Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI
Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.
Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.
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To stop automation waste, enterprises must deploy interaction infrastructure that physically governs how independent AI agents operate. AI agents now populate corporate networks, reasoning through tasks and executing decisions with increasing autonomy. Yet, when these independent actors attempt to coordinate work, exchange context, or operate across varied cloud environments, the interaction framework degrades quickly. Human operators find themselves acting as the manual glue between disconnected systems, managing fragile integrations while the rules dictating permissions and data sharing remain […]
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This $750 million investment signals Google Cloud’s intention to drive enterprise AI systems toward greater autonomy. Instead of just treating AI as a tool that helps out, they want it to run complex workflows independently. And by depending on their partners, Google Cloud is able to start widespread adoption pretty quickly. That ecosystem is not just big, it is incorporated into almost every industry you can think of. They already support over 330,000 AI setups and work closely […]
The launch of DeepSeek V4 ramps up the fast-paced global AI race, where accessibility now matters as much as raw performance. Back in January 2025, DeepSeek’s claim of building a competitive model for much less money challenged the idea that only big U.S. labs could lead in advanced AI. That changed a lot of minds in the industry. Since then, Chinese firms have put out dozens of open-source systems. These models accounted for about a third of global […]
if you’ve ever built an elegant, complex ML pipeline to solve something a 10-line prompt could’ve handled… this is for you. i’ve been thinking about what separates people who do useful research from people who do impressive-looking research. it’s almost always the problems you choose rather than raw technical skill. here’s the mental model i’ve landed on. every problem kind of follows these steps: find a clear problem people actually care about try the dumbest solution first. can […]
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystemthan the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App Store’s 30% cut is under pressure, the behind-the-scenes power Apple once […]
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss operating at scale in the age of AI.
Nothing’s new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.