TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent? Kirsten Korosec 9:06 AM PDT · April 12, 2026 Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click…
TechCrunch is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it Cindy Zackney 9:38 AM PDT · April 10, 2026 TechCrunch is partnering with SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Asia’s largest global innovation conference, taking place April 27–29 at Tokyo Big Sight. And we’re not just showing up to cover it — our very…
Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare earth elements Tim De Chant 6:00 AM PDT · April 9, 2026 Rare earth elements might represent small slivers of the global metals market, but they’re big sticks on the geopolitical stage, where China wields its considerable heft as a bargaining chip during trade disputes….
Processing 200,000 tokens through a large language model is expensive and slow: the longer the context, the faster the costs spiral. Researchers at Tsinghua University and Z.ai have built a technique called IndexCache that cuts up to 75% of the redundant computation in sparse attention models, delivering up to 1.82x faster time-to-first-token and 1.48x faster…
Memory chip giant SK hynix could help end ‘RAMmageddon’ with blockbuster US IPO Kate Park 12:11 PM PDT · March 27, 2026 SK hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant already listed on the KOSPI, is laying the groundwork for a potential U.S. listing that could reportedly raise an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion….
Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. A page in Russian said: “Access to the…
The future of AI isn’t just agentic; it’s deep personalization. Rather than simple recommender systems that correlate user behavior to identify patterns and apply those to individual workflows, large language models (LLMs) and AI agents can analyze users directly to create deeply personalized experiences. It’s this kind of aggressive customization users are increasingly demanding —…
Large language models are running into limits in domains that require an understanding of the physical world — from robotics to autonomous driving to manufacturing. That constraint is pushing investors toward world models, with AMI Labs raising a $1.03 billion seed round shortly after World Labs secured $1 billion. Large language models (LLMs) excel at…
Memories.ai is building the visual memory layer for wearables and robotics Rebecca Szkutak 1:30 PM PDT · March 16, 2026 Shawn Shen believes that AI will need to remember what it sees in order to succeed in the physical world. Shen’s company Memories.ai is using Nvidia AI tools to build the infrastructure for wearables and robotics to…
Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks Rebecca Bellan 11:49 AM PDT · March 15, 2026 In the lead up to the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada last month, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar spoke to ChatGPT about her feelings of isolation and an increasing obsession with violence, according to court filings….
