Final 24 hours: Save up to $500 on your Disrupt 2026 pass

Final 24 hours: Save up to 0 on your Disrupt 2026 pass

[ad_1] This is it. The clock is running out. Tonight is your last chance to lock in savings of up to $500 for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. These discounts end at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here to secure yours with the limited-time offer. What Disrupt delivers year after year This year, Disrupt takes over San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13–15, bringing together 10,000 founders, VCs, operators, …

How Meta Turned Debugging Into a Product

How Meta Turned Debugging Into a Product

[ad_1] Same input. Same prompt. Different output. That’s the reality of testing AI agents that write code, and most teams are shipping without solving it. Nick Nisi from WorkOS tackled this by building eval systems for two AI tools: The post covers how to test against real project structures, score output that’s different every time, …

Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee

Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee

[ad_1] Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Statsig – ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Stop switching between different tools, and have them all in one place. • Sonar …

AI models are terrible at betting on soccer—especially xAI Grok

AI models are terrible at betting on soccer—especially xAI Grok

[ad_1] “Every frontier model we evaluated lost money over the season and many experienced ruin,” the authors of the paper concluded, with the AI “systematically underperforming humans” in this scenario. AI Model Mean ROI Best try Worst try Mean final bankroll Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 –11.0% –0.2% –18.8% £89,035 OpenAI GPT-5.4 –13.6% –4.1% –31.6% £86,365 …

LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench

LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench

[ad_1] Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Google paper suggests that LLMs simulate multiple personalities to answer questions:…The smarter we make language models, the more they tend towards building and manipulating rich, multi-agent world models…When …

Is the ‘Holy Grail of batteries’ finally ready to bless us with its presence?

Is the ‘Holy Grail of batteries’ finally ready to bless us with its presence?

[ad_1] Earlier this year, a relatively unknown startup from Finland made a startling announcement: It had finally solved solid-state batteries. Not only that, but Donut Lab, a spinoff of Verge Motorcycles, said that its solid-state battery — long considered the “Holy Grail of batteries” for their high-density, durable, fast-charging abilities — would go into production …

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Every fusion startup that has raised over 0M

[ad_1] Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction …