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Flet 1.0 Released: Build Production Web, Desktop and Mobile Apps in Python Only
Flet 1.0 shipped on September 15, 2026, and the team now calls the framework ready for production apps. We look at what changed: a layered CI suite that drives packaged apps on real devices, bundled Python 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14,…
You too Google! Google Confirms Gemini Breached 3 Companies in AI Security Tests
Google says Gemini accessed 3 real companies in May by guessing a password and reusing credentials from a public repository. Irregular told 4 labs in late July. Google spoke on September 18, after the WSJ asked. The misconfiguration is fixable.…
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday…
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions.
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once. Its research license bars commercial use, which requires a separate…
Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background
Tencent's Gander processes speech, images, and text while handling tasks in the background. A "cerebellum" keeps the conversation going, while a swappable "brain" searches files, writes code, or tackles other complex work. Users can interrupt or change the task mid-conversation.…
Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the…
Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the…