Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Over the last few weeks, personal assistants like Instinct, Fo, and Muse have enabled users to call businesses for customer...
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Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are...
Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft on Monday introduced new security features designed to protect enterprises from the growing threat of AI agents. The launch...
Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto...
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent that has been gaining ground among developers as an alternative to Claude Code and...
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026 Image Credits:Tenstorrent Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has...
Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them
Elorian, the Palo Alto AI startup that raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation before it...
Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles
Counterfeits of luxury goods are a major problem for fashion houses. Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands’ marks and...
When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
Zach Yadegari has enjoyed an immense amount of success for someone who only recently graduated from high school. Founder of...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 2
Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is here at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Explore innovative startups and solution providers in...