OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | AI News

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months....

Building abundant intelligence | AI News

A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful....

Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human | AI News

The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test....

Univé builds an AI-ready workforce | AI News

See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to tra...

Advancing responsible AI across Europe | AI News

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as ...

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests | AI News

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents...

How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime | AI News

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of s...

Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact | AI News

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns. ...

AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares | AI News

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play....

Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host | AI News

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind....

Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label | AI News

A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, casting doubt on th...

Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag | AI News

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price. ...

Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI | AI News

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of ...

LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’ | AI News

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing ...

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 | AI News

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale....

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M | AI News

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environ...

Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming | AI News

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more n...

Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack | AI News

British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers....

Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession | AI News

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineer...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come  | AI News

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade. ...

In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable | AI News

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFace has nothing to do with AI, ...

Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom | AI News

The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’...

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack | AI News

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue ...

Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever | AI News

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth...

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years | AI News

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price....

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag | AI News

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about...

Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents | AI News

On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents,...

How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark | AI News

How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction....

Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  | AI News

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for...

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI | AI News

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI....

How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency | AI News

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar....

The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor | AI News

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.) ...

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | AI News

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever. ...

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers | AI News

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and d...

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners | AI News

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance sche...

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls | AI News

The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents....

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it | AI News

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI im...

The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI | AI News

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at ma...

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents | AI News

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year. ...

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight | AI News

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots....

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea | AI News

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself....

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate | AI News

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."...

Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI | AI News

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in gen...

Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more | AI News

We’re announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents....

Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid | AI News

The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year....

Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises | AI News

Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates a...

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon | AI News

Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date....

5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world | AI News

It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of your time offline whether you want to book concert ticke...

5 ways to host the ultimate dinner party with Google Search | AI News

These AI features can help you craft a menu, design a tablescape, and handle other party-planning tasks....

Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix  | AI News

Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at...

The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia