Garp https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead a new Creator Product division Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services Nvidia-backed Nscale keeps its biggest customer, Bytedance, out of its IPO filing Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory Google’s new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptions Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight of the month: China Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants Spotify’s is giving you the keys to its recommendation algorithm with US launch of ‘Taste Profile’ PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in Canada Inside Basecamp Research, the AI startup turning evolution into training data With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes to make robotics development easier **Know Who Spoke When: Build Real-Time, Multi-Speaker AI with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization** Anthropic engineer explains why Claude’s writing got worse although the model got smarter At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide OpenAI calls for international standards on AI that could improve itself Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut prices in half but barely move the needle on performance Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory Exhibit tables added: One last chance to showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible Toyota claims plan for 400,000 factory robots won’t replace human workers TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Aaron Edsinger brings Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 to life onstage NVIDIA Announces DSX Ready Qualification Program for Data Center Power and Cooling Hardware Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance Xiaomi’s affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics OpenAI says its internal model solved over 100 long-standing math problems after just a month of training OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics development, says NVIDIA New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs AMD beats Intel to the trillion-dollar club as stock price soars — firm joins Nvidia, Broadcom, and SK hynix for companies worth over $1 trillion Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem Contact tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured SoftBank to borrow over $11 billion in risky bonds for OpenAI stake Boston Dynamics opens Metaplant Application Center to train Atlas humanoid robots Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 About