Ring’s Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help
The facial recognition question is where things get more tangled.
March 2026
Andrej Karpathy Open-Sources ‘Autoresearch’: A 630-Line Python Tool Letting AI Agents Run Autonomous ML Experiments on Single GPUs
Andrej Karpathy released autoresearch, a minimalist Python tool designed to enable AI agents to autonomously conduct machine learning experiments. The project is a stripped-down version of the nanochat LLM training…
Palmer Luckey’s retro gaming startup ModRetro reportedly seeks funding at $1B valuation
The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in 2024.
Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.
Beyond Accuracy: Quantifying the Production Fragility Caused by Excessive, Redundant, and Low-Signal Features in Regression
At first glance, adding more features to a model seems like an obvious way to improve performance. If a model can learn from more information, it should be able to…
Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s R2 gambit
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”
Building Next-Gen Agentic AI: A Complete Framework for Cognitive Blueprint Driven Runtime Agents with Memory Tools and Validation
In this tutorial, we build a complete cognitive blueprint and runtime agent framework. We define structured blueprints for identity, goals, planning, memory, validation, and tool access, and use them to…
A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listen
The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week’s Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.
Push for $40 smartphones builds momentum, but still faces cost hurdles
A coalition of telecom operators and device makers is pushing $40 smartphones to bring up to 20 million people online, but rising component costs threaten the plan.