Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest
The climate just got its annual checkup, and the results aren’t looking so hot. “If Earth were a patient coming in for an annual physical, I would say its condition is serious and getting worse,” Oregon State University researcher Bill Ripple says. Ripple is the lead author of a new paper chronicling the state of
Meet Prismm, a startup that helps banks keep families’ money in-house after an account holder dies. It does this by building beneficiary and estate planning into accounts from day one, which makes the transfer of assets to heirs less complicated. Prismm is presenting its mission today on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Google DeepMind chair and co-founder Demis Hassabis took the main stage at the International AI Summit in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday morning to speak to global ministers, media and delegates about innovations in science and math, frontier AI and – taking a hopeful tack – the potential for AI to address climate issues. “I actually
We have to talk about this screen. It’s the first thing you notice, and maybe the only thing that matters, about the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro. It’s a 12-inch, 2800 x 1840 panel with a new technology Amazon calls “Nanomatte” that is meant to decrease glare and increase the feeling that you can reach out
After Mark Zuckerberg’s cautious-looking sip of stout on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast became a social-media talking point, a new debate has emerged: which tech leaders can actually hold their drink? Soon after Zuckerberg’s much-memed appearance, ETN, a tech podcast, built what it called the “Cheeky Pint Benchmark,” publishing a leaderboard of guests’
