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For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and... For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python, which most people never did; or move up the stack and let someone else’s library do it, namely PyTorch, CuPy, or RAPIDS. The second option is why the Python GPU ecosystem thrives. But it has limits. Source

Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems typically "have to make a trade-off between the two." First introduced in June, Jalapeño is an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) made in partnership with Broadcom. It's designed for AI inference - the process of running a trained AI mod...

Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

Stratechery commentary on Netflix potentially selling third-party streaming services as aggregation strategy.

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama citizens, the AG's office said in a statement. "This AI lab leak showed that Alabamians' and Americans' worst fears about artificial intelligence are not just theoretical," said Attorney General Steve Marshall. "Our investigation seeks to...

Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—an idea called embodied AI—was a key facet of China’s latest five-year plan, and companies here are already world leaders in humanoids. Nearly 90% of the…

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar discusses how chips, compute, models, and products integrate to scale intelligence while reducing costs.

OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip achieves industry-leading speed and power efficiency for AI model serving.

Andrew Ng launches AI Engineering coverage, focusing on practical implementation patterns as field matures beyond research.

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."

OpenAI disrupted Russian accounts using AI for coordinated inauthentic behavior, including a fake Israel think tank and sovereignty index promoting Russia.

IDC research on sovereign AI adoption drivers and barriers across critical infrastructure sectors.

OpenAI launches Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex enabling workspace analytics, member management, permissions control, and usage limits.

Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs

BPCO training recipe stabilizes critic-based RL for LLMs by combining DPPO, bounded value predictions, and adaptive advantage estimation.

ReWorld interactive world model uses mixed-attention windows and random routing to balance short-horizon control with long-horizon memory at inference.

SWE Refactor Bench evaluates coding agents on whole-repository migrations, addressing 'Blindness' bug where agents copy original implementations to pass tests.

Expert-Grounded Distillation framework distills road safety expertise into compact vision-language model for low-resource auditing.

Phy-BP framework estimates blood pressure from triaxial bodyseismography using physics constraints and adaptive quality control.

First-order leave-one-out sampler for uniform and remasking discrete diffusion models achieves sublinear dependence on dimension.

Prime Agent open-source harness enables long-horizon coding-agent workflows via persistent REPL and recursive subagent communication.

ConvergeFlow embedding-space flow model constrains predictions to token-embedding convex hull, eliminating cross-entropy supervision requirement.