Ethics & Regulation
The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
The Trump administration is debating policy approaches to address the growing capabilities of Chinese AI models. This...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
Startup Focused on Enterprise AI Security Valued at $1.2 billion
An enterprise AI security startup has raised funding and achieved a $1.2 billion valuation as cybersecurity concerns...
AI Business
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The Treasury Department has threatened sanctions following White House claims that Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to book authors in a record copyright settlement for downloading pirated works,...
The Decoder
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI's misconfiguration of an isolated testing environment and sandbox led to a security vulnerability that enabled...
TechCrunch AI
LLM
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
Chinese AI laboratories are offering open-source large language models as alternatives to restricted frontier models...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Travis Kalanick's robotics company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in funding led by a16z, with Uber also investing. The...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads
Yope, a private social networking app, raised $12.3 million in seed funding to build communities focused on real-world...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
Monday.com is reducing its workforce by 20% (approximately 630 employees) to streamline operations and focus on its AI...
TechCrunch AI
Research & Papers
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, a highly influential computer scientist known for his clear writing and...
MIT News AI
Startups & FundingAnthropic
Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for Claude in a deal worth up to $5 billion
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic, with Anthropic committing to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's MI450...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic and found that all of them...
The Decoder
LLM
Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
Cisco has released two small, open-source AI models specifically designed for cybersecurity that detect approximately...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, argues that Chinese AI models pose no inherent danger, contributing to ongoing debate...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & Regulation
Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
Substack has introduced a tool that estimates how much of a newsletter was written using AI, promoting transparency in...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & FundingOpenAI
OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI plans to spend $750 billion on infrastructure investments through 2030, an amount equivalent to Sweden's GDP....
TechCrunch AI
Startups & FundingMistral
Microsoft-Mistral Partnership is About Sovereign AI
Microsoft and Mistral have formed a strategic partnership that positions Mistral as Europe's leading AI vendor while...
AI Business
Startups & FundingOpenAI
OpenAI's "Project Camellia" in Georgia secures a massive 3.2-gigawatt power deal through 2032
OpenAI is establishing a data center in Georgia called 'Project Camellia' with a 3.2-gigawatt power deal through 2032....
The Decoder
AI Agents
Google Cloud, Nvidia Collaborate With German Startup for AI Robots
Microagi, a German startup, is collaborating with Google Cloud and Nvidia to develop task-specific embodied AI models...
AI Business