Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model
The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
April 2026
A Coding Implementation of MolmoAct for Depth-Aware Spatial Reasoning, Visual Trajectory Tracing, and Robotic Action Prediction
In this tutorial, we walk through MolmoAct step by step and build a practical understanding of how action-reasoning models can reason in space from visual observations. We set up the…
Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses
These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.
X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts
X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier
TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude
Anthropic was the star of the show at San Francisco’s AI-centric conference.
“When Machines Start Thinking Too Much”: Why Experts Are Suddenly Worried About AI Going Rogue
Something has shifted in the air around AI. It is not a dramatic turn of events, the kind that usually heralds a new dawn, but more akin to a hushed…
MiniMax Just Open Sourced MiniMax M2.7: A Self-Evolving Agent Model that Scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2
MiniMax has officially open-sourced MiniMax M2.7, making the model weights publicly available on Hugging Face. Originally announced on March 18, 2026, MiniMax M2.7 is the MiniMax’s most capable open-source model…
Walmart-owned Flipkart, Amazon are squeezing India’s quick commerce startups
Flipkart’s ongoing expansion beyond major cities and heavy discounting is raising risks for India’s quick commerce startups, analysts say.
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-450M: a 450M-Parameter Vision-Language Model with Bounding Box Prediction, Multilingual Support, and Sub-250ms Edge Inference
Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box prediction, improved instruction following, expanded multilingual understanding, and function calling…