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Tiny “talking” robots form shape-shifting swarms that heal themselves Microrobots modeled in simulations communicate via sound to form ‘acoustic swarms’ and move collectively. Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international team of scientists have taken a page from nature's playbook to model micro-sized robots […]

When OpenAI launchedGPT-5last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI hoped GPT-5 would act as a sort of “one size fits all” AI model with a router that would automatically decide how to best answer user questions. The company said this unified approach would eliminate the need for users to

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now OpenAI is once again making GPT-4o — the large language model (LLM) that powered ChatGPT before last week’s launch of GPT-5 — a default option for all paying users, that

Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sourcestold the Financial Times. The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch that talks

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Russia’sAPT28is actively deploying LLM-powered malware against Ukraine, while underground platforms are selling the same capabilities to anyone for $250 per month. Last month,Ukraine’s CERT-UAdocumentedLAMEHUG, the first confirmed deployment of LLM-powered

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Liquid AI hasreleased LFM2-VL, a new generation of vision-language foundation modelsdesigned for efficient deployment across a wide range of hardware —from smartphones and laptops to wearables and embedded systems. The

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Today, many eyes are onOpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman‘songoing public feudwith Elon Muskon the latter’s social network, X. But Altman’s recent statements regarding the ongoingrolloutof his company’s latest and

Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in 2025 so far, according to new data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firmAppfigures. This subsection of the AI market on mobile has now generated

In early 2023, David Petrou, a distinguished engineer and a founding member of bothGoogle Gogglesand Google Glass, made a surprising move. After more than 17 years at the company, he departed to launch his own startup. “I was seeing how fast technology was changing, and I felt there are certain ideas that are best explored

In a moonshot move, AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer,Reuters reportedand Perplexity has confirmed to TechCrunch. Perplexity tells TC the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source and continue to invest in it. Perplexity’s