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Anthropic said it “turned off live internet access” for “all our internal evaluations” until further notice.

Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.

TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

“The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about,” said founder Sara Tashakorinia.

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access … Read more

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

“When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us,” Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. “And we are wired to care for it in return.”

The name change is enough for Germany’s transport minister to start advocating for Europe-wide adoption of the driver assistance software.

Orkut’s founder is now taking aim at algorithms and AI-generated content.

Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.

Automattic’s interim chief financial officer Jeremy Klaperman has left the company less than a month after taking the role, TechCrunch has learned. Sources say his departure followed a demotion back to his previous position, marking another executive exit amid the organization’s leadership turmoil.

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Flock would not say if CEO Garrett Langley would take a pay cut following the reduction in workforce.

Xona’s precision timing and navigation service will enter beta testing after SpaceX launches six satellites designed by the company.

On Thursday, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD’s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation’s top science prize.

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder’s desk.

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

A fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to your TV screen on November 19.

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he’s more than just a Hollywood star.

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.

It had previously been reported that the AI lab’s annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it’s a whole lot less than that.

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.

Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served time in federal prison for securities violations, has launched Commissary Club, a startup that uses AI to help people leaving prison find jobs, housing, community and even dates.

Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.

Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and only call in backup when something looks fishy.

The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.

The company launched technology.spotify.com, a new site that will make its internal tech available to outsiders.