Cybersecurity researchers report that safety guardrails from OpenAI and Anthropic are preventing legitimate offensive security work to find unknown vulnerabilities and develop exploit tools, according…
Moonshot AI's launch of its Kimi model has reignited debates in Washington, D.C., where OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly lobbied regulators over concerns about open Chinese AI models, according to…
Public libraries in Bangor, Maine and South Philadelphia are running 'Avoiding AI' workshops that teach attendees how to disable Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini, email assistants, and browser-integr…
Apple filed a 41-page federal lawsuit on July 10 accusing OpenAI of running a systematic trade secret theft campaign, alleging that OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer Tang Yew Tan directed job candidates…
On July 16, Hugging Face disclosed that an autonomous AI agent had compromised part of its production infrastructure, and on July 21, OpenAI confirmed the attacker was a combination of its own models,…
Global venture funding hit a record ~$300 billion in Q1 2026, but 65% of that went to just four AI companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — which together raised $188 billion, according to Crun…
Librarians Charlie Bailey in Philadelphia and Hannah Cyrus in Maine are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops that teach people how to disable AI features like Apple Intelligence and Gemini on their d…
A fallen power line in Northern Virginia exposed how AI data centers struggle to respond to grid disruptions, according to a TechCrunch analysis. The incident highlights the need for better backup sys…
Meta is testing an AI app called StoryKit that generates personalized bedtime stories for children, allowing parents to create characters, settings, and moral lessons in seconds. The app, currently in…
Nozomio, a five-person AI developer-tools startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, has pivoted from a failed coding agent to a context-infrastructure product called Nia that supplies other agents …
OpenAI launched Micro, a $230 customizable keypad built to pair with ChatGPT, developed with keyboard designer Work Louder. The device features six agent keys and six command keys for controlling Chat…
Prentis, an AI research lab co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is seeking $100 million at a $1 billion valuation for computer-use agents that automate routine office work, accor…
Google Gemini reached 750 million monthly active users as of February 2026, positioning it to approach a billion-user product milestone, according to TechCrunch and CIO coverage. The scale places Gemi…
Nvidia, Mistral, and other AI companies are lobbying U.S. policymakers to avoid sweeping restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI capabilities and alleged mo…
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped, but a closer look at the data suggests the real problem is how agents are tested. Scale AI found frontie…
AI guardrails designed to prevent models from helping hackers are blocking offensive-security researchers from conducting proof-of-concept development and exploit validation needed to assess real thre…
Meta has left RE100, ending a membership that began in 2016, as the company finances gigawatts of new natural gas generation for its AI data centers. Meta confirmed the departure to TechCrunch on July…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reported on June 3 that 57.4% of HTTP requests to web content on Cloudflare Radar are now automated, surpassing human traffic earlier than the expected 2027 threshold. Th…
Patreon laid off about 20% of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, on July 23, 2026, with CEO Jack Conte citing AI as the forcing function in a memo to staff. Affected employees will receive 16 wee…
Anthropic on Thursday upgraded its Claude voice mode to let users choose between the Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models, defaulting to the fastest version of the model last used in text chat. The update, r…