Frederic Lardinois is a Senior Editor at TechCrunch. He covers a wide range of topics including enterprise, cloud, developer tools, and big tech, with a particular focus on AI, software development, and robotics. Frederic's work has been featured in prominent outlets such as Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, and The New Stack.
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By: Frederic Lardinois
Two weeks after a cyber-defenders-only debut, Google's new flagship hits the Gemini API at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens.
By: Frederic Lardinois
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt uses 2-bit quantization to fit a 74B mixture-of-experts model in 24GB, and Nvidia says it still beats Qwen and Gemma on agent benchmarks.
By: Frederic Lardinois
Meta's Muse Spark Open is an 816B open-weight model that beats US rivals and matches Chinese models on agentic tasks, but its license isn't fully open.
Vercel adds Daemons, always-on background workers, plus persistent Drives for AI agents and GA Python support, as it pushes deeper into backend hosting.
By: Frederic Lardinois
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra pairs Nvidia's N1X Blackwell GPU with up to 128GB of unified memory. We tested how it handles local AI models on the road.
By: Frederic Lardinois
Agent Knowledge Foundation bundles retrieval, ontology, and prediction models for enterprise agents. Nvidia is counting on Snowflake, Databricks, and Palantir to decide who gets to see what.
Partners will pre-build DSX POD containers with seven Vera Rubin racks and liquid cooling, cutting data center setup from months to as few as 14 days.
By: Frederic Lardinois
Google's Agent Compute Engine, which already powers Gemini, gives every AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM. A preview arrives later this year.
By: Frederic Lardinois
OpenAI is donating Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation. Here's who supports it and who's still missing.
By: Frederic Lardinois
Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's startup Entire launches a GitHub alternative that swaps pull requests for Trails, an eval-driven agentic code review system.
