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OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs
TechCrunch AI published: OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.
The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
TechCrunch AI published: The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal
TechCrunch AI published: What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
TechCrunch AI published: Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal
TechCrunch AI published: Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
MIT Technology Review published: This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…
Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support
TechCrunch AI published: Amazon is planning to increase the footprint of its new conversational AI assistant Alexa+ to India and is inviting users in the country to test out a Hindi-language version.
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
TechCrunch AI published: Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
TechCrunch AI published: On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
TechCrunch AI published: Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
TechCrunch AI published: "These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
TechCrunch AI published: So ... what's your In the Weights score?
From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone
TechCrunch AI published: For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys
MIT News AI published: MIT researchers’ approach captures subtle atomic patterns, improving predictions of material properties.
Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
TechCrunch AI published: Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is […]
The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care
TechCrunch AI published: Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is […]
Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home
TechCrunch AI published: Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.
The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan. Now she needs a “brand-new team”
TechCrunch AI published: Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
MIT Technology Review published: 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. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck…
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
MIT Technology Review published: The Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade. The details were thin, and many people were unconvinced. But Subquadratic has started to bring the receipts, sharing…