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AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in a $8.2 billion deal, the two companies said today.

Imagine you are building a robot to sort mail. You give it a set of simple rules: if the envelope is small, put it in the “letters” bin; if the envelope is large, put it in the “packages” bin. This is how traditional computer programming works. It relies on exact, rigid rules that humans write,…

In this article, I am going to present a novel approach for merging several sorted sequences into one called guided K-merge and, based on that, a general-purpose sorting algorithm called guided K-merge sort.

Artificial intelligence models trained to process language and images tend to judge a person’s character based entirely on their facial features, mirroring a common human bias. Recent experiments suggest that these language models use arbitrary facial characteristics to make weighty decisions about whether someone is competent or even likely to commit crimes. The findings were…

In their 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning paper, Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews, Weixin Liang, Zachary Izzo, and their coauthors built a statistical method for estimating how much text in a large collection had been substantially written or rewritten by a…

A common issue I started facing when using a coding agent such as Claude Code or Codex was that my usage was going extremely fast. By extremely fast, I mean that for Codex, I would typically use up my weekly allowance in about 10-12 hours, which becomes very expensive if I am to cover everything…

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing,” which…

Google plans to send AI chips into low Earth orbit next week through its Project Suncatcher research mission. The prototype satellite will carry Google Tensor Processing Units into space on October 1, 2026. 

The AI Lab PrismML — founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley’s Ion Stoica — has created a version of its tiny language models for smart glasses running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips.

For founders, Startup Battlefield 200 is one of the biggest moments of their careers. For everyone else in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 audience, it’s one of the best ways to learn how great companies are actually evaluated by VCs.