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AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, NVIDIA, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register now to save up to $200 b…

Noble Carbon will show how it’s making EV charger installs painless at TechCrunch Disrupt

Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel upgrade.

OpenAI is about to eat Jev's lunch – Arcturus Labs

Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit

People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

AI Is Antithetical to Learning

Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models

Hi HN! I built JevBench because Jev kicks ass, and the world deserves to know how the serious open source and fake lookalike projects really perform in comparison.Jev-class models return bounded choic…

Training a model to identify AI-generated web content from structure alone

Hey HN! We’re Vincent and Jochen from Sitefire (https://sitefire.ai). We have been working together for years, with backgrounds in RL/optimization at Stanford and software engineering from Technical U…

Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home

These discreet hearing aid glasses now have better voice boosting and battery life

EssilorLuxottica, the company that Meta partnered with for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, announced a new version of its Nuance Audio glasses that are designed to double as discreet over-the-counter heari…

Waymo is offering transit discounts again, this time with Visa

Waymo has made several attempts over the years at offering transit discounts to its customers in the hopes of getting them to more frequently use the company's robotaxis to connect with a train or a b…

Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?

Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent

Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The bug found by security researcher Patric…