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

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Aaron Edsinger brings Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 to life onstage | AI News

Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will bring Stretch 4 for a live demo on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register bef...

Exhibit tables added: One last chance to showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

We have reopened our exhibitor program for 1 more week. Book your exhibit table by September 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT and showcase your startup in front of...

4 days to save up to $200: Reason 2 of 5 to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, plus 50% off a second pass before prices increase on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register tod...

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | AI News

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania. ...

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall | AI News

The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will h...

Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again | AI News

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue....

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype  | AI News

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabi...

The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping | AI News

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people....

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems | AI News

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research....

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra | AI News

With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster....

Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket | AI News

5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass + 50% off a second one. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators at San Fra...

Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch | AI News

Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its ...

Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com | AI News

Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore....

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence | AI News

OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI r...

Building standards for the next phase of AI | AI News

OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety....

Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths | AI News

Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills....

With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete | AI News

Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s ...

Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Save up to $200...

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini | AI News

Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience....

From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Lean in on this Builders Stage session. Save up to $200 before Sep...

Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by Sept 25, 11:59 p.m....

How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory | AI News

Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work....

She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight | AI News

She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost.  It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez ...

How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall” | AI News

Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near govern...

4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall” | AI News

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US ...

The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? | AI News

When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a cha...

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...

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down? | AI News

On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down....

Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking | AI News

Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions...

ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok | AI News

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders ...

6 days left to get ahead at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 o...

Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts | AI News

Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff....

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...

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