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Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
TechCrunch AI / 10:58 PM
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
TechCrunch AI / 8:59 PM
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
TechCrunch AI / 8:57 PM
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
TechCrunch AI / 7:35 PM
Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
TechCrunch AI / 6:41 PM
An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, makes it land differently. On […]
TechCrunch AI / 5:54 PM
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
TechCrunch AI / 2:53 PM
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
TechCrunch AI / 2:17 PM
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
TechCrunch AI / 12:00 AM
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
TechCrunch AI / 5:36 PM
Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
TechCrunch AI / 3:13 PM
Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
TechCrunch AI / 2:18 PM
AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
TechCrunch AI / 1:00 PM
Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.
TechCrunch AI / 3:04 PM
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
TechCrunch AI / 8:47 PM
Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
TechCrunch AI / 6:05 PM
OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
TechCrunch AI / 8:13 PM
The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok
Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.
TechCrunch AI / 4:54 PM
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.
TechCrunch AI / 4:46 PM
Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
TechCrunch AI / 9:51 PM
Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.
TechCrunch AI / 8:59 PM
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.
TechCrunch AI / 8:57 PM
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
TechCrunch AI / 7:50 PM
Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.
TechCrunch AI / 10:25 PM
OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
TechCrunch AI / 9:43 PM
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
TechCrunch AI / 8:24 PM
Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
TechCrunch AI / 8:03 PM
Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
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