenge in credit card fraud detection, as it directly impacts predictive reliability in real-world financial systems. To overco...

While modern neural architectures typically generalize via smooth interpolation, it lacks the inductive biases required to uncover algebraic structures essential for syst...

Being able to simulate the outcomes of actions in varied environments will revolutionize the development of generalist agents at scale. However, modeling these world dyna...

Can AI agents predict whether they will succeed at a task? We study agentic uncertainty by eliciting success probability estimates before, during, and after task executio...

This research looks at why Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models often outperform standard Behavior Cloning in imitation learning. By using simple predictions of what happen...

Microsoft Research unveils Paza, a human-centered speech pipeline, and PazaBench, the first leaderboard for low-resource languages. It covers 39 African languages and 52...

AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance o...

Argos improves multimodal RL by evaluating whether an agent’s reasoning aligns with what it observes over time. The approach reduces visual hallucinations and produces mo...

OptiMind is a small language model that converts business operation challenges, described naturally, into mathematical formulations that optimization software can solve....

We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of...

WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats. WhatsApp’s exp...

We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. Our new U...

Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which is why we op...

The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of...

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The technical and practical rationale for a clear separation between these domains. The post Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation appea...

The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code. The post Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (P...

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Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For... The post Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human appeared first...

AWS launches Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offe...

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication of workforce identities and permission sets, enabling improved resiliency for AWS account access and allowin...

Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in Chi...

Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still...

AWS introduces Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 2.3 times inference performance. G7e instances del...

The number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2025. The network layer is under particular threat as hyper-volumetric attacks grew 700%.

Local Uploads on R2 reduces request duration for uploads by up to 75%. It writes object data to a nearby location and asynchronously copies it to your bucket, all while d...

Google's dual-purpose crawler creates an unfair AI advantage. To protect publishers and foster competition, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority must mandate crawle...

Deploy multiple Workers under a single domain with the ability to make them feel like single-page applications. We take a look at how service bindings enable URL path rou...

Moltworker is a middleware Worker and adapted scripts that allows running OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare's Sandbox SDK and our Developer Pla...

Pokémon's promised ad spot at the Super Bowl just aired, and in it we got a glimpse into the Pokémon preferences of celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, Charles Le...

Super Bowl LX is over and the Seattle Seahawks have triumphed over the New England Patriots. While their epic battle was the star of the night, the commercials that surro...

As the Seattle Seahawks took home the win at Super Bowl LX, movie fans were left with a smorgasbord of movie trailers for some of the biggest films of 2026.

Introducing The Dark West, a hardcore action-RPG set in a cursed frontier that got too greedy and paid the price. Occult skills and a poker-esque deck let you customize y...

It turns out the “Mal Reynolds” who issued Steam game Void War with a DMCA takedown was not a troll who also happened to be a huge fan of Firefly. It was actually Warhamm...

After 7 years, Bethesda finally shares some mildly encouraging remarks about Fallout 76 cross-play, a feature fans have been requesting for year.

If you're tired of having to constantly lock in while gaming, give these open-world games a try to rest your mind.

From the immersive sim mastery of Dishonored 2 to the farming perfection of Stardew Valley, these 2016 games are now revered as modern classics.

Green may have joined the Power Rangers as an extra member to the group, but quickly became one of the teams' core colors.

Your modern tastes are in for a pleasant surprise if you give these classic RPGs a chance to blow your mind.