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TechCrunch’s Equity crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode! Hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan were joined by Build Mode host Isabelle Johannessen to dissect the year’s biggest tech developments, from mega AI funding rounds that defied expectations to the rise of “physical AI,” and make their calls for 2026.  The group …

I was working on a script the other day, and it was driving me nuts. It worked, sure, but it was just… slow. Really slow. I had that feeling that this could be so much faster if I could figure out where the hold-up was. My first thought was to start tweaking things. I could optimise the data loading. Or …

Nvidia has struck a non-exclusive licensing agreement with AI chip competitor Groq. As part of the deal, Nvidia will hire Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra, and other employees. CNBC reported that Nvidia is acquiring assets from Groq for $20 billion; Nvidia told TechCrunch that this is not an acquisition of the company and did not comment on the …

The excitement for the European startup market was hard to ignore at the annual Slush conference in Helsinki last month. But the actual data on the state of the region’s venture market shows a different reality. The upshot: The European market has not recovered from the global venture capital reset that occurred in 2022 and 2023. But there is evidence …

we all do naturally and regularly. In our personal lives, we often keep to-do lists to organise holidays, errands, and everything in between.  At work, we rely on task trackers and project plans to keep teams aligned. For developers, it is also common to leave TODO comments in the code as reminders for future changes. Unsurprisingly, LLM agents also benefit …

For the last couple of years, a lot of the conversation around AI has revolved around a single, deceptively simple question: Which model is the best? But the next question was always, the best for what?  The best for reasoning? Writing? Coding? Or maybe it’s the best for images, audio, or video? That framing made sense when the technology was …

to Building an Overengineered Retrieval System. That one was about building the entire system. This one is about doing the evals for it. In the previous article, I went through different parts of a RAG pipeline: chunking the data properly, query optimization, retrieval (semantic, BM25, or hybrid search), re-ranking, expanding chunks to neighbors, building the context, and then generation with …

Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the RAISE Act, positioning New York as the second U.S. state to enact major AI safety legislation. State lawmakers passed RAISE Act in June, but following lobbying from the tech industry, Hochul proposed changes to scale the bill back. The New York Times reports that Hochul ultimately agreed to sign the original bill, while lawmakers …

For 18 days, we have explored most of the core machine learning models, organized into three major families: distance- and density-based models, tree- or rule-based models, and weight-based models. Up to this point, each article focused on a single model, trained on its own. Ensemble learning changes this perspective completely. It is not a standalone model. Instead, it is a …

Neural Network Regressor, we now move to the classifier version. From a mathematical point of view, the two models are very similar. In fact, they differ mainly by the interpretation of the output and the choice of the loss function. However, this classifier version is where intuition usually becomes much stronger. In practice, neural networks are used far more often …