Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has launched Grokipedia, an artificial-intelligence-powered encyclopedia positioned as a direct alternative to Wikipedia. Released as Version 0.1, the platform leverages xAI’s Grok model to automatically generate, verify, and update a massive library of factual content. Musk announced the rollout on X, calling Grokipedia “better than Wikipedia even at 0.1”, and…
Indian automotive giant Tata Motors has fixed a series of security flaws that exposed sensitive internal data, including personal information of customers, company reports, and data related to its dealers. Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that he discovered the flaws in Tata Motors’ E-Dukaan unit, an e-commerce portal for buying spare parts for Tata-made…
iQOO India has confirmed the India launch of its upcoming flagship smartphone – the iQOO 15, set for 26th November, following its debut in China last week. Earlier, Nipun Marya, CEO of iQOO India, confirmed that the company’s next flagship will arrive in India shortly after its China launch. The iQOO 15 will be among…
After two days full of live demos and pitches, it’s time to announce the five finalists at this year’s Startup Battlefield. These finalists were selected from an initial pool of thousands of applicants, with TechCrunch’s editorial team narrowing the field down to the 200 companies that all joined us here at Disrupt, with the Top…
In this tutorial, we explore how exploration strategies shape intelligent decision-making through agent-based problem solving. We build and train three agents, Q-Learning with epsilon-greedy exploration, Upper Confidence Bound (UCB), and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), to navigate a grid world and reach a goal efficiently while avoiding obstacles. Also, we experiment with different ways of…
Qualcomm has announced two new artificial intelligence (AI) chips – AI200 and AI250 – as part of its major push into the data center market. The move signals the company’s intent to diversify beyond smartphones and challenge Nvidia’s dominance in AI computing. Following the announcement, Qualcomm’s shares surged 20%, reflecting strong investor optimism in its…
If every good startup begins with a problem, this one may have begun with a bad Slack conversation. As CEO and co-founder Tom Bachant tells it, he remembers seeing the chaos of Slack-based support — the haphazard ticketing, the jumble of DMs, and little chance for insight into the underlying problems. “The first point was…
Can an open source MoE truly power agentic coding workflows at a fraction of flagship model costs while sustaining long-horizon tool use across MCP, shell, browser, retrieval, and code? MiniMax team has just released MiniMax-M2, a mixture of experts MoE model optimized for coding and agent workflows. The weights are published on Hugging Face under…
vivo India is reportedly preparing to launch its latest vivo X300 and vivo X300 Pro smartphones in India, following their debut in China earlier this month. Both devices recently appeared on the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification website, hinting at an imminent release. According to a report from Smartprix citing tipster Yogesh Brar (@heyitsyogesh),…
Self-driving truck startup Waabi shared Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt the launch of a new autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo, the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck. The unveiling comes eight months since the Uber- and Nvidia-backed startup announced it was partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to build a custom-built truck based on Volvo’s autonomy platform…
