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AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders expected to be at Disrupt, this AI Stage fireside chat and presentation is a must-attend session. The future of AI isn’t more data — it’s better retrieval As AI becomes more embedded in every workflow, the real differentiator isn’t just the algorithm — it’s…

Cognition AI, the startup behind AI coding agent Devin, has hit a $10.2 billion valuation after raising $400 million, marking a jump from the company’s $4 billion valuation earlier this year, reports Bloomberg.  Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. In July, Cognition acquired AI coding startup Windsurf, just days after Google poached the startup’s CEO, co-founder, and research leads. The raise comes after serious growth for Cognition’s core product. The startup’s annual recurring revenue from Devin has climbed…

Google is expanding AI Mode — its AI-powered Search experience — to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world, after being limited to English for over six months. On Monday, Google announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows last month’s rollout of the AI-powered experience to 180 new markets in English, after initially launching in the U.S. and later expanding to the U.K. and India. “With this expansion, more people can now use AI Mode to ask complex questions in their preferred language, while exploring the…

Rising temperatures in the United States are prompting people to reach for products with added sugar, like sodas and ice cream, according to a new study.In the study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, researchers used household food purchase data from 2004 to 2019 in the U.S. to determine how monthly average temperature affected daily added sugar consumption. They found consumption steeply increased in temperatures between 12 and 30 degrees Celsius, or about 54 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit, with a marked spike in consumption when temperatures exceeded 20 degrees Celsius, or 68 degrees Fahrenheit.The biggest driver of sugar consumption came…

By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) -New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International Space Station has revealed that space travel accelerates the aging of blood-forming stem cells crucial for blood and immune system health.The scientists in the NASA-funded study conducted real-time monitoring of stem cells from the bone marrow of individual donors to track the changes that unfolded during missions lasting 30 to 45 days in December 2021, July 2022, November 2022 and March 2023. They compared these samples to samples kept…

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens went back to the site of their most recent playoff agony — and once again showed why their seasons keep ending that way.Lamar Jackson flirted with a perfect passer rating and Derrick Henry ran for 169 yards and two touchdowns, but the Ravens are past the point where any of that matters. Yes, they moved the ball at will at times, rushing for 238 yards on the road against a Buffalo team that was in the AFC title game last year — but a late fumble by Henry undid much of his…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies star shortstop Trea Turner is out with a strained right hamstring that could sideline him until the postseason.Manager Rob Thomson said before Monday’s game against the New York Mets the MRI results were “better than expected” and that Turner’s injury wasn’t as severe as the strained left hamstring that sidelined him for six weeks last season.Turner left Sunday’s 5-4 loss to the Miami Marlins in the seventh inning because of the injury.Turner hit a solo homer in the sixth to narrow Philadelphia’s deficit to 4-2. When his turn came again in the seventh, Turner legged…

Apple’s AirPods are popular wireless earbuds, but they’re not the right fit for all shoppers. If you don’t own an iPhone or MacBook, you could get better value from other earbuds designed with Android phones in mind. Likewise, even if you do use an iPhone, there are some cheaper earbuds out there that perform a lot like AirPods. With that in mind, our reviewers tested dozens of headphones to find the best AirPods alternatives. The Beats Fit Pro earbuds are our top pick. Though not part of the AirPods lineup, these buds are also made by Apple and provide iPhone-friendly features…

Singer and musician Roger Blevins Jr. toured the country and world with his band, Mingo Fishtrap, for three decades – until he received a life-changing tongue cancer diagnosis in 2022.His wife, Valerie Blevins, said they both cried after receiving the news, “then we stopped crying and got down to business.”Surgeons removed most of Blevins’ tongue and used tissue from his thigh to reconstruct a flap, allowing him to eat and speak again.”So most of my tongue … is white. That’s all part of my leg. I don’t have control of that,” Blevins explained.He had to learn to speak again and…

On Monday, Anthropic announced an official endorsement of SB 53, a California bill from state senator Scott Wiener that would impose first-in-the-nation transparency requirements on the world’s largest AI model developers. Anthropic’s endorsement marks a rare and major win for SB 53, at a time when major tech groups like the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Chamber for Progress are lobbying against the bill. “While we believe that frontier AI safety is best addressed at the federal level instead of a patchwork of state regulations, powerful AI advancements won’t wait for consensus in Washington,” said Anthropic in a blog post.…