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SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Jun 27, 2026

Politico Technology

Tech industry grapples with Trump’s AI about-faces

Silicon Valley billionaires backed Trump due to fears that Democrats would overregulate AI. Now the White House is restricting the release of new AI models — and tech lobbyists are cautiously searchin…

Jun 27, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

Jun 27, 2026

The Register

NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

Please state the nature of the medical emergency

Jun 27, 2026

The Register

It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns

Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war

Jun 27, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies

Over 100 companies and government agencies are reportedly authorized to use Mythos 5, including their non-American employees.

Jun 27, 2026

Politico Technology

Trump administration partially lifts Anthropic’s AI export ban

The release clears the way for a select group of companies and agencies to gain access to the company's Mythos 5 model. But a second advanced Anthropic model remains blocked.

Jun 26, 2026

Ars Technica

South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors"

Half-million strong military will train on drones as “universal combat tool.”

Jun 26, 2026

Ars Technica

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

Jun 26, 2026

The Register

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing

Jun 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global pa…

Jun 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

Jun 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with …

Jun 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

It’s not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

Jun 26, 2026

The Register

Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds

Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations

Jun 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia

Jun 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

Jun 25, 2026

The Register

AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI

Sorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready

Jun 25, 2026

The Verge

OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request

The Trump administration, apprehensive of potential security issues, has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its next big-ticket model, GPT-5.6. The Information reported that OpenAI CEO …

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

Jun 25, 2026

The Register

OpenAI says employees moving beyond chat to agents

Codex, it's not just for developers, really

Jun 25, 2026

Ars Technica

Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."

Jun 25, 2026

Ars Technica

Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack

Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

Jun 25, 2026

Politico Technology

Why a pro-AI super PAC’s election night win may prove short-lived

Leading the Future spent big to stop the author of New York state’s AI safety law from going to Congress. Then came the backlash.

Jun 25, 2026

Ars Technica

IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology

IBM’s nanostack transistors could boost chip performance or energy efficiency.

Jun 25, 2026

MIT Technology Review

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced i…

Jun 25, 2026

Politico Technology

$500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing

A new bipartisan group will work with corporate donors like Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft and Bank of America to retrain workers displaced by the AI boom.

Jun 25, 2026

The Register

The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure

PARTNER CONTENT: As agentic AI systems scale across cloud and datacenter environments, CPUs remain the control plane coordinating performance and efficiency.

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Ac…

Jun 25, 2026

The Register

Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI

Jun 24, 2026

Ars Technica

OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.

Jun 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.

Jun 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

Jun 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

Jun 24, 2026

The Register

Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop

Prompting less and automating more comes with a price

Jun 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI's inference systems.

Jun 24, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine

Summary RFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning a…

Jun 24, 2026

MIT Technology Review

The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstru…

Jun 24, 2026