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Aug 05, 2026 173

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals 

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue t...

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Aug 05, 2026 276

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help ...

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Aug 05, 2026 209

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

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Aug 05, 2026 206

Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month

Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it w...

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Aug 05, 2026 135

Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle

Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.

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Aug 05, 2026 250

AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

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Aug 05, 2026 144

Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague

The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testi...

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Aug 05, 2026 101

Alibaba, DeepSeek push China’s AI model race towards lower costs

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash model draws attention for inference pricing...

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Aug 04, 2026 199

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.

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Aug 04, 2026 193

AMD’s datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7...

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Aug 04, 2026 457

SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to pro...

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Aug 04, 2026 76

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing ...