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Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
In Brief Posted: 1:39 PM PDT · September 19, 2026 Image Credits:Anthony Ha / TechCrunch Anthony Ha Flock…
Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force
President Donald Trump has responded in characteristic fashion to the recent debate around AI safety — by…
Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
In Brief Posted: 10:30 AM PDT · September 19, 2026 Image Credits:Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto / Getty Images…
AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI…
To err is human!
To err is human! Whoops!Azeem AzharSep 19, 2026713ShareHi everyone, Sorry. I accidentally sent Sunday’s…
🔮 AI politics & the future of growth ++ #602
Hi all, The past ten days have felt like the AI pot finally boiled over. It’s a complicated and confusing…
Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now.
Our current ticket pricing window for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends next Friday, Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.…
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and,…
🚨 AI doesn’t need a mind to run amok
On a Wednesday evening, 2 November 1988, a 23-year-old graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan…
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users’ spam…
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production…
A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI
Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture…
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
Anthropic has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it can use its AI models to run physical experiments,…
AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
Military aircraft were already in the air this spring when U.S. officials made an alarming discovery: The…
Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Dario Amodei’s plans to put third-party safety evaluators inside AI labs are taking shape: Anthropic said…
Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause
On Wednesday evening, Scottish Parliament passed a pause on new data centres in Scotland! This is not as good…
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it…
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Large Rounds For AI Infrastructure, Space Tech And Investment Management Lead
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus…
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
In Brief Posted: 10:59 AM PDT · September 18, 2026 Image Credits:Yujie Chen / Getty Images Lucas Ropek…
Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This…
Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario…
Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario…
Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops
Chinese AI startup Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to…