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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring ...
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading ov...
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away....
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentago...
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role....
Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
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Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for...
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Googl...
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solut...
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find inform...
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”...
AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with l...
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the i...
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
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Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person c...
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
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OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers....
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its c...
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
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Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
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Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
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Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
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Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX
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Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
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PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
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OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
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Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
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