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

Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force | AI News

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax....

Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies | AI News

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately....

Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes | AI News

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when...

Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now. | AI News

Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket...

AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable | AI News

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction....

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking | AI News

Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models. ...

Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint | AI News

OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people....

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos | AI News

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators....

Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI | AI News

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese....

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI | AI News

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations....

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments | AI News

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all....

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation | AI News

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns. ...

Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra | AI News

GPT-6 Astra helps Hex’s data agents turn answers into interactive visualizations that employees are proud to share....

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture? | AI News

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever. ...

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets | AI News

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own dat...

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers | AI News

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence. ...

Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households | AI News

Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fi...

Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how? | AI News

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to...

Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves? | AI News

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to...

Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters | AI News

The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology off...

Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops | AI News

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation....

Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. ...

Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer | AI News

Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf. ...

Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before Septembe...

Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI | AI News

Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to a...

The clock is ticking: Final 24 hours to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is today, September 18. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech l...

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team | AI News

We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers....

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google | AI News

Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW....

Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered. | AI News

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI re...

Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories” | AI News

The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion....

Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate | AI News

Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public...

How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT | AI News

Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it ...

The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI | AI News

A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies...

PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI | AI News

If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be....

The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI | AI News

Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years...

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior | AI News

OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge ...

Is the AI safety debate about safety or control? | AI News

Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety....

UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents | AI News

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics....

Introducing Astra for Law | AI News

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential cl...

Making global data easier to explore | AI News

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search....

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal | AI News

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, bui...

Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI | AI News

King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government. ...

Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire | AI News

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models....

Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI | AI News

Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting, and more in photos of their own rooms —...

Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia | AI News

Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap...

2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  | AI News

Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is September 18. Two days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, an...

Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls | AI News

People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions ...

Google, Nvidia and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers | AI News

A new coalition that includes Google, Nvidia, Anthropic and Emerald AI wants to find 100 GW of grid capacity for new data centers....

Operation “Date Bait”: AI-enabled scam targeting loveseekers | AI News

OpenAI banned accounts that very likely originated in Cambodia and used AI for scam outreach to Indonesian loveseekers, including translation and enga...

Operation “False Witness”: Fake recovery service impersonating authorities | AI News

OpenAI banned accounts that very likely originated in Cambodia and used AI to pose as recovery services, law firms, and authorities targeting people a...

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

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