Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, has joined the ranks of European fintech unicorns — or startups valued at more than $1 billion — a milestone that has driven some of the region’s biggest exits. These include competitors like Adyen, a Dutch payment processing giant that remains far ahead in scale. However, Flatpay’s fresh…
The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District, according to The New York Times. After Kit Kat was run over by a Waymo robotaxi on the evening of October 27, locals created a shrine to memorialize him. The area has also been decorated with competing signs, some…
Amazon’s budding satellite internet program is no longer called Project Kuiper. It is now known simply as “Leo.” The name change comes as the company appears to be shifting its focus from “unserved or underserved” communities to securing larger commercial contracts. The satellite network has been in the works since 2019 and, as Amazon tells…
When Nigel Morris tells you he’s worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like Aplazo in…
Apple is getting serious about succession planning, according to a new report in The Financial Times. The company’s board and senior executives are reportedly preparing for the possibility that Tim Cook could step down as CEO as soon as early next year. This would come after Apple’s earnings report in late January, giving the new…
According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, the world will spend $580 billion on data centers this year — $40 billion more than will be spent finding new oil supplies. Those numbers help to illustrate some big shifts in the global economy, and comparing data centers and oil seems particularly apt given…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! It seems like a day doesn’t go by without Waymo making some kind of expansion announcement. Detroit, Las Vegas, Nashville, San…
Cerebras has released MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B, a compressed Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) Causal Language Model derived from MiniMax-M2, using the new Router weighted Expert Activation Pruning (REAP) method. The model keeps the behavior of the original 230B total, 10B active MiniMax M2, while pruning experts and reducing memory for deployment focused workloads such as coding agents and tool…
Agentic AI browsers are moving the model from ‘answering about the web’ to operating on the web. In 2025, four AI browsers define this space: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas, Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode, The Browser Company’s Dia, and Perplexity’s Comet. Each makes different design choices around autonomy, memory, and privacy. This article compares their architectures,…
In this tutorial, we explore how to build agentic systems that think beyond a single interaction by utilizing memory as a core capability. We walk through how we design episodic memory to store experiences and semantic memory to capture long-term patterns, allowing the agent to evolve its behaviour over multiple sessions. As we implement planning,…
