Microsoft on Monday launched its first specialized cybersecurity model along with a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, dealing a big blow to the major players in the space, namely Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model created “to find challenging vulnerabilities in complex codebases.” The
Last week, an unreleased model created by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model, chaining exploits to gain access it should never have had. But while the
AI search is quickly becoming the default option, whether users like it or not. In just one year, Google’s AI-generated search responses, known as AI Overviews, have gone from appearing in 15% of searches to 43%, according to a new report, driving a shift in the way web users consume information online. In a recent
AI doesn’t just run on code: it requires enormous amounts of energy, and that demand is increasingly becoming a critical bottleneck. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the intelligent systems stage will be where energy, infrastructure and technology collide, covering everything from advances in fusion to the grid strain that AI is putting on the entire economy.
Snapchat now lets users share the music they’re listening to in real time through a new feature in Snap Map, TechCrunch has exclusively discovered. Called “Now Playing,” the feature allows users to link their streaming service account (starting with Spotify) and share what they’re currently listening to via Snap Map, and see what songs their
Several robotics companies are tackling one of the toughest problems in AI: building basic models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to perform. Their approaches run the gamut: from studying millions of web videos and running computer simulations to collecting motion data from humans performing tasks while wearing gloves with embedded sensors.
