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Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
Companies without their own models or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself will be in trouble, Nadella says.
Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.
The deal means content will be integrated into the YouTube experience, allowing viewers to discover and watch Peacock content without leaving the platform.
The issue appears to have originated from Claudes share chat feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
Apple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from the App Store, challenging the companys longstanding claims that its app review process keeps users safe from scams.
Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.
Antares has raised $470 million to build small modular reactors 100 kW to 1 MW for U.S. Air Force bases.
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.
Googles AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the entire economy.
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity, and see what their friends are listening to in real time.
The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.
On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.
Forget YouTube videosfrontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.
As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company may also be wrestling with how to address consumer privacy concerns.
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
A running look in reverse chronological order at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law
An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.
At libraries around the country, Avoiding AI workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
Seller is a dedicated Marketplace app for people who list and sell items frequently.

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