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The companies didn’t disclose the deal amount but said that they will keep Pipecat open source. For the uninitiated, Pipecat is a framework that manages voice and video streams along with other pieces in the pipeline, like speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) models while reducing latency. Its maker, Daily, provides hosted infrastructure for voice and video calls of any kind. With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a

Founded by Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, Wabi originally focused on allowing anyone to build apps using prompts. Last month, however, the startup announced a pivot of sorts to become an AI messenger. The idea now is that the new Wabi — or Wabi 2.0, as it was called — could build the interfaces you need to get things done as part of its role as your personal AI agent. The company suggests Wabi could be used to build

Despite having no direct background in architecture, Elder and Mathur were troubled by a growing problem: Fewer buildings are constructed in the U.S. today than a few decades ago, as development costs have surged. “We’ve gone from dial-up internet to superintelligent AI, but our ability to build the physical world around us has actually decreased,” Mathur told TechCrunch. Believing AI can boost productivity across the architecture, engineering, and constru

The release comes as competition between open-weight AI developers like Mistral and closed-model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic heats up, with the former arguing that businesses and governments shouldn’t have to rely on outside AI companies for access to advanced capabilities. That argument may hold more weight in cybersecurity, where organizations want more control over their data and systems. Or, as Mistral’s CEO, Arthur Mensch, explained, AI should

Style Sketch then suggests outfit combinations built from your wardrobe matched to your style. Users can then try on the outfits on a “realistic model matched to your body shape and skin tone,” the app description reads. The app, which was first spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, is available in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand on iOS and Android. Meta did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. It’s unknown whether Meta plans to l

Rivian is now licensing elements of its AI voice assistant technology to Volkswagen Group as part of the broader joint venture, according to the company’s third-quarter investor presentation released Thursday. Rivian didn’t disclose the licensing fees, payment terms, or which Volkswagen vehicles will use the technology. However, the AI assistant, which recently rolled out to Rivian vehicles, could make its Volkswagen debut in the automaker’s low-cost EV ca

The move is designed to protect its data from AI scraping, allowing the company to instead forge lucrative licensing deals with model providers. But just as important, such a shift could help Reddit to increase its revenue even as it faces daily active user declines in its largest market, the U.S. Overall, Reddit’s global daily active users were flat quarter-over-quarter in Q3, reaching 130.3 million, while U.S. daily active users dropped from 53.2 million

“What we’re building at Amazon is unlike anything that’s ever been seen before. There has never been a business with a trillion dollars of annual revenue,” he said. However, before the cloud business gets there, Amazon is going to have to ramp up its capital expenditures to build out the infrastructure necessary to support that blossoming business. “We still expect 2026 cash capex of approximately $220 billion — the majority for AWS — and expect to spend m

“Humanism is a collection of beliefs about the human experience and how humans interact with the world,” Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, told TechCrunch. It centers on “human well-being and flourishing, both individually and collectively … and implores a person to try to improve both their well-being and their flourishing as well as the others around them.” As he watched AI grow more popular in daily life, Durman sought out the American Hum

The idea isn’t entirely new. Companies like Crusoe and Schneider Electric also sell prefabricated pods, but Runware says it can ship its pods faster. Flaviu Radulescu, co-founder and CEO of Runware, told TechCrunch that the company plans to scale production at its Romania-based factory to 30 megawatts of data center capacity per day by 2028, or nearly 1 gigawatt per month. That’s a whole lot of capacity: At that pace, Runware would produce roughly as much

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Xu mentioned that users are still predominantly placing orders through DoorDash’s app. However, the company wants to learn more about agentic use cases and develop a healthy relationship with third-party agent makers. He added that, in the future, there could be an opportunity for it to advertise within these agents. DoorDash has its own agents, including a text-to-order agent it launched in September, a CLI agent introduced in July, and a chatbot called A

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Tyler Shultz didn’t need to see “You Can See Everything” to make up his mind about Holmes. Shultz, whose first job out of college was at Theranos, was a key whistleblower who exposed the company’s dangerously inaccurate blood testing devices, which made their way into Walgreens stores and delivered faulty results to real patients. (Theranos reached a peak valuation of around $10 billion despite its technology never actually working — the company only used

No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark Manuel Uth Nov 5, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Analytics firm SemiAnalysis has released GDPx, a benchmark that tests AI agents on 206 tasks in realistic work environments and professional software over several hours. The scores are low. Claude Opus 5.5 leads the field with just 12 percent, followed by Google's significantly cheaper Gemini 4 Carbon

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 Baidu's AI development is still alive, but most of the work is on you. The Chinese company has released ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, an open foundation model that ships deliberately without fine-tuning or post-training. Developers are expected to decide for themselves where to take the model.

Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percent Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 Ask about this article… Search Google Deepmind is making its Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video-generation model generally available. The updated model creates clips up to 15 seconds long, supports conversational editing, and costs 30 percent less than its predecessor. Google says Gemini Om

OpenAIs GPT-6 Cyber can both break into systems and propose how to fix them Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Cyber, an AI model specifically trained to find security vulnerabilities, develop working exploits, and suggest patches. In targeted tests, GPT-6 Cyber found 81 previously unknown critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, which Mozilla h

ChatGPT now wants access to your bank account so it can tell you to stop ordering takeout Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian May 15, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context":

Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Anthropic lets Claude users connect their bank accounts and ask questions about their money. The new feature, called Personal Finance, gives Claude read-only access. It can't move, manage, or invest funds. The connection runs through Plaid, so Claude never sees a user's bank password. Users can br