This $149 digital candle uses AI to accurately simulate a flickering flame
After engineering a flexible version of Tetris that could be wrapped around a magazine, Kevin Bates' latest creation is a digital candle that uses a custom AI model to accurately simulate the appearance of a flickering flame across a grid of LEDs. It's a…
Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying
The Anthropic S-1 seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you are the kind of person who wonders if Anthropic is doing its level best to build a machine god while convincing…
Apple finally combined a toaster and a refrigerator
For more than 15 years, Apple has had a pretty simple answer to the idea of a touchscreen MacBook: no. Yesterday, Apple finally decided to think different and announce one anyway. "You've gotta touch it to believe it," says Apple CEO John Ternus. He…
Who will you learn from in 6 days at TechCrunch Founder Summit? Meet the founders and investors taking the stages
Six days from now, TechCrunch Founder Summit brings experienced founders, investors, and operators to Boston on Nov. 4 to share the decisions, mistakes, pivots, and lessons that shaped their companies. Register before it starts for ticket savings and…
HubSpot Lost 80% Of Its Traffic – CMO Kipp Bodnar Explains Why Revenue Kept Growing via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
HubSpot's traffic collapse shows why SEOs need to measure revenue per visit, track AI referral conversions, and build audiences beyond Google. The post HubSpot Lost 80% Of Its Traffic – CMO Kipp Bodnar Explains Why Revenue Kept Growing appeared first…
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion
DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery thanks to Instacart's established grocery marketplace and retailer…
Google Recommends Using Custom 404 Error Pages via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google says missing pages aren't a ranking threat, but what visitors encounter after a 404 can matter to a business. The post Google Recommends Using Custom 404 Error Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another…
AI has come for Arizona’s water
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive…
Simplifying .NET toolchain installs with dotnetup
If you’ve experimented with Rust, you already know how simple it is to get a basic toolchain in place, with the simple rustup command-line tool. The same tool works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, building a consistent environment ...
