Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi to his home in Kandhla, a small town in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. The 120-kilometer journey costs him about ₹500, the equivalent of about $6. That’s a fraction of the ₹1,500–₹2,000,…
In this article we will analyze how Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are productizing ‘agentic’ capabilities across computer-use control, tool/function calling, orchestration, governance, and enterprise packaging. Agent platforms, not only models, now define competitive advantage. Google is aligning Gemini 2.0 with an enterprise control plane on Vertex AI and a new ‘front door’ called Gemini Enterprise….
New AI-powered web browsers such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet are trying to unseat Google Chrome as the front door to the internet for billions of users. A key selling point of these products are their web browsing AI agents, which promise to complete tasks on a user’s behalf by clicking around on…
In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, equip it with a tool interface, and design an intelligent agent that can analyze its environment, decide on actions like clicking or typing, and execute…
John Nitti has left his position as X’s advertising chief after just ten months, reports the Financial Times. Nitti, who joined as global head of revenue operations and advertising innovation, was considered a potential successor to former CEO Linda Yaccarino, who resigned in July. His exit adds to a string of high-level departures from Elon…
The Enhanced Games, a new sporting competition explicitly designed to allow performance-enhancing drugs, looks like a publicity stunt for the techno-macho era: Olympic athletes on steroids competing for million-dollar bounties in Las Vegas. But co-founder Aron D’Souza has a 90% gross margin telehealth business in mind, and a pitch to governments struggling with aging populations. …
Three days. That’s it. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — the startup world’s biggest stage — kicks off October 27 – 29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. When Disrupt 2025 arrives, the city doesn’t just host innovation — it amplifies it, transforming San Francisco into a living showcase of ideas, products, and partnerships driving the next wave of tech. Prices jump to the full rate when doors…
Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 Mobile Platform, the latest addition to its mid-range chipset lineup and a successor to last year’s Snapdragon 6s Gen 3. This new release marks a significant leap forward for the 6s-series, bringing flagship-grade efficiency, performance, and gaming capabilities to the affordable smartphone segment. The Snapdragon 6s Gen…
Rivian has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action shareholder lawsuit filed after the company suddenly hiked prices on its R1 pickup truck and SUV in 2022. The lawsuit alleged Rivian had included misleading statements and figures in regulatory filings in the run-up to its 2021 IPO about the costs required to…
Instagram has rolled out a new creative tool called “Restyle”, powered by Meta AI, that lets users transform their Story photos and videos through text prompts or preset effects. The feature brings AI-powered editing directly into the app, enabling users to remove unwanted objects, change backgrounds, or add artistic elements – all before sharing their…
