Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

“The reality is, when you’re optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance,” Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

The new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.

AI’s Next Bottleneck Isn’t Compute

The AI industry has been focused on answering, “Could the industry build enough compute fast enough to keep up with demand?” But this is the wrong question to be asking.

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google’s privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here’s how to opt out.

I spy
I spy

I’ve long argued that Hollywood has simultaneously set and ruined our expectations for smart glasses. But after binge-watching two seasons of Netflix’s A Man on the Inside, this is perhaps the first time I’ve seen Hollywood, perhaps inadvertently, illustrate the biggest cultural problem with smart glasses as they stand today. In a nutshell, Ted Danson […]

Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees

A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately 2.1 percent of its workforce. Most of the employees affected by today’s cuts are in Microsoft’s commercial sales business or the company’s Xbox division. […]

Tim Draper’s Elon Musk Playbook: SpaceX, Tesla and The $2 Trillion IPO

What did Tim Draper see in Elon Musk that others missed? The early Tesla and SpaceX backer on the $2 trillion IPO, xAI, and the coming AI shakeout.

Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.