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Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.
Aug 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.
Aug 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially…
Aug 22, 2026
The Register
Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst
Aug 22, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production Hollywood creatives are taking gig wor…
Aug 22, 2026
The Guardian Technology
It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimistic Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within…
Aug 22, 2026
Wired
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
Aug 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.
Aug 21, 2026
The Register
Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power
Aug 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
Aug 21, 2026
The Register
Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature
Aug 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
Aug 21, 2026
Semafor Technology
In a blog post Thursday, the Alphabet-owned company revealed that it designed a custom computer chip that quickly crunches raw data coming from a car’s cameras, lidar, and radar.
Aug 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
Aug 21, 2026
The Guardian Technology
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US gov…
Aug 21, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in North Ockendon would be incompatible with UK net zero targets A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon di…
Aug 21, 2026
The Register
Cloudy AI is Chinese giant’s ‘most certain’ path to growth as e-commerce slows
Aug 21, 2026
The Register
Policies and code of conduct breached
Aug 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
Aug 21, 2026
Simon Willison
Aug 20, 2026
The Register
Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud
Aug 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
Aug 20, 2026
Semafor Technology
A new Bloomberg analysis quantified the US’ narrowing lead over China in the AI race.
Aug 20, 2026
Ars Technica
FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.
Aug 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to …
Aug 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
Aug 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Aug 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
Aug 20, 2026
The Register
Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland
Aug 20, 2026
MIT Technology Review
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such …
Aug 20, 2026
404 Media
Nonconsensual AI images are getting much harder to spot.
Aug 20, 2026
404 Media
The six month moratorium on major electrical infrastructure projects is the latest tactic meant to delay the massive data center meant to support America’s nuclear weapons.
Aug 20, 2026
Ars Technica
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
Aug 20, 2026
The Register
Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision
Aug 20, 2026
The Register
Forrester warns of disruption to long-established tech activity
Aug 20, 2026
Rest of World
Observers scrutinize Meta founder’s argument about AI’s potential as an equalizer and enabler.
Aug 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Binance's Agent OS works with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Aug 20, 2026
The Register
Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first
Aug 20, 2026
The Register
Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside
Aug 20, 2026
The Register
House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago
Aug 19, 2026
The Register
'It is an active threat'
Aug 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
Aug 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
Aug 19, 2026
Semafor Technology
The industry “could use a little public relations help,” President Donald Trump acknowledged. But his party is moving with the tide.
Aug 19, 2026
The Register
And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal
Aug 19, 2026
Wired
During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.
Aug 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.
Aug 19, 2026
Semafor Technology
Higgsfield AI produced ‘The Cully Hill Boys’ with a $2 million budget, half of which went to AI tokens.
Aug 19, 2026
Semafor Technology
Several American AI startups have recently said they have used Chinese AI models in their workflows.
Aug 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenA…
Aug 19, 2026