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Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually…

Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?

The EU's new Tech Sovereignty Package aims to triple European data center capacity within five to seven years to reduce…

Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960)

Lisp was developed in 1958 by John McCarthy at MIT as a high-level symbolic programming language for AI research, and…

Memory Safe Context Switching (longjmp, setjmp) in Fil-C

Fil-C implements memory-safe versions of context-switching APIs like setjmp/longjmp and ucontext functions that normally…

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

Open Memory Protocol – One Memory Store for Claude, ChatGPT, Curso

Open Memory Protocol (OMP) is a vendor-neutral standard that allows AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor to share…

US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree

Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.

Ornith Is the Open-Source Coding Model Built for Agents, Not Humans

A new model built by DeepReinforce is meant for developers who want AI that finishes the job, not just autocompletes the…

Is It Out Yet?

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models in Kiro, designed specifically for structured software…

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role

VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor, Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.

Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

China Has Its Own Mythos Now, Says Qihoo 360 Founder. And One Version Is Free

Qihoo 360 unveiled a homegrown vulnerability-hunting AI this week—and Z.ai went further, releasing comparable…

Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot…

Segmenting Robot Video into Actionable Subtasks

Researchers introduced WGO-Bench, a benchmark for automatically segmenting robot videos into actionable subtasks, which…

Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting

Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy

Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.

Watch out, Amazon: the Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading…

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that enables secure, on-demand access to SSH,…

.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

The .garden top-level domain has experienced a dramatic surge in malicious activity, with registrations jumping from…

Meta Unveils New Tech That Uses AI to Translate Brain Activity Into Text—Without Surgery

Meta says its latest Brain2Qwerty system translates brain activity into sentences using non-invasive brain recordings,…

Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix

The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years..

The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live

# Summary AI tools can rapidly generate the first 80% of working code—the basic logic and demo-ready scaffolding—but…

Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of…

South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘ RAMageddon’

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI…

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

Routers in AI inference are evolving from simple model-selection tools into orchestration layers that can improve model…

Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody

But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding