We look at Gemini-SQL2, the text-to-SQL capability Google Research announced on June 12, 2026. Powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro, it posted 80.04% execution accuracy on the BIRD single-model leaderboard. We explain what the score measures, how the leaderboard stacks up, and what Google has not yet...
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.
Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models at 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters. The models use a hybrid Mamba2 state-space and Transformer backbone, shipping under Apache 2.0. They stay competitive with comparable Transformer VLMs while cutting time-to-first-token by about...
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end 3D medical image segmentation pipeline using MONAI to segment the spleen on the Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task09 dataset. We work with volumetric CT scans, apply medical imaging transformations such as orientation alignment, voxel-spacing normalization,...
Moonshot AI's Kimi Work is a local desktop agent for macOS and Windows. It runs a 300-sub-agent swarm, drives your logged-in browser via WebBridge, and schedules background jobs. The post Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent...
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio models. Last month OpenAI introduced a brand new model to that API called GPT‑Realtime‑2, which they...
Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports that his AI investments have generated $10...
The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.
“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first round of published results, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra NVL72 platform delivers leading performance...
The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.
Elon Musk's net worth has passed the trillion-dollar mark after SpaceX's IPO. His net worth, which was hovering around $800 billion before the IPO, includes the value of his 4.8 billion shares in SpaceX, along with his wealth from his other companies, like Tesla. Shares of SPCX opened at $150 and...
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same...
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same...
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.
You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happened: Apple put out a new version of […]
SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and is raising enough money to likely make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He’ll have more wealth, on paper at least, than the economies of nations like Ireland, Sweden,...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup will work toward developing an "artificial general engineer," according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup, called Prometheus, aims to develop AI-powered engineering tools to aid in the design of physical products. The NYT...
Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human spotted by MacRumors, Craig Federighi said Apple's new Siri won't act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others. "As you may know, if you...
Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.
The company has set aside an unusually high number of shares for retail investors. Still, experts say, you’re just getting the crumbs.
Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation
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The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.”
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.