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ModelsMay 24, 2026TechCrunch AI
I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

ModelsMay 24, 2026TechCrunch AI
Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

ModelsMay 20, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Presentation: The AI Gateway: Scaling Centralized Inference Across Decentralized Teams

Meryem Arik discusses why modern engineering teams face "inference chaos" and how AI model gateways provide a critical control layer. She explains the balance between empowering decentralized teams to choose the best models and maintaining centralized oversight for security, RBAC, and cost control. Explore open-source

ModelsMay 21, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Presentation: The Ironies of A^2 I^2

J. Paul Reed discusses the "ironies of automation" - a 40 years-old concept now amplified by AI. He explains how advanced systems often make the human operator more crucial, not less, while simultaneously degrading the skills needed to intervene. Sharing real-world stories of "AI-fueled" incidents, he shares why over-r

ModelsMay 21, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Six Sessions at QCon AI Boston 2026 That Take Productionizing AI Seriously

QCon AI Boston 2026 is close to selling out. Six sessions where speakers engage directly with the gap between AI working in a demo and AI working in production. By Artenisa Chatziou

ModelsMay 22, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Uber Improves Restaurant Recommendations Using Real-Time Signals and Listwise Ranking

Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness from 24 hours to seconds, and shifts from pointwise scoring to listwi

ModelsMay 21, 2026TechCrunch AI
With aluminum prices up 20%, recycling startups bet on AI to cash in

Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.

ModelsMay 21, 2026TechCrunch AI
Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

ModelsMay 21, 2026TechCrunch AI
Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.

ModelsMay 21, 2026TechCrunch AI
Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

ModelsMay 22, 2026TechCrunch AI
You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’

After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.

ModelsMay 22, 2026TechCrunch AI
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.

ModelsMay 22, 2026TechCrunch AI
AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.

ModelsMay 23, 2026TechCrunch AI
Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans

IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.

ModelsMay 24, 2026Anthropic Newsroom
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.

ModelsMay 11, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Netflix Introduces ‘Model Lifecycle Graph’ to Scale Enterprise Machine Learning

Netflix has developed a graph-based architecture for managing machine learning systems, called the Model Lifecycle Graph. This system maps interconnections bet

ModelsMay 14, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Anthropic Traces Six Weeks of Claude Code Quality Complaints to Three Overlapping Product Changes

Anthropic published a postmortem tracing six weeks of Claude Code quality complaints to three overlapping product-layer changes: a reasoning ef

ModelsMay 15, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Presentation: Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems

Julie Qiu explains how AI serves as a "thinking partner" for engineering leaders. She discusses five distinct roles - Archaeologist, Experimenter, Critic

ModelsMay 14, 2026TechCrunch AI
Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts

"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers," Campbell Brown said at StrictlyVC.

ModelsMay 14, 2026TechCrunch AI
Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

ModelsMay 14, 2026TechCrunch AI
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

ModelsMay 14, 2026TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned

OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhone maker.

ModelsMay 14, 2026TechCrunch AI
OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone

The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.

ModelsMay 15, 2026TechCrunch AI
Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI

AI video-generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.

ModelsMay 15, 2026TechCrunch AI
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.

ModelsMay 15, 2026TechCrunch AI
Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.

ModelsMay 15, 2026TechCrunch AI
The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning

The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with&#

ModelsMay 16, 2026TechCrunch AI
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

ModelsMay 16, 2026TechCrunch AI
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.