AI vendors promote their enterprise products as if they’re turnkey solutions, but the chances are low that AI agents will hit the ground running right away. Unless you put in the effort to train a model on the specifics of your business, it’s unlikely to understand how your company, for example, defines revenue or knows who is allowed to see which file. That’s part of the reason…
Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
June 11, 2026
AI startup Decart on Wednesday unveiled Oasis 3, its latest interactive world model that can generate photorealistic driving environments in real time, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The model is currently available via API.
The startup is initially targeting…
As tech companies race to secure the computing power needed to train and deploy AI systems, Meta is making its first AI infrastructure bet in India, striking a data center partnership with conglomerate Reliance Industries in a market that is rapidly emerging as a hub for AI…
If you’ve been scrolling social media lately, you’ve probably seen the ‘pixel stretch trend’ all over your feed. If you don’t recognize it by name, this trend does exactly what it suggests: it stretches a slice of pixels from a photograph to create a dynamic sense of motion – and even leading lines.
This isn’t the first time the pixel stretch trend has done…
Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) announced it has begun rolling out an over-the-air software update that brings hands-free highway driving to the Gravity SUV in North America.
Lucid first promised hands-free driving for its vehicles well over a year ago, but the feature’s actual…
Rivian flew us out to beautiful Park City, Utah, to get a first test of the R2, its $45,000 “bet-the-company” mass market SUV that it has promised for years. Today it begins delivering these vehicles, and I can say unequivocally after driving a performance variant for 5…
Gazelle has unveiled a completely redesigned Ultimate platform in North America, giving riders a faster take on the company’s signature Dutch-inspired comfort and refinement.
The new Ultimate C380+ 2.0 and Ultimate T11+ are both Class 3 e-bikes capable of reaching speeds up to 28 mph (45 km/h), but Gazelle says the focus wasn’t simply on making a faster bike. Instead, the company aimed to…
ROME — The head of Italian defense firm Leonardo has welcomed the possibility of Germany entering the Italo-Japanese-UK GCAP fighter program but has warned that adding a new member could push back the delivery date.
Leonardo CEO Lorenzo Mariani spoke on Wednesday after the…
BERLIN — Germany’s ILA air show opened on Wednesday under the twin shadows of the Iran war and the collapse this week of a flagship Franco-German fighter jet project, clouding what is meant to be one of Europe’s premier aerospace showcases.
The Berlin event, which…
NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — The United States has been selling advanced weapons to Taiwan for years, with large American contractors churning out more of the higher-end equipment than the island could ever produce alone for its defense against its military rival China.
Now Taiwan, an all-purpose manufacturing hub since the 1980s with an emphasis on high-tech hardware, is positioning to sell…