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.
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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.
Yann LeCun’s New AI Paper Argues AGI Is Misdefined and Introduces Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence (SAI) Instead
What if the AI industry is optimizing for a goal that cannot be clearly defined or reliably measured? That is the central argument of a new paper by Yann LeCun,…
How to Build Progress Monitoring Using Advanced tqdm for Async, Parallel, Pandas, Logging, and High-Performance Workflows
In this tutorial, we explore tqdm in depth and demonstrate how we build powerful, real-time progress tracking into modern Python workflows. We begin with nested progress bars and manual progress…