Your Hermes AI Agent Now Has a Pet. It Does Nothing — That’s the Whole Point
Nous Research shipped an odd little feature for Hermes Agent: animated pet mascots that sit in your terminal and do…
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Early Bird Pricing Ends Tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
If you’ve been eyeing TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, tonight is your last chance to grab the early bird rate. Prices…
You Don’t Own Digital Content. Sony Is Reminding Europeans the Hard Way.
People in several European countries are about to lose access to Studio Canal movies they bought on the PlayStation Store,…
Robotaxis Drive Miles to Get Cleaned. One Startup Wants to Fix That.
Aseon Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup from Redwood City, has raised $10 million to build small automated pods that can…
Xprize Founder Peter Diamandis Makes the Case for Total Surveillance
Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis wants you to know that being watched is good for you. His take: “Humans behave…
The AI Model Release Bottleneck: Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Now in the Same Boat
Something strange is happening in artificial intelligence. The two leading labs — OpenAI and Anthropic — are finding themselves in…
Instagram Tests New Ways to Let Users Tweak Their Algorithm
Instagram is experimenting with fresh ways to give users more control over what shows up in their feed. Adam Mosseri,…
SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one skeptical of Musk’s orbital data centers
Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers is meeting resistance from an unexpected quarter. Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, recently…
TikTok’s slow march to becoming the everything app
TikTok is done being just a video app. Over the past few years, it’s added shopping, a map for local…
Teenage Engineering’s KO II sampler gets a massive OS 2.5 update
Teenage Engineering has dropped one of the biggest updates yet for its EP-133 KO II sampler. OS 2.5 adds a…