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Meta-Harness R&D: Enterprise-Grade Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon AI Workflows
How autonomous code improvement can be made disciplined enough for enterprise use
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India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.
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Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker
The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
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Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers chronicling the misadventures of their favorite tech overlords and Washington swamp creatures. ("Favorite" is, of course, subjective.) Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here, especially if you want the hot scoop on quality Amazon...
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Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments
Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.
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Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you
A new update for Google Home could make it less likely your smart home cameras mistake you for someone else, just because you're facing away from the camera. Starting June 23rd, Google's expanding its facial recognition feature so that people you've tagged in your Familiar Faces library can...
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The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire
Google Health Coach seems to think I'm on the verge of physical collapse. My sleep is not where it needs to be, hence my unimpressive readiness score. My heart rate variability, a measure of how recovered I am, is below baseline. I'm spending too much time in a hot, humid environment, it says,...
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Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI
Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.' Clockwork have all reportedly decided to pass on picking up Artificial - director Luca Guadagnino's new biographical drama about OpenAI cofounder / CEO Sam Altman - for distribution deals. And while Neon and Mubi are still said to be interested in the...
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Helping build shared standards for advanced AI
OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.
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GLM-5.2 OpenAI-Compatible API: A Hands-On Guide to Reasoning Effort, Function Calling, and Long-Context Retrieval
We build a practical GLM-5.2 workflow using its hosted, OpenAI-compatible API instead of running the model locally. We set up multiple providers, load the API key securely, and create a reusable chat wrapper. We then test thinking-effort control, streamed reasoning, function calling, a tool-using...
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Executive order bumps up deadline to move off quantum-vulnerable crypto
Order warns of national security risks if post-quantum cryptography isn't adopted in time.
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datasette 1.0a35
Release: datasette 1.0a35 I'll write more about this one tomorrow, but it's a big release. Three highlights from the release notes: New "Create table" interface in the database actions menu, backed by the //-/create JSON API. It can define columns, primary keys, custom column types, NOT NULL...
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OPFS + Pyodide test harness
Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit persistent SQLite files stored on the user's computer. That's what OFPS (Origin Private File System) is for,...
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Mistral OCR 4 Brings Citation-Ready Structured Output to RAG, Agentic, and Enterprise Search Pipelines
Mistral AI released OCR 4 on June 23, 2026, moving from clean text extraction to structured document output. Each block returns a bounding box, a typed classification, and per-page and per-word confidence scores. The model supports 170 languages, runs in a single self-hosted container, and feeds...
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Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas
Datalab released lift, a 9B open-weights vision model that turns PDFs and images into schema-matching JSON. It uses schema-constrained decoding for valid structure and trained abstention to return null instead of hallucinating absent fields, scoring 90.2% field accuracy on a 225-document benchmark....
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How to Use NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2 for ASR, Translation, and Automatic SRT Subtitle Export in Python
In this tutorial, we build a multilingual ASR and speech translation pipeline with NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2. We load the model on a GPU-enabled runtime, prepare audio into 16 kHz mono, and run English ASR. We then translate speech into French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and extract word and segment...
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Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads
Prime Intellect has released prime-rl 0.6.0, an open framework for asynchronous reinforcement learning on trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts models. It trained GLM-5 on SWE tasks at up to 131k sequence length, with sub-5-minute step times and 256 rollouts, on 28 H200 nodes. This breakdown covers...
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Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners
Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a vat of water and, hopefully, produce "something as powerful as MRI" yet "as casual as a trip to the...
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Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.
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How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery
GPT-5 Pro helped solve a 3-year-old immunology mystery, offering insights into T cell behavior. The breakthrough could support cancer and autoimmune research.
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4 days left to save up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Four days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 — the ultimate founder bootcamp — before Early Bird rates end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register today.
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Sony’s AI Camera Assistant is exactly as bad as it looks
When Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII last month, it promoted the phone by sharing some of the worst photos taken on a Sony camera in years. These weren't just any photos, though: they were taken with Sony's new AI Camera Assistant. After a week with the Xperia 1 VIII, I'm here to tell you […]
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How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust
Companies are asking how to build specialized AI that fits with the way their workflows actually run. The first wave of enterprise AI was about access. Companies experimented with new frontier and open models, ran pilots and explored how AI can help. Now, specialized agents — systems of models that...
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Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
For the past three years, "Meta" and "Ray-Ban" have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses - no Ray-Bans - in three different styles and seven colors. One style, I was told several times by various enthusiastic Meta...
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Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating something that feels like a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok.
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The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the...
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How Omio is building the future of conversational travel
Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.
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NVIDIA Powers Over 400 of the World’s 500 Fastest Supercomputers
News Highlights: NVIDIA technology runs 81% of the TOP500 and 90% of the systems new to the list. 26 systems on the TOP500 adopted the NVIDIA Grace CPU, up eight from the previous list. The top eight systems on the Green500 run on NVIDIA GPUs and nine of the top 10 use NVIDIA technologies. No. […]
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NVIDIA Brings Trusted, 24/7 AI Agents to Telecom Operations
Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that impact has been task‑based: automation that speeds up predetermined steps while people manually correlate insights and direct next steps....
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OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs
OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.
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The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.