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EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists
Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
Jul 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage
MeetingTV wants to see the evidence
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Companies that add more AI also add more people
But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack
Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
Jul 2, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI …
Jul 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target
Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.
Jul 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
Jul 2, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying …
Jul 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.
Jul 2, 2026
The Verge
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin…
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
Jul 2, 2026
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Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.
Jul 2, 2026
The Register
Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI
Risk factors galore
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy
Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied
'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models
Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
Jul 1, 2026
Wired
You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly
Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.
Jul 1, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
Jul 1, 2026
The Register
Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
Jul 1, 2026
Ars Technica
After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release
US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.
Jul 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.
Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll…
Jul 1, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
Jul 1, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
Jul 1, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Clou…
Jul 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an ev…
Jul 1, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January…
Jul 1, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.
Jul 1, 2026
The Verge
Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access W…
Jul 1, 2026
Wired
The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models
The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals.
Jun 30, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump lifts limits on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models
The action could resolve weeks of drama that had cut off widespread access to two of the U.S. tech company's most advanced AI products.
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out
Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist
Jun 30, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product
At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way…
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM
With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show
SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings
Jun 30, 2026
Ars Technica
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
Jun 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
Jun 30, 2026
Ars Technica
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet
They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.
Jun 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
Jun 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
Jun 30, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution
DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg
Jun 30, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use
X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.
Jun 30, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
Jun 30, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots”
In March 2021, a group of four linguists and computer scientists published their now legendary paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜” The paper received signi…
Jun 30, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: AI “coworkers” and stratospheric internet
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming in to work t…
Jun 30, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other
OKX is bringing together payments, identity and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.
Jun 30, 2026
The Register
South Korea’s hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band
Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse
Jun 30, 2026