TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How to watch the Startup Battlefield finale, Cluely, Solana, SF’s mayor
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is here! If you’re still on the fence about attending in person,…
Meet EverOS: An Open Source Markdown-First Agent Memory Runtime With Hybrid BM25 + Vector Retrieval and Self-Evolving Skills
EverMind has released EverOS, an open-source memory runtime for AI agents. It ships under an Apache 2.0 license. It targets a problem agent builders hit early: large language models are stateless. The conversation ends, and the context is gone. EverOS proposes a different substrate. Instead of locking memory inside a vector database, it writes memory…
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure test,” he told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “People say…
YouTube Shorts adds 2x playback, mute button, and new recommendation controls
YouTube has announced a new set of updates for YouTube Shorts, introducing new playback controls, a cleaner viewing experience, and more personalized content recommendations. The latest features are rolling out gradually based on user feedback gathered since Shorts debuted five years ago. The update focuses on reducing interface distractions, giving viewers greater control over playback,…
Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch
The Transformer’s attention mechanism has barely changed since 2017. Most efficiency work has tried to replace softmax attention outright. A new paper takes a different route. It keeps softmax attention and bolts on a correction branch. A team of researchers from Northwestern University, Tilde Research, and University of Washington introduce a parameterized Local Linear Attention…
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra announced, featuring 15-inch mini-LED display, NVIDIA Blackwell RTX, 128GB unified memory, and more
Microsoft has announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful Surface device to date, aimed at developers, AI researchers, software engineers, and creative professionals. Developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, the new laptop is designed to handle demanding workloads, including large-scale AI models, software development, 3D rendering, and content creation, while maintaining the portability of a…
Visa invests in Replit to power agentic payments for developers
Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit. The two companies are also exploring how to integrate Visa’s payment products into Replit, so that developers — and the AI agents they build — can accept payments directly from customers without leaving the platform. Visa added that more than 1,000 of its employees…
A Developer’s Guide to Systematic Prompting: Mastering Negative Constraints, Structured JSON Outputs, and Multi-Hypothesis Verbalized Sampling
Most developers treat prompting as an afterthought—write something reasonable, observe the output, and iterate if needed. That approach works until reliability becomes critical. As LLMs move into production systems, the difference between a prompt that usually works and one that works consistently becomes an engineering concern. In response, the research community has formalized prompting into…
OpenAI adds Codex Pets with real-time task overlay
OpenAI has introduced a new feature called Codex Pets in the OpenAI Codex app. The update brings animated floating companions that allow users to monitor tasks in real time, without switching back to the main interface. What Are Codex Pets? Codex Pets are optional animated overlays that sit on top of other apps and display…
Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money. The company admitted this test — which it called Project Deal — was only “a pilot experiment with a self-selected participant pool” of 69 Anthropic employees who were given…
RightNow AI Releases AutoKernel: An Open-Source Framework that Applies an Autonomous Agent Loop to GPU Kernel Optimization for Arbitrary PyTorch Models
Writing fast GPU code is one of the most grueling specializations in machine learning engineering. Researchers from RightNow AI want to automate it entirely. The RightNow AI research team has released AutoKernel, an open-source framework that applies an autonomous LLM agent loop to GPU kernel optimization for arbitrary PyTorch models. The approach is straightforward: give…