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India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch; plus, ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
Oct 8, 202611 min
How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’; plus, how AI decision models could change content moderation
Oct 7, 20266 min
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU; plus, Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
Oct 6, 20267 min
Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’; plus, Amazon responds to data center backlash
Oct 5, 20268 min
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president; plus, Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’
Oct 2, 20267 min
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach; BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is cheaper
Oct 1, 20266 min
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
Sep 30, 20267 min
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents; plus, the AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
Sep 29, 20268 min
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge; plus, Meta opens early access, and Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Sep 28, 20267 min
Muse Charm is tapping into a trend; Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack
Sep 25, 202611 min
Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
Sep 24, 20267 min
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence; plus, Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Sep 23, 20267 min
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping; plus, Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle
Sep 22, 20268 min
OpenAI forms math advisory group; Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch; plus, the Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
Sep 21, 20268 min
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history'; plus, Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
Sep 18, 202611 min
AI labs want in-house auditors — but maybe they should shut the front door first
Sep 17, 20268 min
AI agents now have a place to snitch; also, US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan
Sep 16, 20267 min
Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans ... plus a Volkswagen Electric Prototype and the new ClickFix attacks
Sep 15, 202611 min
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards; plus, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
Sep 14, 20265 min
Anthropic revealed rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you; plus, AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
Sep 11, 202611 min
Shiny new iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models; plus, DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku deal
Sep 10, 20266 min
‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
Sep 9, 20267 min
Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government; plus, a hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it
Sep 9, 20265 min
A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride
Sep 8, 20265 min
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge; plus, the sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
Sep 7, 202612 min
Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
Sep 6, 20262 min
Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
Sep 5, 20262 min
MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
Sep 4, 202610 min
Open AI’s Astra model is very good at breaking into computer systems; Uber is laying off 3300; plus Norway considering ban on ‘pervert glasses’
Sep 3, 20266 min
If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?;plus, Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns
Sep 2, 20267 min
The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok; FTC accused Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme,' plus, Kalshi banned George Santos for life
Sep 1, 20268 min
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem; plus, Caterpillar is bringing what it learned from automating mining to AI implementation
Aug 31, 202610 min
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Aug 28, 20269 min
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet
Aug 27, 20267 min
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale; plus, Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
Aug 26, 20266 min
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns; plus, Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired
Aug 25, 20268 min
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? Plus, is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
Aug 24, 20268 min
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
Aug 21, 20266 min
US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI
Aug 20, 20265 min
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach; plus, Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
Aug 19, 20267 min
WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators, Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, and Amazon is destroying rare texts to train AI
Aug 18, 20267 min
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’; plus, a Tennessee woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
Aug 17, 20266 min
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Aug 14, 20269 min
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
Aug 13, 20267 min
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models; plus, as AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
Aug 12, 20267 min
Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision; Claude Code’s auto mode will be on by default
Aug 11, 20265 min
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
Aug 10, 20269 min
Ford needs another Taurus, and the $30K Fathom EV pickup isn’t it; plus, China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries
Aug 7, 20268 min
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales; plus, Zoox will begin charging for robotaxi rides in Vegas; and, Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
Aug 6, 20269 min
Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate; plus, Bending Spoons buying Airtable for $1.28B
Aug 5, 20267 min