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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question for founders: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? For investors, it’s the opposite: How do you find that company before someone else does? At Disrupt, the volume and competition are the point for investors, not a
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10:32 AM PDT · August 20, 2026 An unusual glitch has resulted in the xAI’s Grok chatbot speaking gibberish to many users. After asking the model to generate a PDF, one user received the response: “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often
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Disclaimer: I’m no expert in world religions, traditions, theologies, philosophies or doctrines. The point of this article is not to judge, but to highlight the fact that many of us have grown up in traditions that may influence our perspective of the future in many different and interesting ways.
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Since announcing Google Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at I/O in May, we’ve heard helpful feedback from our customers. Your developers want easy access to coding agents across surfaces. Your enterprise governance team wants security controls and license management. And your finance team wants pooled usage so
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Cords and plugs seem to multiply as the years go on. How they got there is one question — what they actually do is another. If your tangled mess of wires, plugs and adapters has begun to spill out of the dedicated storage space, it’s time to do an audit.
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking
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* Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers are being hit in a new critical infrastructure attack against energy, water and agriculture * Attackers are using AI-generated malware to chain exploitations, and hiding their malicious software as a monitoring tool * The identity of the attackers is not known A joint warning issued by
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Over one-third of webpages published after the release of ChatGPT show signs of being written by AI, according to a new study from Pew Research released on Thursday. The report corroborates other studies that detail how much of the web’s newer webpages are now either written by or “substantially
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Heart Aerospace's experimental electric prototype plane, the X1, completed its first test flight this week. It flew on battery power alone for 27 minutes, reaching a peak altitude of 1,100 feet, as Popsci reports. This was a strong proof of concept for the design, which will help
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A couple of years ago, I fell and fractured my left wrist. The injury meant that I couldn't write, at least not by typing with two hands. As a workaround, I tried dictating text using the voice dictation tools built into Windows. But I was never truly happy
