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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed…
OpenAI: GPT-6 is totally Artificial General Intelligence, guys
OpenAI has announced the latest very slight tweak of its chatbot models — GPT-6 Astra! [OpenAI] This is a…
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
In Brief Posted: 2:12 PM PDT · September 4, 2026 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe And Fluidstack Lead Multibillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Haul
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100…
What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company…
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an…
Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company…
Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
Google is integrating more of its services with AI, as the company announced that its personal agent, Gemini…
Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch…
A Startup General Counsel Knew What Corporate Lawyers Needed From AI. So She Built It.
Editor’s note: The following is the fifth profile in a series of articles about startup founders from…
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
When it first happens to you, you think you’re crazy. You wander into a cafe and look at a menu with a…
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
In Brief Posted: 5:48 PM PDT · September 3, 2026 Image Credits:Gerville / Getty Images Marina Temkin Crusoe…
UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work
The National Health Service in the UK is trying super hard to get doctors to use AI voice recognition…
AI, tools and transformation
The typical big American company today has hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of different pieces of software.…
Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
In Brief Posted: 12:36 PM PDT · September 3, 2026 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images…
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its…
Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions.…
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model
OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, its latest AI model and — according to the company — its most powerful…
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
For an AI assistant to become truly useful, it first has to know a lot about you. Ollie, a personal assistant…
Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
Scientists at Google DeepMind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather…
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.…
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together founders, startup operators,…
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses…
Your guide to astroturf fake anti-AI groups
Chatbots are popular — ChatGPT claims 900 million monthly users. But the AI bubble is also widely hated —…