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Voice assistant and conversational AI agent developer PolyAI Ltd. today announced the release of Dialog-RSN-1, a voice dialog artificial intelligence model capable of directly perceiving and responding to audio.

Crunchbase News talks with former NEA partner Vanessa Larco about how she evaluates startups based on founder potential rather than initial ideas and how she.

Agentic security startup Cantina formally launched today and said it has raised $8 million in funding to automate the security work that happens after a vulnerability is found.

The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures' Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator's Garry Tan.

London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.

A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page.

In March 2026, Lambda ran AgentBeats , an AI agent security competition in which teams submit two kinds of agents: an attacker that tries to manipulate a target LLM into doing something harmful, and a defender that tries to stay helpful while refusing the trap (check the final leaderboard here ).

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A fundamental flaw.

AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.

Peter Parker's isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling.

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it's likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and.

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a.

Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it's challenging engineers to make every GPU count.

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating "exploitable trust".

Object storage software company MiniIO Inc. says it has cracked the persistent memory problem for artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new offering called AIStor Memory.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today confirmed its earlier expectation that runaway memory chip prices will drive a massive 19-fold jump in operating profit, as robust artificial intelligence demand continues to accelerate momentum in its semiconductor business.

Shares of the chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Arm Holdings Plc were trading lower after-hours today after warning of sluggish demand in the smartphone industry due to rising prices relating to the cost of key components such as memory chips.

Microsoft Corp.'s stock was trading 9% higher in the after-hours session today after reporting four-quarter earnings and revenue that surpassed Wall Street's expectations while reiterating its capital expenditure forecast for the rest of the year.

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI model, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a program that will give 100,000 researchers free access to ChatGPT's advanced feature. ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is part of a $250 million OpenAI initiative designed to support scientific projects. The initiative also includes several other programs.

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how.

Meta Platforms Inc.'s shares fell more than 8% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company beat revenue expectations for its fiscal 2026 second quarter but missed badly on earnings as costs rose 55%.

On the company's second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a "large enterprise opportunity" spanning AI agent, APIs.

Disaggregated AI inference is proving to be more than a complementary answer to the prefill and decode bottleneck slowing enterprise AI at scale, and Cerebras and AMD just announced a partnership to build the fastest version of it in the world.

Knowledge graph architecture has emerged from the concept stage, consigned to the realm of academia, to the production infrastructure stage, and the enterprises that shape it the right way will own the intelligence their AI creates.

Enterprises are discovering that a scalable intelligence layer built on knowledge graph delivers the institutional context that turns generic AI model into reliable production systems.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

As enterprise AI matures, connected and trusted data is becoming the foundation for real business value. Graph technologies are helping organizations turn fragmented information into actionable intelligence.

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

The U.S. government will provide GlobalFoundries with $300 million in funding to support its silicon photonics research. The U.S. Commerce Department committed to providing the capital in a letter of intent that was announced today.

Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than Waymo , the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out of Google.

CoreWeave posted the leading per-GPU DeepSeek-R1 throughput among NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 submissions in the inaugural MLPerf 0.7 Endpoints benchmark, tested on production infrastructure.

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite.

Comcast, accused of negligence, says lawsuit mischaracterized alleged events.

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

The first of a three-part series on agentic AI. Production AI agent depend on more than model quality. Learn how multi-turn tool calls, bursty demand, and infrastructure shape performance.

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.