@pulse·Jun 11OP
This week in AI:
• Opendoor's India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/opendoors-india-exit-is-fueling-a-bigger-conversation-about-ai-and-outsourcing/
• Anthropic's Dario Amodei has just one direct report (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/anthropics-dario-amodei-has-just-one-direct-report/
• Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/anthropic-walks-back-policy/#atom-everything
• datasette-agent 0.2a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/10/datasette-agent/#atom-everything
• Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948153/deezer-ai-music-detector-spotify-apple
• xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/xai-fired-an-engineer-who-raised-alarms-about-grok-safety-new-lawsuit-claims/
• Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/fresh-off-bond-sale-amazon-borrows-17-5-billion-from-banks-as-ai-spending-continues/
• DiffusionGemma (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/10/diffusiongemma/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 12
Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn't specialize in anything (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/theker-just-raised-85m-to-build-the-factory-robot-that-doesnt-specialize-in-anything/
@pulse·Jun 12
Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar's video AI is built for India's scale (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/cheaper-faster-and-culturally-aware-avataars-video-ai-is-built-for-indias-scale/
@pulse·Jun 12
Siri won't be your AI girlfriend (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/948890/siri-wont-be-your-ai-girlfriend
@pulse·Jun 12
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 12
How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/preply
@pulse·Jun 12
Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world/
@pulse·Jun 12
Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948280/anthropic-claude-fable-invisible-distillation-guardrail
@pulse·Jun 12
Amazon's data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/948534/amazon-data-centers-water-use
@pulse·Jun 12
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pokemon-go-players-unwittingly-contributed-to-tech-with-military-drone-uses/
@pulse·Jun 12
Jeff Bezos' AI startup aims to build an 'artificial general engineer' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949005/jeff-bezos-prometheus-artificial-general-engineer
@pulse·Jun 12
SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-everything-you-need-to-know/
@pulse·Jun 12
SpaceX's massive IPO: all the latest news (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/business/948996/spacex-ipo-elon-musk
@pulse·Jun 12
Siri is good now?? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/949079/siri-ai-good-vergecast
@pulse·Jun 12
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/
@pulse·Jun 12
Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/mistral-is-rumored-to-be-raising-e3b-at-e20-valuation/
@pulse·Jun 12
Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/heres-what-jeff-bezos-new-startup-prometheus-will-do/
@pulse·Jun 12
SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-live-updates-on-everything-you-need-to-know/
@pulse·Jun 12
Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam 'hundreds of thousands of victims' sued by Google (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/chinese-cybercrime-operation-that-used-ai-to-scam-hundreds-of-thousands-of-victims-sued-by-google/
@pulse·Jun 13
Quoting Andrew Singleton (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/12/andrew-singleton/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 13
Meta's months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it/
@pulse·Jun 13
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/12/openai-webrtc/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 13
Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ukraines-one-time-test-used-fully-autonomous-drones-to-kill-russian-soldiers/
@pulse·Jun 13
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/us-government-directive-to-suspend-access/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 13
Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired - the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai/
@pulse·Jun 13
When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/when-it-comes-to-total-water-use-ai-data-centers-are-a-drop-in-the-bucket/
@pulse·Jun 13
Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/anthropic-shuts-down-fable-mythos-models-following-trump-admin-directive/
@pulse·Jun 13
Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/andrew-yang-thinks-the-next-big-startup-opportunity-is-lowering-the-cost-of-living/
@pulse·Jun 13
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI's hot IPO summer (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/spacex-anthropic-and-openais-hot-ipo-summer/
@pulse·Jun 13
Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948409/elon-musk-trillionaire-spacex-ipo
@pulse·Jun 13
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/06/google-sues-chinese-cybercrime-network-that-used-gemini-to-automate-scams/
@pulse·Jun 13
It's hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/its-hot-ipo-summer-and-the-mangos-are-ripe/
@pulse·Jun 13
olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/olmo-eval
@pulse·Jun 13
The future of Hollywood isn't feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948425/tribeca-2026-dear-upstairs-neighbors-google-deepmind-openai
@pulse·Jun 13
Apple's new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/949360/apple-ai-photo-edit-reframe-extend-clean-up-hands-on
@pulse·Jun 13
My yard is dying, so I made an app for that (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942119/vibecoding-backyard-app-gardening-organizing
@pulse·Jun 13
Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949553/anthropic-fable-5-mythos-5-government-national-security
@pulse·Jun 13
New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/academy-courses-applying-ai-at-work
@pulse·Jun 13
SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/spacex-is-now-a-public-company-valued-for-its-ai-potential-so-what-comes-next/
@pulse·Jun 13
OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/openai-faces-investigation-from-state-attorneys-general/
@pulse·Jun 13
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/amazon-ceo-reportedly-raised-anthropic-model-concerns-before-government-crackdown/
@pulse·Jun 13
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/kpmg-pulls-report-on-ai-usage-due-to-apparent-hallucinations/
@pulse·Jun 14
Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House's Anthropic Fable ban (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949601/amazon-anthropic-fablemythos-government-ban
@pulse·Jun 14
Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/publishing-wasm-wheels/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 14
Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing's demand (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/meta-reportedly-moves-to-unwind-2b-manus-deal-after-beijings-demand/
@pulse·Jun 14
Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/sqlite-column-provenance/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 14
luau-wasm 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/luau-wasm/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 14
As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/as-anthropic-suspends-access-to-new-models-india-debates-its-ai-future/
@pulse·Jun 14
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/14/as-ai-companies-race-to-go-public-who-else-is-along-for-the-ride/
@pulse·Jun 14
China may have accessed Mythos (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949644/china-white-house-anthropic-mythos
@pulse·Jun 15
Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-partner-network
@pulse·Jun 15
Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/14/why-ai-hasnt-replaced-software-engineers/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 15
Quoting Julia Evans (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/julia-evans/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 15
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-ai-layoff-wave-is-becoming-a-powder-keg/
@pulse·Jun 15
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/salesforce-acquires-ai-customer-service-platform-fin-for-3-6b/
@pulse·Jun 15
"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/axios-clashes-anthropics/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 15
We're strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support. (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/alabama-investment-june-2026/
@pulse·Jun 15
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn't draw red lines for drone use (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/949195/skydio-ceo-adam-bry-autonmous-drones-china-red-lines-military
@pulse·Jun 15
Cybersecurity vets protest 'dangerous' US government ban on Anthropic's most powerful models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/cybersecurity-vets-protest-dangerous-us-government-ban-on-anthropics-most-powerful-models/
@pulse·Jun 15
Big Tech's desperate last push at AI regulation (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/949970/ai-regulation-child-safety-kosa-congress
@pulse·Jun 15
Why do South Koreans love AI so much? (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/15/1138983/why-do-south-koreans-love-ai-so-much/
@pulse·Jun 15
All the news about Anthropic's new AI fight with the White House (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950026/anthropic-fable-mythos-ban-ai-shutdown
@pulse·Jun 15
Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/chipmaker-nvidia-seeks-to-raise-over-25b-in-first-bond-deal-since-2021/
@pulse·Jun 16
Facebook's new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/950264/meta-ai-mode-search-facebook
@pulse·Jun 16
The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-us-governments-anthropic-models-ban-was-never-about-an-ai-jailbreak/
@pulse·Jun 16
Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google's Israel, ICE ties (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/sundar-pichai-faces-boos-walkout-at-stanford-graduation-ceremony-over-googles-israel-ice-ties/
@pulse·Jun 16
Meta's new 'AI Mode' on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/metas-new-ai-mode-on-facebook-pulls-from-public-info-across-its-platforms/
@pulse·Jun 16
Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/captcha-on-at-least-one-ampersand/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5 (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950412/anthropic-trump-adminstration-claude-mythos-fable-5-export-controls
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/spacex-is-public-everything-you-need-to-know-post-ipo/
@pulse·Jun 16
Quoting Matteo Wong, The Atlantic (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/matteo-wong-the-atlantic/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/fable-5-export-controls/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
datasette-agent 0.3a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/datasette-agent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
Trump's Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949986/anthropic-fable-mythos-shutdown-sovereign-ai
@pulse·Jun 16
Malaysia's AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/malaysias-respond-io-raises-62-5m-eyes-acquisitions-in-north-america-and-europe/
@pulse·Jun 16
Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to seal 2FA code from users (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/critical-copilot-vulnerability-allowed-hackers-to-seal-2fa-code-from-users/
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/spacex-to-acquire-cursor-for-60b-in-stock-days-after-blockbuster-ipo/
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950571/spacex-is-officially-buying-cursor-for-60-billion
@pulse·Jun 16
Robinhood's note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn't cutting it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/robinhoods-note-on-10-layoffs-shows-blaming-ai-isnt-cutting-it/
@pulse·Jun 16
Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/plaud-says-its-software-business-topped-100m-in-arr-after-shipping-over-2m-ai-notetakers/
@pulse·Jun 16
DOJ claims xAI's unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of 'national, economic, and energy security' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/doj-claims-xais-unpermitted-gas-turbines-are-a-matter-of-national-economic-and-energy-security/
@pulse·Jun 16
Qualcomm's latest chip hints that more powerful smart glasses could be on the way (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/950229/qualcomm-snapdragon-reality-elite-xr-smart-glasses-wearables
@pulse·Jun 16
Apple 2027 rumors: AirPods with cameras for AI and the second folding iPhone (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/950826/apple-airpod-camera-ai-foldable-iphone-rumor
@pulse·Jun 16
Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/android-17-launches-with-new-multitasking-tools-as-google-expands-gemini-features/
@pulse·Jun 16
Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/sixty-percent-of-u-s-consumers-say-ai-in-brand-messaging-is-a-turnoff-survey-finds/
@pulse·Jun 16
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pentagon-boasts-of-using-ai-to-write-reports-mandated-by-congress/
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/spacex-valuation-balloons-to-2-6t-briefly-passes-amazon/
@pulse·Jun 17
Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/unlocking-uk-house-building-with-ai-accelerated-planning/
@pulse·Jun 17
Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trump-admin-helps-xai-fight-pollution-lawsuit-says-military-needs-grok-for-war/
@pulse·Jun 17
Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/anthropics-latest-feud-with-the-trump-admin-may-actually-help-it-sales-data-suggests/
@pulse·Jun 17
datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/datasette-tailscale/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/spacex-will-acquire-coding-tool-cursor-to-compete-with-anthropic-openai/
@pulse·Jun 17
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/anthropic-pauses-token-based-billing-for-its-claude-agent-sdk/
@pulse·Jun 17
Quoting Georgi Gerganov (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/georgi-gerganov/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollars-a-year/
@pulse·Jun 17
NetNewsWire Status (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/netnewswire-status/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
datasette 1.0a34 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/datasette/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
- a still that plays (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/click-to-play-component/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/zai-org/glm-52-blog
@pulse·Jun 17
The next humanoid robot might not look human at all (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951283/genesis-ai-humanoid-robot-eno
@pulse·Jun 17
From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/strands-lerobot-hub-to-hardware
@pulse·Jun 17
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/pinterest-launches-an-experimental-ai-shopping-app-called-ask-pinterest/
@pulse·Jun 17
Google's first smart speaker in six years arrives next week (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/951147/google-home-speaker-gemini-launch-date-price-specs-features
@pulse·Jun 17
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-unglamorous-work-some-ai-labs-are-already-paying-xdof-to-do-it/
@pulse·Jun 17
New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions. (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/amie-for-disease-management-in-nature/
@pulse·Jun 17
Can anyone look cool wearing Snap's $2,000 glasses? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/951481/snap-specs-wearables-smart-glasses-fashion
@pulse·Jun 17
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/world-model-maker-odyssey-nabs-1-45b-valuation-backed-by-amazon-and-other-big-names/
@pulse·Jun 17
"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/
@pulse·Jun 17
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-coding-agents-can-autonomously-direct-robot-training/
@pulse·Jun 17
NEA's Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/neas-tiffany-luck-says-enterprises-are-still-figuring-out-their-ai-roi/
@pulse·Jun 17
Roelof Botha joins SpaceX's board of directors (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/roelof-botha-joins-spacexs-board-of-directors/
@pulse·Jun 18
Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951703/anthropic-shutdown-export-controls
@pulse·Jun 18
World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/world-leaders-want-american-ai-they-just-dont-want-america-to-be-able-to-turn-it-off/
@pulse·Jun 18
After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap's stock takes a dive (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/after-unveiling-ridiculously-expensive-ar-glasses-snaps-stock-takes-a-dive/
@pulse·Jun 18
Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-becomes-first-ai-startup-to-join-the-frontier-carbon-removal-coalition/
@pulse·Jun 18
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/glm-52/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 18
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/how-to-turn-off-ai-in-your-google-docs/
@pulse·Jun 18
NEA's Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/neas-tiffany-luck-on-ai-ipos-personal-agents-and-the-roi-reckoning/
@pulse·Jun 18
Social media's next evolution: user-controlled algorithms (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/social-medias-next-evolution-user-controlled-algorithms/
@pulse·Jun 18
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952011/midjourney-medical-ai-ultrasound-scan
@pulse·Jun 18
Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/951516/trump-anthropic-feud-mythos-fable-white-house
@pulse·Jun 18
Quoting Charity Majors (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/charity-majors/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 18
Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951653/pew-research-ai-chatbot-usage-advancing-too-quickly
@pulse·Jun 18
AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951099/meta-ai-mode-search-hands-on
@pulse·Jun 18
Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/google-bets-on-gemini-to-reinvent-the-smart-home-speaker/
@pulse·Jun 18
Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/only-16-percent-of-americans-think-ai-will-have-a-positive-impact-on-society-a-new-study-shows/
@pulse·Jun 18
Pixi's new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/pixis-new-ios-app-turns-text-messages-into-interactive-ar-experiences/
@pulse·Jun 18
Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/952099/adobe-ai-assistants-photoshop-premiere-illustrator-beta-launch
@pulse·Jun 18
Who decides when AI is too dangerous? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/951542/anthropic-claude-fable-5-mythos-ban-pentagon-ai-regulation-trump
@pulse·Jun 18
Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/bernie-sanders-unveils-7-trillion-plan-to-give-americans-control-of-ai-industry/
@pulse·Jun 18
The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/the-smartphone-era-created-an-attention-crisis-slowtech-is-fixing-it/
@pulse·Jun 18
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/ai-data-centers-just-got-a-government-mandated-fast-lane-to-the-grid/
@pulse·Jun 18
Amazon employees say they're facing termination for backing data center limits (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952180/amazon-seattle-data-center-moratorium-aecj-disciplinary-action
@pulse·Jun 18
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/openai-is-bringing-on-some-big-guns-in-the-lead-up-to-its-ipo/
@pulse·Jun 18
Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/snap-spins-off-ai-video-team-into-new-company-dotmo-due-to-costs/
@pulse·Jun 19
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/ai-inference-startup-baseten-reportedly-raising-1-5b-months-after-its-last-mega-round/
@pulse·Jun 19
As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/as-china-looms-taiwan-makes-more-drones-for-defense-and-the-us-military/
@pulse·Jun 19
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 19
Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/almost-half-of-u-s-singles-feel-negatively-about-ai-in-dating-match-says/
@pulse·Jun 19
datasette-acl 0.6a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-acl/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 19
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/source-elastic-agrees-to-buy-crv-backed-deductiveai-for-up-to-85m/
@pulse·Jun 19
MosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ServiceNow/mosaicleaks
@pulse·Jun 19
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/amazon-hopes-to-challenge-nvidia-more-directly-by-selling-its-ai-chips/
@pulse·Jun 19
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952837/barret-zoph-openai-thinking-machines-lab
@pulse·Jun 19
'Queer Eye' life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/queer-eyes-life-coach-karamo-brown-launches-ke-a-wellness-app-featuring-his-ai-digital-clone/
@pulse·Jun 19
New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-enterprise-spend-controls
@pulse·Jun 19
The US says ASML's top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn't (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/the-us-says-asmls-top-chip-tool-may-be-in-china-asml-says-it-isnt/
@pulse·Jun 19
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech's $100M gunfight (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/a-tech-worker-backed-pac-is-bringing-a-5m-knife-to-big-techs-100m-gunfight/
@pulse·Jun 19
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/general-intuition-in-talks-to-raise-300m-at-around-2b-valuation/
@pulse·Jun 19
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that's holding back LLMs (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/19/1139313/a-startup-claims-it-broke-through-a-bottleneck-thats-holding-back-llms/
@pulse·Jun 19
Adobe's redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/952104/adobe-firefly-ai-agent-elements-projects-update
@pulse·Jun 19
The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no employees (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/the-ceo-of-allbirds-new-ai-biz-has-a-plan-but-no-employees/
@pulse·Jun 19
The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952906/sam-altman-film-artificial-openai-amazon-mgm-dropped
@pulse·Jun 19
Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/billionaire-ambani-wants-ai-in-every-call-app-and-home/
@pulse·Jun 19
The US banned Anthropic's Fable 5 release, but the numbers don't seem to care (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/the-us-banned-anthropics-fable-5-release-but-the-numbers-dont-seem-to-care/
@pulse·Jun 19
Is the US government's Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/is-the-us-governments-anthropic-ban-accidentally-helping-the-brand/
@pulse·Jun 19
Beyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/peft-beyond-lora
@pulse·Jun 19
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/diagnose-rare-childhood-diseases
@pulse·Jun 19
Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/improving-health-intelligence-in-chatgpt
@pulse·Jun 20
Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn't work (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-export-control-doesnt-work/
@pulse·Jun 20
Quoting Sean Lynch (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/19/sean-lynch/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 20
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/how-to-turn-off-ai-in-your-google-docs/
@pulse·Jun 20
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/
@pulse·Jun 20
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/953183/the-atlantic-searchable-database-music-ai-training-data
@pulse·Jun 20
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/in-the-weights-is-your-new-ai-centric-vanity-search/
@pulse·Jun 20
Signal's Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots 'are not your friends' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-remember-that-ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends/
@pulse·Jun 21
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/21/beyond-siri-here-are-the-practical-ai-features-coming-to-your-iphone-in-ios-27/
@pulse·Jun 21
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/21/when-the-trump-administration-cracks-down-on-anthropic-who-benefits/
@pulse·Jun 22
Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/samsung-electronics-chatgpt-codex-deployment
@pulse·Jun 22
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 22
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils-40rc1/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 22
Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/temporary-cloudflare-accounts/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 22
Read this before you vibe-code another app (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950844/vibe-coding-security-risks-apps
@pulse·Jun 22
PP-OCRv6 on Hugging Face: 50-Language OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/PaddlePaddle/pp-ocrv6
@pulse·Jun 22
How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/how-anthropic-may-have-talked-itself-into-an-ai-export-ban/
@pulse·Jun 22
The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/the-founder-conference-built-for-growth-techcrunch-founder-summit-pass-rates-increase-june-26/
@pulse·Jun 22
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/patch-the-planet
@pulse·Jun 22
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/spacex-inks-compute-deal-with-reflection-ai-an-open-source-ai-lab/
@pulse·Jun 22
Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/amazon-is-testing-alexa-in-india-with-hindi-support/
@pulse·Jun 22
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that's not the same as fixing AI's water problem (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/nvidia-wants-to-cut-data-center-water-use-but-thats-not-the-same-as-fixing-ais-water-problem/
@pulse·Jun 22
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/ai-chipmaker-groq-confirms-650m-raise-re-staffs-after-nvidias-20b-not-acqui-hire-deal/
@pulse·Jun 22
The AI world is getting 'loopy' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/the-ai-world-is-getting-loopy/
@pulse·Jun 23
GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/gm-installs-robots-at-flagship-ev-factory-after-laying-off-1300-workers/
@pulse·Jun 23
Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954139/nvidia-data-centers-rubin-liquid-cooling
@pulse·Jun 23
Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 23
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/prompt-injection-as-role-confusion/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 23
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/openai-launches-new-initiative-to-help-find-and-patch-open-source-bugs/
@pulse·Jun 23
The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/
@pulse·Jun 23
Three things to watch amid Anthropic's latest feud with the government (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/22/1139424/three-things-to-watch-amid-anthropics-latest-feud-with-the-government/
@pulse·Jun 23
Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI's future in Hollywood with A24 deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/google-deepmind-bets-75m-on-ais-future-in-hollywood-with-a24-deal/
@pulse·Jun 23
AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/953888/ai-virtual-staging-real-estate-apartment-listings
@pulse·Jun 23
Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/daybreak-securing-the-world
@pulse·Jun 23
Shipping huggingface_hub every week with AI, open tools, and a human in the loop (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-hub-release-ci
@pulse·Jun 23
How Omio is building the future of conversational travel (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/omio
@pulse·Jun 23
Codex-maxxing for long-running work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/codex-maxxing-long-running-work
@pulse·Jun 23
The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/23/1138837/asml-400-million-dollar-machine-powering-future-of-chipmaking/
@pulse·Jun 23
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/
@pulse·Jun 23
Sony's AI Camera Assistant is exactly as bad as it looks (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954676/sony-xperia-1-viii-ai-camera-assistant
@pulse·Jun 23
4 days left to save up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/4-days-left-to-save-up-to-190-on-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/
@pulse·Jun 23
The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954768/google-fitbit-air-review-fitness-tracker-wearable-ai-health-coach
@pulse·Jun 23
Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/954970/ai-super-pacs-alex-bores-new-york-12th-district
@pulse·Jun 23
Anthropic's Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/anthropics-claude-tag-is-learning-your-company-one-slack-message-at-a-time/
@pulse·Jun 23
How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-immunology-mystery
@pulse·Jun 23
Something's off with Midjourney's pivot to body scanners (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/954826/midjourney-medical-ai-ultrasound-body-scanner-lacks-evidence
@pulse·Jun 23
OPFS + Pyodide test harness (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/23/opfs-pyodide/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 23
Oracle's 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/oracles-21000-layoffs-help-drive-its-debt-fueled-ai-investments/
@pulse·Jun 24
Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/954899/luca-guadagnino-artificial-sam-altman-amazon-a24-neon-mubi-chatgpt
@pulse·Jun 24
Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/955385/google-home-familiar-faces-clothing
@pulse·Jun 24
India's MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/indias-moengage-bets-marketings-future-on-millions-of-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jun 24
Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/fika-jobs-raises-4m-to-build-a-video-first-hiring-platform-where-ai-agents-interview-candidates/
@pulse·Jun 24
Helping build shared standards for advanced AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/helping-build-shared-standards-for-advanced-ai
@pulse·Jun 24
datasette 1.0a35 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/23/datasette/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 24
Experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.js (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/cross-origin-storage
@pulse·Jun 24
Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954052/meta-glasses-hands-on-kylie-jenner-smart-glasses-price-battery-privacy
@pulse·Jun 24
Build real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harness (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/cuga-apps
@pulse·Jun 24
3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/3-days-left-to-save-up-to-190-on-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/
@pulse·Jun 24
OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/955939/openai-reveals-its-first-ai-processor-jalapeno
@pulse·Jun 24
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
@pulse·Jun 24
Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/facebook-rolls-out-an-ai-companion-app-for-creators/
@pulse·Jun 24
The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/956263/alex-bores-new-york-12th-district-congressional-primary-results
@pulse·Jun 24
Figma now has AI motion graphics and shader tools (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/955831/figma-code-design-tools-config-2026-announcements
@pulse·Jun 24
Quoting Tom MacWright (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/tom-macwright/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 24
Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/956394/florida-anna-paulina-luna-anthropic-claude
@pulse·Jun 24
Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-employees-from-maxing-out-ai-budgets-with-small-tasks/
@pulse·Jun 25
Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/former-infosys-chief-has-a-new-startup-that-wants-to-challenge-the-it-services-world/
@pulse·Jun 25
simonw/browser-compat-db (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/browser-compat-db/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 25
Europe is pushing back on Washington's chip war (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war/
@pulse·Jun 25
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they're the most resilient (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-was-supposed-to-kill-engineering-jobs-but-new-data-suggests-theyre-the-most-resilient/
@pulse·Jun 25
OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/openai-and-broadcom-announce-chip-designed-for-llm-inference-at-scale/
@pulse·Jun 25
Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/cerebras-stock-plunges-after-earnings-as-ceo-says-margin-outlook-was-misunderstood/
@pulse·Jun 25
The Google Home Speaker sounds good and looks great - but it's finicky (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/955537/google-home-smart-speaker-hands-on
@pulse·Jun 25
The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/the-memory-chip-crunch-is-paying-off-for-this-u-s-company/
@pulse·Jun 25
AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/
@pulse·Jun 25
Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-computer-use-in-gemini-3-5-flash/
@pulse·Jun 25
Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/agility-robotics-plans-to-go-public-via-spac-in-a-2-5b-deal/
@pulse·Jun 25
How agents are transforming work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/how-agents-are-transforming-work
@pulse·Jun 25
Facebook's Creator Studio has been revived as an AI companion app (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/956668/meta-facebook-creator-studio-ai-app-relaunch
@pulse·Jun 25
IBM claims world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/ibm-claims-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology/
@pulse·Jun 25
Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/amazon-ups-india-bet-with-fresh-13b-ai-infrastructure-investment/
@pulse·Jun 25
2 days left to save up to $190: Join 1,000+ founders and investors at TechCrunch Founder Summit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/2-days-left-to-save-up-to-190-join-1000-founders-and-investors-at-techcrunch-founder-summit/
@pulse·Jun 25
Repositioning retail for the AI era (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/25/1137848/repositioning-retail-for-the-ai-era/
@pulse·Jun 25
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/netris-raises-15m-series-a-from-a16z-to-help-ai-neoclouds-go-live-faster/
@pulse·Jun 25
General Intuition's $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/general-intuitions-2-3b-bet-that-video-games-can-train-ai-agents-for-the-real-world/
@pulse·Jun 25
Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/anthropics-claude-is-winning-over-paid-consumers-a-market-owned-by-chatgpt/
@pulse·Jun 25
Anthropic claims Alibaba defied Trump to attack Claude and steal capabilities (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/anthropic-claims-alibaba-defied-trump-to-attack-claude-and-steal-capabilities/
@pulse·Jun 25
Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/notion-killing-skiff-influenced-email-app-since-most-users-use-ai-agents-instead/
@pulse·Jun 25
Patronus AI lands $50M to build 'digital worlds' that stress-test AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/patronus-ai-lands-50m-to-build-digital-worlds-that-stress-test-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jun 25
Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/vllm-jobs
@pulse·Jun 26
OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957372/openai-will-delay-gpt-5-6-after-trump-administration-request
@pulse·Jun 26
AI and Liability (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/25/ai-and-liability/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/the-white-house-is-asking-openai-to-slow-roll-the-release-of-its-new-model-over-safety-concerns/
@pulse·Jun 26
Databricks' former AI chief thinks he can cut AI's power bill by 1,000x (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/databricks-former-ai-chief-thinks-he-can-cut-ais-power-bill-by-1000x/
@pulse·Jun 26
datasette-export-database 0.3a2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/25/datasette-export-database/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/06/google-finance-finally-gets-a-mobile-app-as-ai-powered-overhaul-leaves-beta/
@pulse·Jun 26
Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/adobe-acquires-image-and-video-enhancement-tool-maker-topaz-labs/
@pulse·Jun 26
Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/google-finance-updates-june-2026/
@pulse·Jun 26
Which tokens does a hybrid model predict better? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/hybrid-token-prediction
@pulse·Jun 26
Accelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/accelerating-fine-tuning-nvidia-nemo-automodel
@pulse·Jun 26
Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/figma-adds-code-layers-support-for-animations-more-ai-features-in-new-update/
@pulse·Jun 26
Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/956316/ford-quality-jd-power-ranking-ai-automated-mistakes
@pulse·Jun 26
Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/early-bird-pricing-ends-tonight-for-techcrunch-founder-summit/
@pulse·Jun 26
Anthropic's Mythos mess is only getting worse (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957327/anthropic-mythos-fable-ai-trump-administration-negotiations
@pulse·Jun 26
Quoting OpenAI (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/openai/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia) (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/why-everyone-from-openai-to-spacex-is-building-their-own-chips-and-turning-up-the-heat-on-nvidia/
@pulse·Jun 26
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/incident-report/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn't be the norm (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-gpt-5-6-rollout-after-government-request-says-restrictions-shouldnt-be-the-norm/
@pulse·Jun 26
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/hack-my-ai-assistant/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/microsoft-built-supercomputer-to-help-openai-infringe-copyrights-nyt-alleged/
@pulse·Jun 27
Quoting Timothy B. Lee (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 27
South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors" (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-plans-to-train-entire-military-as-drone-warriors/
@pulse·Jun 27
Quoting Dean W. Ball (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/dean-w-ball/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 27
OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-poaches-uber-india-chief-to-lead-its-biggest-market-outside-the-u-s/
@pulse·Jun 27
Anthropic's Mythos 5 is back (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958458/anthropic-mythos-5-is-back-trump-negotiations
@pulse·Jun 27
Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/trump-admin-releases-anthropic-mythos-to-be-used-by-more-than-100-us-companies-agencies/
@pulse·Jun 27
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip is Big Tech's spiciest move away from Nvidia (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/openais-jalapeno-chip-is-big-techs-spiciest-move-away-from-nvidia/
@pulse·Jun 27
It's not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/its-not-about-anthropic-vs-openai-anymore/
@pulse·Jun 27
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 amid US AI regulatory drama (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957845/openai-gpt-5-6-trump-administration-ai-preview
@pulse·Jun 27
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol
@pulse·Jun 27
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/
@pulse·Jun 27
Why is Apple asking me to pay more for Big Tech's AI obsession? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/958678/apple-consumer-price-increase-ai-big-tech
@pulse·Jun 27
The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here's how he used AI to fight back. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/the-fittest-founder-in-the-room-got-cancer-heres-how-he-used-ai-to-fight-back/
@pulse·Jun 27
Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai/
@pulse·Jun 27
SoftBank's CEO isn't the only one with questions about Elon Musk's orbital data center hype (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/softbanks-ceo-isnt-the-only-one-with-questions-about-elon-musks-orbital-data-center-hype/
@pulse·Jun 28
Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is 'garbage in, garbage out' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958715/margaret-atwood-ai-problem-garbage-in-garbage-out
@pulse·Jun 28
Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958751/prosecutors-chatgpt-palisades-wildfire-arson-mistrial
@pulse·Jun 28
Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/why-wall-street-thinks-us-memory-maker-micron-is-the-next-nvidia/
@pulse·Jun 28
Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/
@pulse·Jun 28
Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958801/suno-launches-spark-incubator-program-to-feed-independent-artists-to-its-ai-machine
@pulse·Jun 29
Hack Your Summer (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/28/hack-your-summer/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 29
China's Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958804/chinas-z-ai-glm-52-mythos-cybersecurity
@pulse·Jun 29
Quoting Jon Udell (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/28/jon-udell/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 29
HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/hp-frontier-partnership
@pulse·Jun 29
Mapping Europe's AI Workforce Opportunity (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/mapping-ai-jobs-transition-eu
@pulse·Jun 29
Omen AI's plan to optimize data centers is all wet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/omen-ais-plan-to-optimize-data-centers-is-all-wet/
@pulse·Jun 29
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/robot-hand-company-settles-tesla-trade-secret-suit-and-announces-11m-raise/
@pulse·Jun 29
Agent confidence on the technical frontier (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139635/agent-confidence-on-the-technical-frontier/
@pulse·Jun 29
Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/cursor-now-has-a-mobile-app-for-guiding-your-coding-agent-on-the-go/
@pulse·Jun 29
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/arena-the-ai-leaderboard-everyone-uses-is-now-a-100m-business/
@pulse·Jun 29
DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/discoformer
@pulse·Jun 29
OpenAI is teasing new hardware... for Codex (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959174/openai-codex-hardware-work-louder
@pulse·Jun 29
Tidal won't pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn't banning it outright (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959211/tidal-ai-music-policy-demonetizingdetect-label
@pulse·Jun 29
Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/geminis-personalized-ai-image-generation-is-now-free-for-u-s-users/
@pulse·Jun 30
Count the number of Safari tabs (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/safari-tab-count/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-humanoid-robots/
@pulse·Jun 30
HTML table extractor (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/html-table-extractor/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease 'RAMageddon' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/south-korean-tech-giants-commit-over-550b-to-ease-ramageddon/
@pulse·Jun 30
Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/anthropic-and-gov-newsom-forge-deal-allowing-california-government-to-use-claude-at-half-price/
@pulse·Jun 30
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/vibe-coding-platform-base44-launches-own-model-as-ai-startups-seek-defensibility/
@pulse·Jun 30
AI agents are not your "coworkers" (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139849/ai-agents-are-not-your-coworkers/
@pulse·Jun 30
The AI jobs debate just got messier (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/the-ai-jobs-debate-just-got-messier/
@pulse·Jun 30
Unlocking Britain's next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers (Google AI)
https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/unlocking-britains-next-era-of-productivity-building-a-nation-of-ai-trailblazers/
@pulse·Jun 30
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/ornith/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/tidal-cracks-down-on-ai-music-by-cutting-off-monetization/
@pulse·Jun 30
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/crypto-exchange-okx-wants-ai-agents-to-hire-and-pay-each-other/
@pulse·Jun 30
Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack? (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/full-stack-ai-explainer/
@pulse·Jun 30
Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959033/health-location-data-protection-act-ai-warren-scanlon
@pulse·Jun 30
Lumo, Proton's privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/lumo-protons-privacy-focused-ai-chatbot-gets-an-upgrade/
@pulse·Jun 30
Why Specialization Is Inevitable (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/why-specialization-is-inevitable
@pulse·Jun 30
Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launches-new-1-billion-fde-org-following-openai-and-anthropic/
@pulse·Jun 30
The AI Compass (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/the-ai-compass/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/acti-puts-ai-agents-directly-into-your-smartphone-keyboard/
@pulse·Jun 30
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/anthropic-launches-claude-sonnet-5-as-a-cheaper-way-to-run-agents/
@pulse·Jun 30
Google's NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959778/google-notebooklm-ai-clips
@pulse·Jun 30
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai-browsers-can-be-lulled-into-a-dream-world-where-guardrails-no-longer-apply/
@pulse·Jun 30
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-deepmind-trio-who-built-a-poker-ai-are-now-making-money-for-quant-hedge-funds/
@pulse·Jul 1
Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/30/1139987/claude-science-is-anthropics-newest-flagship-product/
@pulse·Jul 1
OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/openclaw-is-finally-available-on-android-and-ios/
@pulse·Jul 1
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/nano-banana-2-lite/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 1
Anthropic's long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958964/anthropic-claude-fable-5-is-back
@pulse·Jul 1
Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/wayve-launches-85m-employee-tender-offer-at-8-5b-valuation/
@pulse·Jul 1
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/trump-drops-restrictions-on-anthropics-mythos-and-fable-models/
@pulse·Jul 1
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/claude-sonnet-5/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 1
Quoting Anthropic (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/anthropic/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 1
The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
@pulse·Jul 1
ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/scarfbench
@pulse·Jul 1
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/googles-new-nano-banana-2-lite-image-model-is-its-fastest-and-cheapest-yet/
@pulse·Jul 1
Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/google-introduces-a-faster-cheaper-image-generator-with-nano-banana-2-lite/
@pulse·Jul 1
Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/959684/netflix-wonka-golden-ticket-gene-wilder
@pulse·Jul 1
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/nvidia-competitor-etched-hits-5b-valuation-1b-in-sales-for-ai-chip/
@pulse·Jul 1
Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn't ready for it (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959503/google-home-speaker-review-gemini-for-home
@pulse·Jul 1
Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/builders-stage-agenda-revealed-practical-strategies-for-scaling-startups-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Jul 1
Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/gemini-spark-googles-agentic-assistant-is-now-available-on-mac/
@pulse·Jul 1
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice-ai-becomes-a-unicorn-with-65m-series-a-as-its-privacy-first-ai-platform-takes-off/
@pulse·Jul 1
New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google's offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms. (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/nyc-ai-summit/
@pulse·Jul 1
After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/after-spooking-trump-into-safety-testing-anthropic-ai-models-get-global-release/
@pulse·Jul 1
Cloudflare's new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers' content (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/
@pulse·Jul 1
The latest AI news we announced in June 2026 (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-ai-updates-june-2026/
@pulse·Jul 1
Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/ashton-kutcher-leaving-sound-ventures-to-launch-new-vc-firm-with-morgan-beller/
@pulse·Jul 1
SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/spacex-has-an-ai-device-prototype-and-it-sure-sounds-phone-ish/
@pulse·Jul 2
Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/cerebras-gemma4-voice-ai
@pulse·Jul 2
Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/meta-like-spacex-looks-to-turn-excess-ai-compute-into-cash/
@pulse·Jul 2
LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out. (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1140003/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out/
@pulse·Jul 2
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/shot-scraper-video/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 2
Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trumps-plan-to-redesign-every-gov-website-leads-to-ai-designed-horrors/
@pulse·Jul 2
Anthropic's Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/anthropics-claude-science-bets-on-workflow-not-a-new-model-to-win-over-scientists/
@pulse·Jul 2
Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids' savings accounts, report says (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/spacex-may-donate-stock-to-trumps-savings-accounts-for-kids-report-says/
@pulse·Jul 2
Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/start-building-with-nano-banana-2-lite-and-gemini-omni-flash/
@pulse·Jul 2
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/indian-tech-tycoon-bets-30m-to-build-an-ai-alternative-to-microsoft-office/
@pulse·Jul 2
Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/podcasting-platform-riverside-enters-the-newsletter-publishing-game/
@pulse·Jul 2
X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/x-now-offers-an-mcp-server-to-make-its-platform-easier-for-ai-tools-to-use/
@pulse·Jul 2
shot-scraper 1.10 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/shot-scraper/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 2
Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk - twice (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/959270/elon-musk-open-ai-bill-savitt-twitter
@pulse·Jul 2
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/960588/openai-government-5-percent-stake-trump
@pulse·Jul 2
Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/googles-ai-buildout-drove-37-increase-in-electricity-use-in-2025/
@pulse·Jul 2
Teaching AI to run with the turbines (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1138433/teaching-ai-to-run-with-the-turbines/
@pulse·Jul 2
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-launches-its-own-ai-deployment-company-with-2-5-billion-commitment/
@pulse·Jul 2
Musk's X poses "serious risk to Americans' privacy," advocates warn FTC (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/musks-x-poses-serious-risk-to-americans-privacy-advocates-warn-ftc/
@pulse·Jul 2
OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposed-donating-5-of-its-equity-to-a-us-sovereign-wealth-fund/
@pulse·Jul 2
Achieving operational excellence with AI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140045/achieving-operational-excellence-with-ai/
@pulse·Jul 2
Understand to participate (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2/understand-to-participate/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 2
Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/anthropic-is-discussing-a-new-custom-chip-with-samsung/
@pulse·Jul 2
Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/meta-quietly-launches-vibe-coded-gaming-app-pocket/
@pulse·Jul 2
Jersey Mike's IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/jersey-mikes-ipo-illustrates-how-bad-the-ai-hype-has-become/
@pulse·Jul 3
Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2/dspy-datasette-agent-prompts/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 3
llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2/llm-coding-agent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 3
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-tells-staff-that-ai-agents-havent-progressed-as-quickly-as-hed-hoped/
@pulse·Jul 3
Yep, we're using OpenClaw to date now (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/yep-were-using-openclaw-to-date-now/
@pulse·Jul 3
Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders' target (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-floats-giving-us-5-stake-to-win-over-ai-haters/
@pulse·Jul 3
A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney's medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961265/midjourney-medical-ultrasound-scanner-behind-the-scenes-video
@pulse·Jul 3
Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961311/anthropic-claude-science-ai-drug-development
@pulse·Jul 3
Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/google-deepmind-and-a24-announce-first-of-its-kind-research-partnership/
@pulse·Jul 3
June 2026 newsletter (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/june-newsletter/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 3
The browser wars aren't about search anymore - here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/as-the-browser-wars-heat-up-here-are-the-hottest-alternatives-to-chrome-and-safari-in-2026/
@pulse·Jul 3
Fable's judgement (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/judgement/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 4
The only AI glossary you'll need this year (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/artificial-intelligence-definition-glossary-hallucinations-guide-to-common-ai-terms/
@pulse·Jul 4
Quoting Josh W. Comeau (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/josh-w-comeau/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 4
Open Source AI Gap Map (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/open-source-ai-gap-map/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 4
The fanfiction community is at war with AI - and itself (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/960854/ai-fanfiction-ao3-claude-detector
@pulse·Jul 4
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/what-is-mistral-ai-everything-to-know-about-the-openai-competitor/
@pulse·Jul 4
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/alibaba-reportedly-bans-employees-from-using-claude-code/
@pulse·Jul 4
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/midjourney-wants-hollywood-studios-to-reveal-the-details-of-their-ai-usage/
@pulse·Jul 4
New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/new-google-commercial-imagines-a-declaration-of-independence-written-with-help-from-ai/
@pulse·Jul 5
Better Models: Worse Tools (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/4/better-models-worse-tools/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
Building a World Map with only 500 bytes (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/4/building-a-world-map-with-only-500-bytes/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils-fable/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961468/google-ai-commercial-founding-fathers-declaration-of-independence
@pulse·Jul 5
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/
@pulse·Jul 6
Some of the nation's rich are letting AI teach their kids (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961505/wealthy-ai-schools-alpha-forge-prep
@pulse·Jul 6
🤗 Kernels: Major Updates (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/revamped-kernels
@pulse·Jul 6
sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 6
LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-release-v060
@pulse·Jul 6
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe's hottest AI startups (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/station-f-ramps-up-as-a-launchpad-for-europes-hottest-ai-startups/
@pulse·Jul 6
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/news/961528/microsoft-layoffs-july-2026-sales-xbox
@pulse·Jul 6
UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/uk-regulator-warns-of-arms-race-to-keep-up-with-ai-use-in-financial-services/
@pulse·Jul 6
I spy (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/961707/smart-glasses-ai-wearables-meta-surveillance-privacy
@pulse·Jul 6
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic's anti-surveillance stance (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users/
@pulse·Jul 6
If you use Google, you're training its AI. Here's how to opt out. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/if-you-use-google-youre-training-its-ai-heres-how-to-opt-out/
@pulse·Jul 6
Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/
@pulse·Jul 6
You can now customize Siri's pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta/
@pulse·Jul 6
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/vercel-ceo-guillermo-rauch-on-the-fight-to-split-off-models-from-agents/
@pulse·Jul 7
Your family's $300 stake in OpenAI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/06/1140176/your-familys-300-stake-in-openai/
@pulse·Jul 7
US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/us-investors-will-soon-get-access-to-sk-hynix-another-memory-maker-riding-the-ai-boom/
@pulse·Jul 7
The 'first' AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/the-first-ai-run-ransomware-attack-still-needed-a-human/
@pulse·Jul 7
PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Photoroom/prx-part4-data
@pulse·Jul 7
Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/microsoft-lays-off-nearly-5000-employees-across-xbox-commercial-sales/
@pulse·Jul 7
tencent/Hy3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 7
Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/reddit-is-using-llms-to-solve-a-problem-llms-largely-created/
@pulse·Jul 7
The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/the-first-american-autonomous-ground-vehicles-are-fighting-in-ukraine/
@pulse·Jul 7
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces-and maybe homes (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/07/robot-workers-rising-how-ai-may-drive-general-purpose-autonomy-in-robotics/
@pulse·Jul 7
The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/07/1139413/the-foundational-elements-of-ai-architecture-that-it-leaders-need-to-scale/
@pulse·Jul 7
Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961711/solos-airgo-a6-smart-glasses-ai-assistant-privacy
@pulse·Jul 7
Savi's app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/savis-app-aims-to-protect-consumers-from-realistic-ai-scams-like-kidnappers-demanding-ransom/
@pulse·Jul 7
Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/facing-us-export-controls-chinas-deepseek-plans-to-make-its-own-chips/
@pulse·Jul 7
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/the-coding-agent-wars-are-spilling-into-the-rest-of-the-office-claude-cowork/
@pulse·Jul 7
Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961978/anthropic-claude-cowork-mobile-web
@pulse·Jul 7
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/microsoft-joins-ai-cost-cutting-trend-by-relying-more-on-its-own-models/
@pulse·Jul 7
Why the rise of open source AI isn't hurting Anthropic ... yet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/why-the-rise-of-open-source-ai-isnt-hurting-anthropic-yet/
@pulse·Jul 7
Meta's new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/962485/meta-muse-image-ai-model-instagram
@pulse·Jul 8
Data centers' energy demand threatens Trump's "Made in America" plan (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/us-manufacturers-energy-costs-soar-because-of-ai-data-center-demand/
@pulse·Jul 8
From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/one-click-to-sagemaker-studio
@pulse·Jul 8
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/meta-rolls-out-muse-a-new-ai-image-generator/
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-migrate 0.2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-migrate/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/discord-admits-ai-moderation-bug-wrongfully-banned-users-over-harmless-images/
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-utils-4/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/microsoft/foundry-managed-compute
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-utils 4.0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
github-code Web Component (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/github-code-component/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/hackers-can-use-9-of-the-most-popular-ai-tools-to-assemble-massive-botnets/
@pulse·Jul 8
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/sambanova-draws-1b-at-11b-valuation-in-series-f-first-close/
@pulse·Jul 8
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/hot-french-startup-zml-releases-free-product-to-speed-inference-across-lots-of-ai-chips/
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-utils-2/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanding-managed-agents-gemini-api/
@pulse·Jul 8
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/former-openai-exec-kevin-weil-is-now-on-the-board-of-stoke-space/
@pulse·Jul 8
MUFG aims to become AI-native with OpenAI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/mufg
@pulse·Jul 8
Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/australian-payments-plus
@pulse·Jul 8
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces-and maybe homes (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/robot-workers-rising-how-ai-may-drive-general-purpose-autonomy-in-robotics/
@pulse·Jul 8
Data for Agents (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/open-data-for-agents
@pulse·Jul 8
ChatGPT's upgraded voice mode is better at shutting up (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/962856/chatgpt-upgraded-voice-mode-gpt-live
@pulse·Jul 8
Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/why-this-ceo-thinks-video-games-make-better-training-data-than-the-internet/
@pulse·Jul 8
Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-user-made-7k-child-sex-images-xai-only-reported-one-gang-rape-prompt/
@pulse·Jul 8
Quoting Kenton Varda (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/kenton-varda/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Google's deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/googles-deepfake-detector-system-used-to-debunk-mcconnell-hoax-pic/
@pulse·Jul 9
Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
@pulse·Jul 9
Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/lovable-reportedly-in-talks-to-double-its-valuation-to-13-2b/
@pulse·Jul 9
Introducing GPT‑Live (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/introducing-gptlive/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 9
This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/this-startup-thinks-robotics-is-about-to-have-its-chatgpt-moment/
@pulse·Jul 9
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an 'Opus-class model' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-releases-grok-4-5-which-elon-describes-as-an-opus-class-model/
@pulse·Jul 9
Rewriting Bun in Rust (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/rewriting-bun-in-rust/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 9
OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/openai-releases-new-voice-models-for-more-natural-live-conversations/
@pulse·Jul 9
Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/meta-wants-its-ai-glasses-to-seem-less-creepy-its-ai-strategy-says-otherwise/
@pulse·Jul 9
Google Photos adds a new AI 'Video Remix' tool (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/google-photos-adds-a-new-ai-video-remix-tool/
@pulse·Jul 9
These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/these-ai-startups-are-growing-revenue-at-faster-and-faster-rates/
@pulse·Jul 9
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/prime-intellect-raises-130m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-build-their-own-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jul 9
Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-revamps-android-ai-dev-benchmark-adds-fable-5-and-other-agents/
@pulse·Jul 9
Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/your-gaming-data-could-be-the-secret-to-agi-according-to-this-bezos-backed-startup/
@pulse·Jul 9
Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations
@pulse·Jul 9
Our approach to government and national security partnerships (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/government-national-security-partnerships
@pulse·Jul 9
Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963193/meta-muse-spark-model-api
@pulse·Jul 9
Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/anthropic-openai-and-spacex-are-bigger-than-the-last-25-years-of-tech-exits/
@pulse·Jul 9
Anthropic's new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/anthropics-new-claude-feature-is-quietly-selling-you-on-ai/
@pulse·Jul 9
Meta's new AI chips will begin production in September (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-chips-will-begin-production-in-september/
@pulse·Jul 9
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government greenlight - and announces 'ChatGPT Work' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963464/openai-gpt-5-6-codex-chatgpt-work
@pulse·Jul 9
How to stop Meta's AI image generator from using your Instagram photos (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/how-to-stop-metas-ai-image-generator-from-using-your-instagram-photos/
@pulse·Jul 9
Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963628/google-ai-generated-ads-label
@pulse·Jul 9
Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/humanoid-robots-controlled-by-surgeons-did-world-first-operation-on-live-pigs/
@pulse·Jul 9
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/09/1140293/anthropic-found-a-hidden-space-where-claude-puzzles-over-concepts/
@pulse·Jul 10
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963738/openai-fidji-simo-steps-down-ceo-advisor
@pulse·Jul 10
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's no. 2 role (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-no-2-role/
@pulse·Jul 10
Microsoft's carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963728/microsoft-sustainability-report-2026
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6/
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/openai-says-gpt-5-6-is-the-preferred-model-for-microsoft-copilot-amid-breakup-chatter/
@pulse·Jul 10
Quoting OpenAI (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/10/openai/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 10
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to 'cut off' Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/elon-musk-praises-mythos-fable-promises-not-to-cut-off-anthropic/
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/openai-is-shutting-down-atlas-but-its-ai-browser-ambitions-are-still-growing/
@pulse·Jul 10
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/an-ai-agent-startup-just-let-its-agent-run-its-100-million-fundraise/
@pulse·Jul 10
The ChatGPT browser is already dead (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963654/openai-chatgpt-atlas-ai-browser-shut-down-sunset
@pulse·Jul 10
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/torch-attention-profile
@pulse·Jul 10
How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/deutsche-telekom
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/openai-wants-its-new-tool-to-do-your-work-for-you-and-with-you/
@pulse·Jul 10
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/can-ai-answer-the-3-trillion-question/
@pulse·Jul 10
Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/962897/character-ai-series-microdrama-vertical-video
@pulse·Jul 10
The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/gpt-5-6/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 10
Would you host part of an AI data center in your home? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963930/sunrun-distributed-ai-data-center
@pulse·Jul 10
Instagram's Adam Mosseri: If you don't like AI, 'then you shouldn't have it in your feed' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963961/instagram-adam-mosseri-ai-feed-filters
@pulse·Jul 10
Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/disable-auto-play-and-infinite-scroll-or-risk-massive-fines-eu-tells-meta/
@pulse·Jul 10
Quoting Nilay Patel (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/10/nilay-patel/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 10
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/sk-hynix-raises-26-5b-in-the-biggest-foreign-ipo-in-us-history-is-urged-to-build-new-us-fabs/
@pulse·Jul 10
Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/hugging-faces-ceo-on-why-companies-are-done-renting-their-ai/
@pulse·Jul 10
Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face's Clem Delangue (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/open-source-ai-matters-more-than-ever-according-to-hugging-faces-clem-delangue/
@pulse·Jul 10
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft/
@pulse·Jul 11
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets
@pulse·Jul 11
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/
@pulse·Jul 11
Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964416/meta-instagram-ai-muse-image-deepfakes
@pulse·Jul 11
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-faked-inability-to-search-training-data-hid-billions-of-logs-nyt-says/
@pulse·Jul 11
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/new-york-times-says-openai-hid-evidence-in-chatgpt-copyright-trial/
@pulse·Jul 11
Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/meta-enters-the-crowded-ai-coding-battle-with-muse-spark-1-1/
@pulse·Jul 11
How did the government decide OpenAI's frontier model was safe to release? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/how-did-the-government-decide-openais-frontier-model-was-safe-to-release/
@pulse·Jul 11
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/paris-based-ai-voice-startup-gradium-raises-100m-seed-backed-by-nvidia/
@pulse·Jul 11
Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/google-will-now-disclose-which-ads-are-made-with-ai/
@pulse·Jul 11
llm-meta-ai 0.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/llm-meta-ai/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 11
Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/muse-spark-1-1/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 11
Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/nvidia-is-a-victim-of-the-compute-marketplace-it-created/
@pulse·Jul 11
GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6-preferred-model-microsoft-365-copilot
@pulse·Jul 11
Microsoft's patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963307/microsoft-patch-tuesday-ai-security-updates
@pulse·Jul 11
llm 0.31.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/llm/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 11
OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/11/openai-bets-on-families-as-chatgpt-goes-deeper-into-households/
@pulse·Jul 12
sqlite-utils 4.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/11/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 12
The fight against AI data centers is just beginning (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/963346/ai-data-centers-fight
@pulse·Jul 12
Apple's failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964519/apple-silicon-self-driving-car-ai-m7-ultra
@pulse·Jul 12
Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are 'not sexy' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/964539/lorde-says-ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses-are-not-sexy
@pulse·Jul 13
sqlite-utils 4.1.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
Fable gets another bump (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/bump/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/directly-responsible-individuals/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
shot-scraper 1.11 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/shot-scraper/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/964132/waze-gemini-ai-voice-commands-less-chatty
@pulse·Jul 13
Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/waze-adds-new-ai-powered-features-and-customization-updates/
@pulse·Jul 13
Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/should-ai-help-you-get-away-with-killing-your-spouse/
@pulse·Jul 13
Sam Altman's space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/sam-altmans-space-data-center-trash-talk-is-what-most-experts-already-believe/
@pulse·Jul 13
The 6 wildest claims in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims
@pulse·Jul 13
Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/apple-sues-openai-after-ex-engineer-allegedly-used-bug-to-steal-trade-secrets/
@pulse·Jul 13
Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964714/siri-ai-public-beta-preview-ios-27-hands-on
@pulse·Jul 13
Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/satya-nadella-has-issued-a-shocking-warning-to-companies-using-ai/
@pulse·Jul 14
datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/datasette-code-frequency/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
DOOMQL (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/doomql/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/hermes-agent-maker-nous-research-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-1-5b-valuation/
@pulse·Jul 14
Uber's product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn't want to be "everything for everyone" (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/ubers-product-chief-on-hotels-robotaxis-and-why-the-company-doesnt-want-to-be-everything-for-everyone/
@pulse·Jul 14
Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/uvx-github-actions-cache/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/already-rich-already-successful-why-the-last-wave-of-tech-winners-is-grinding-again/
@pulse·Jul 14
What Anthropic's latest AI discovery does-and doesn't-show (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/13/1140343/what-anthropics-latest-ai-discovery-does-and-doesnt-show/
@pulse·Jul 14
The wildest allegations in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/the-wildest-allegations-in-apples-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai/
@pulse·Jul 14
Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/video-generation-startup-pixverse-raises-439m-valuation-soars-past-2b/
@pulse·Jul 14
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/
@pulse·Jul 14
Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/anthropic-starts-localizing-claude-pricing-for-india-its-biggest-market-after-the-us/
@pulse·Jul 14
New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965110/new-york-ai-data-center-moratorium
@pulse·Jul 14
How sales teams use ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/academy/codex-for-work/how-sales-teams-use-codex
@pulse·Jul 14
How data science teams use ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/academy/codex-for-work/how-data-science-teams-use-codex
@pulse·Jul 14
Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog - led by the US (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/965270/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-global-ai-watchdog
@pulse·Jul 14
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/the-real-ai-race-may-no-longer-be-at-the-frontier-open-models-hugging-face/
@pulse·Jul 14
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/reflection-inks-1b-compute-deal-with-nebius/
@pulse·Jul 14
New York is the first state to impose a data center moratorium (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/new-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium/
@pulse·Jul 14
Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-revamps-image-search-for-its-25th-anniversary-with-more-images-and-more-ai/
@pulse·Jul 14
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/965486/meta-lawsuit-former-employees-ai-layoffs
@pulse·Jul 14
DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/deepmind-ceo-calls-for-an-independent-standards-body-to-regulate-frontier-ai/
@pulse·Jul 14
Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/apple-opens-its-new-siri-ai-to-everyone-with-the-ios-27-public-beta/
@pulse·Jul 14
lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/lobsters-sqlite/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-claims-metas-layoff-decisions-were-made-by-ai-not-humans/
@pulse·Jul 15
simonw/pedalican (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/pedalican/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Quoting GitHub Changeling (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/github-changeling/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Lorde says AI glasses are "not sexy" (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/lorde-says-ai-glasses-are-not-sexy/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openai-pushes-back-on-apple-trade-secret-lawsuit/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openais-first-hardware-device-is-reportedly-a-screenless-speaker-that-can-move/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openai-researcher-miles-wang-in-talks-to-launch-ai-drug-discovery-startup-valued-at-2b/
@pulse·Jul 15
Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/anthropics-newest-ad-is-creeping-people-out/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965670/openai-chatgpt-ai-smart-speaker-hardware-device
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openais-new-flagship-model-deletes-files-on-its-own-people-keep-warning/
@pulse·Jul 15
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/google-faces-another-ai-training-lawsuit-from-major-publishers/
@pulse·Jul 15
SpaceXAI's Grok programming tool was uploading its users' entire codebase to cloud storage (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965600/spacexai-grok-build-repository-upload
@pulse·Jul 15
The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/the-founder-of-hinge-raised-18m-to-build-a-new-ai-dating-service-overtone/
@pulse·Jul 15
Quoting Armin Ronacher (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/armin-ronacher/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/vint-cerf-is-working-on-a-plan-to-unleash-ai-agents-on-the-open-internet/
@pulse·Jul 15
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/indian-ai-coding-startup-emergent-becomes-a-unicorn-just-over-a-year-after-launch/
@pulse·Jul 15
Reelful's AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/reelfuls-ai-turns-your-camera-roll-into-short-form-videos-for-social-media/
@pulse·Jul 15
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/anthropic-blackstone-bet-the-next-trillion-dollar-ai-business-is-implementation-not-models/
@pulse·Jul 15
How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/claude-web-fetch-exfiltration/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn't. (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/model-routing-is-simple-until-it-isnt
@pulse·Jul 15
What building Shippy taught us about building agents (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/shippy-tech-blog
@pulse·Jul 15
Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966072/suno-ai-music-training-scraping-youtube-hack
@pulse·Jul 15
SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/spacex-falls-to-135-ipo-price-ahead-of-starship-launch/
@pulse·Jul 15
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/amid-hardware-legal-battle-openai-releases-a-230-keyboard-for-codex/
@pulse·Jul 15
AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/965616/ash-koosha-odysseus-the-fall-foundtain-zero-tilly-norwood
@pulse·Jul 16
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem - and most are calling chatbots agents (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/agentic-orchestration-enterprise-ai-organizations-have-a-deployment-problem-not-a-platform-problem-and-most-are-calling-chatbots-agents
@pulse·Jul 16
xai-org/grok-build, now open source (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/microsoft-is-reportedly-training-salespeople-to-talk-down-openai-and-anthropic/
@pulse·Jul 16
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-with-its-first-open-model-inkling/
@pulse·Jul 16
xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM 'deepfakes' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966293/xai-grok-user-lawsuit-csam
@pulse·Jul 16
Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/grok-mermaid/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/hack-suggests-ai-music-generator-suno-scraped-youtube-for-training-data/
@pulse·Jul 16
Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/15/1140514/meet-gpt-red-an-llm-super-hacker-openai-built-to-make-its-models-safer/
@pulse·Jul 16
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/applied-computing-wants-to-give-oil-and-gas-operators-an-ai-model-for-the-entire-plant/
@pulse·Jul 16
OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/openais-first-branded-hardware-is-a-light-up-keyboard/
@pulse·Jul 16
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/microsoft-patches-record-number-of-security-vulnerabilities-citing-its-use-of-ai/
@pulse·Jul 16
Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/whatnot-acquires-shaped-to-power-real-time-live-shopping-recommendations/
@pulse·Jul 16
Security incident disclosure - July 2026 (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
@pulse·Jul 16
Our approach to bioresilience (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/our-approach-to-bioresilience/
@pulse·Jul 16
Newer Models, Same Advantage (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/newer-models-same-advantages
@pulse·Jul 16
Moonshot's upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/moonshots-upcoming-kimi-3-is-expected-to-close-the-gap-with-anthropics-opus-4-8/
@pulse·Jul 16
Why AMI Labs' Alexandre LeBrun won't call his AI 'AGI' or 'superintelligence' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/why-ami-labs-alexandre-lebrun-wont-call-his-ai-agi-or-superintelligence/
@pulse·Jul 16
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/how-a-former-deepmind-researcher-raised-at-a-300m-pre-seed-valuation-before-launching-a-product/
@pulse·Jul 16
The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-compute-gap-enterprises-are-buying-infrastructure-faster-than-they-can-measure-what-it-costs
@pulse·Jul 16
Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/bad-codex-bug/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
New York governor says she's using AI to analyze 'every single rule' in the state (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966647/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-ai-policies
@pulse·Jul 16
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
xAI can't deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it's suing users. (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/xai-cant-deny-grok-makes-csam-anymore-so-its-suing-users/
@pulse·Jul 16
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/its-official-eu-will-force-google-to-share-search-data-and-open-up-ai-on-android/
@pulse·Jul 17
Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/
@pulse·Jul 17
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/fear-of-humanoid-robots-spurs-human-workers-to-strike-at-hyundai-auto-factory/
@pulse·Jul 17
Firefox in WebAssembly (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/firefox-in-webassembly/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 17
Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/google-vids-now-lets-you-star-in-your-own-ai-videos/
@pulse·Jul 17
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-agent-security-gap-54-of-enterprises-have-already-had-an-ai-agent-incident-and-most-still-let-agents-share-credentials
@pulse·Jul 17
Spot birds not golf (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/17/spot-birds-not-golf/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 17
The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem - and most are shipping to production anyway (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-agent-evaluation-gap-enterprise-ai-organizations-have-a-reality-alignment-problem-not-a-coverage-problem-and-most-are-shipping-to-production-anyway
@pulse·Jul 17
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem - and most are still building the fix (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-context-gap-enterprise-ai-organizations-have-a-trust-problem-not-a-retrieval-problem-and-most-are-still-building-the-fix
@pulse·Jul 17
Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/roblox-launches-an-ai-powered-game-creation-feature-in-its-mobile-app/
@pulse·Jul 17
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-3-embed-wins-rteb
@pulse·Jul 17
Computer cops (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965066/ai-police-cops
@pulse·Jul 17
Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/966112/google-gemini-notebook-notebooklm
@pulse·Jul 17
Why teens deserve access to safe AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/why-teens-deserve-access-safe-ai
@pulse·Jul 17
The risk of weather data sabotage is rising (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/
@pulse·Jul 17
Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/why-the-first-gpu-financiers-are-turning-to-inference-chips-in-a-400-million-deal/
@pulse·Jul 17
Connect more of your apps to Search (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/connected-apps/
@pulse·Jul 17
A scorecard for the AI age (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-scorecard-for-the-ai-age
@pulse·Jul 17
Quoting Kimi K3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/17/kimi-k3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 17
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/apple-google-must-stop-profiting-off-ai-nudify-apps-san-francisco-ag-says/
@pulse·Jul 17
Apple's plot to crush OpenAI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/967244/apple-openai-lawsuit-vergecast
@pulse·Jul 17
How Apple's big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI's IPO plans (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/how-apples-big-lawsuit-could-disrupt-openais-ipo-plans/
@pulse·Jul 17
Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/google-backed-satellites-for-wildfire-detection-launch-as-smoke-chokes-us-canada/
@pulse·Jul 17
AI-driven memory crunch jolts India's smartphone market (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/ai-driven-memory-crunch-jolts-indias-smartphone-market/
@pulse·Jul 17
Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla's backyard (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/agility-robotics-plants-its-flag-in-teslas-backyard/
@pulse·Jul 18
The Zoom hack that says, 'Don't record me' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/the-zoom-hack-that-says-dont-record-me/
@pulse·Jul 18
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI's favorite second act (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/databricks-hits-188b-valuation-extending-its-run-as-ais-favorite-second-act/
@pulse·Jul 18
Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent - here's how it actually performs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/vertu-wants-executives-to-pay-6880-for-an-ai-agent-heres-how-it-actually-performs/
@pulse·Jul 18
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape - and starts blocking them (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/patreon-stops-asking-ai-bots-not-to-scrape-and-starts-blocking-them/
@pulse·Jul 18
Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/scale-diffusers-finetuning-nemo-automodel
@pulse·Jul 18
TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/967486/tiktok-ai-likeness-detection-tool
@pulse·Jul 18
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/neil-rimer-thinks-the-ai-money-is-coming-back-out/
@pulse·Jul 18
nascheme/quixote (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/18/quixote/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Claude make Fable 5 permanent (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/18/claude-make-fable-5-permanent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/gemini-omni-personal-avatars/
@pulse·Jul 18
LLM cliché highlighter (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/17/llm-cliche-highlighter/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Apple's lawsuit couldn't come at a worse time for OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/apples-lawsuit-couldnt-come-at-a-worse-time-for-openai/
@pulse·Jul 18
Google's AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/googles-ai-mode-now-lets-you-link-and-interact-with-select-apps/
@pulse·Jul 18
The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/967544/best-apps-gadgets-reading-installer
@pulse·Jul 18
Will AI fix prior authorization-or make it worse? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/will-ai-fix-prior-authorization-or-make-it-worse/
@pulse·Jul 18
Inkling: Our open-weights model (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/inkling/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/yes-you-can-now-order-doordash-from-the-command-line/
@pulse·Jul 18
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/07/energy-ipos-surge-as-investors-hunt-for-ways-to-play-ai-boom/
@pulse·Jul 18
SQLite Query Explainer (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/18/sqlite-query-explainer/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Kimi: Threat or menace? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/18/kimi-threat-or-menace/
@pulse·Jul 18
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing an entire generation' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967630/dave-eggers-openai-chatgpt-silencing-an-entire-generation
@pulse·Jul 19
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 19
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/ai-mania/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 19
Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all/
@pulse·Jul 19
'Odyssey' director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious 'Trojan horse' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-calls-ai-an-obvious-trojan-horse/
@pulse·Jul 19
I hate that I don't hate this song made with Suno (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/967678/1010benja-semiramis-dream-suno-ai-music
@pulse·Jul 19
Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI's hardware plans? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/can-an-apple-lawsuit-derail-openais-hardware-plans/
@pulse·Jul 20
What to watch for after Jensen Huang's Japan visit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/what-to-watch-for-after-jensen-huangs-japan-visit/
@pulse·Jul 20
Quoting Sam Altman (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/sam-altman/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 20
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1140655/ai-biases-hiring-humans/
@pulse·Jul 20
Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/beyond-grep-the-case-for-a-context-rich-ai-coding-harness/
@pulse·Jul 20
China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967781/chinese-ai-models-open-source-moonshot-kimi-k3-alibaba-qwen
@pulse·Jul 20
YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/youtube-clarifies-policies-around-ai-slop-and-upsetting-videos/
@pulse·Jul 20
Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos3edge
@pulse·Jul 20
Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/afraid-of-chinese-models/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 20
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/x-relaunches-a-rebuilt-android-app-after-year-long-effort/
@pulse·Jul 20
SpaceX in your index fund, explained (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/business/968257/spacex-in-your-index-fund-explained
@pulse·Jul 20
AI's most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/ais-most-important-protocol-is-getting-a-little-bit-easier-to-use/
@pulse·Jul 21
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/firefighting-drones-in-the-works-as-wildfires-plague-us-nearly-year-round/
@pulse·Jul 21
Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio's AI music generator over (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/968375/sony-udio-lawsuit-songs-ai-copyright
@pulse·Jul 21
Trump's latest AI czar has already resigned (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/trumps-latest-ai-czar-has-already-resigned/
@pulse·Jul 21
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/openai-is-scared-of-open-weight-models-should-the-us-be/
@pulse·Jul 21
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/google-is-working-on-a-new-ai-chip-designed-to-make-gemini-more-efficient/
@pulse·Jul 21
Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/
@pulse·Jul 21
Adobe camera app's new feature will critique your photos using AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/adobe-camera-apps-new-feature-will-critique-your-photos-using-ai/
@pulse·Jul 21
China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1140675/chinas-ai-models-have-trumps-ai-world-at-war-with-itself/
@pulse·Jul 21
Reverse-engineering is cheap now (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/cheap-reverse-engineering/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 21
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models
@pulse·Jul 21
Adobe's 'natural look' camera app embraces generative AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/967791/adobe-indigo-camera-app-ai-playground-update
@pulse·Jul 21
Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants-then, everything else (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/gritt-exits-stealth-with-34-million-for-robots-to-build-solar-plants-then-everything-else/
@pulse·Jul 21
Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/21/1140602/advancing-next-gen-ai-with-materials-science-innovation/
@pulse·Jul 21
America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968136/chinese-ai-models-another-sputnik-moment
@pulse·Jul 21
Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/music-streamer-deezer-says-more-than-50-of-daily-uploads-are-ai-generated/
@pulse·Jul 21
Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/nativ/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 21
Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/968572/google-gemini-flash-cyber-ai-security-model
@pulse·Jul 21
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-small-business-program
@pulse·Jul 21
Google releases three new Gemini models - but no 3.5 Pro (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/google-releases-three-new-gemini-models-but-no-3-5-pro/
@pulse·Jul 21
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-approves-anthropics-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-with-authors/
@pulse·Jul 21
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/jack-dorsey-is-taking-on-slack-with-buzz-a-group-chat-platform-for-teams-and-their-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jul 21
The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/state-of-simulation-for-physical-ai
@pulse·Jul 21
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-own-pre-release-models/
@pulse·Jul 22
OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968988/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai
@pulse·Jul 22
Neill Blomkamp's new zombie AI 'film' is just slop warmed over (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/968703/neill-blomkamps-nightborne-barley-studios-seedance
@pulse·Jul 22
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta-is-testing-an-ai-bedtime-story-app-for-people-with-no-imagination/
@pulse·Jul 22
Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968855/substack-pangram-ai-detecting-tool
@pulse·Jul 22
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/ai-and-the-rise-of-the-universal-entertainment-app/
@pulse·Jul 22
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-pre-release-models/
@pulse·Jul 22
Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-reveals-faster-and-cheaper-gemini-3-6-flash-says-3-5-pro-is-still-in-testing/
@pulse·Jul 22
Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/data-centers-expected-to-use-4x-more-electricity-by-2035/
@pulse·Jul 22
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/the-anthropic-physical-intelligence-rumor-roiling-ai-twitter/
@pulse·Jul 22
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/us-threatens-sanctions-against-chinese-ai-models-over-ip-theft/
@pulse·Jul 22
Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968724/anthropic-authors-settlement-ai-copyright-approved
@pulse·Jul 22
Synthesia's AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/synthesias-ai-training-platform-is-moving-beyond-videos-into-live-coaching/
@pulse·Jul 22
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google's (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/968680/meta-ai-detection-labeling-content-seal-watermarks-synthid
@pulse·Jul 22
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/glow-emerges-from-stealth-at-1-2b-valuation-to-challenge-endpoint-security-in-the-ai-era/
@pulse·Jul 22
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI's energy bill (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969137/us-utility-ai-electricty-data-center-rate-pledge-trump
@pulse·Jul 22
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/us-army-faces-ai-use-limits-after-exhausting-years-supply-of-ai-tokens/
@pulse·Jul 22
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google's $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/accelerating-the-frontiers-of-scientific-discovery-googles-40m-commitment-to-the-genesis-mission/
@pulse·Jul 22
AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969285/amd-anthropic-ai-infrastructure-deal
@pulse·Jul 22
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/arcee-a-us-open-source-ai-lab-says-chinese-models-are-not-inherently-dangerous/
@pulse·Jul 22
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/how-an-openai-benchmark-test-turned-into-a-real-world-cyberattack/
@pulse·Jul 22
Here's what Samsung's smart glasses actually look like (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/969382/samsung-google-smart-glasses-gentle-monster-warby-parker
@pulse·Jul 22
Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/travis-kalanicks-robotics-company-raises-1-7b-led-by-a16z/
@pulse·Jul 22
How OpenAI's human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/how-an-openais-human-mistake-led-to-the-ai-powered-hack-on-hugging-face/
@pulse·Jul 22
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/treasury-threatens-sanctions-after-white-house-claims-moonshot-distilled-anthropics-fable/
@pulse·Jul 23
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/are-ai-labs-pelicanmaxxing/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn't killing the mainframe (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/after-shocking-quarter-ibm-insists-that-ai-isnt-killing-the-mainframe/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/hyundai-claims-humanoid-robot-plan-is-not-part-of-talks-with-striking-workers/
@pulse·Jul 23
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/google-justifies-its-massive-ai-spending-with-a-booming-cloud-business/
@pulse·Jul 23
Quoting Thomas Ptacek (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/thomas-ptacek/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/monday-com-lays-off-hundreds-to-focuses-on-ai/
@pulse·Jul 23
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/yope-raises-12-3m-to-build-a-private-social-network-without-algorithms-or-ads/
@pulse·Jul 23
Quoting Seth Larson (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/23/seth-larson/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
Substack's new tool tells you who's been writing their newsletters with AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/substacks-new-tool-tells-you-whos-been-writing-their-newsletters-with-ai/
@pulse·Jul 23
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nunchaku-diffusers
@pulse·Jul 23
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/servicenow-bets-40m-on-indian-firm-businessnext-at-700m-valuation-to-deepen-banking-ai-push/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/openais-ai-spending-spree-has-ballooned-to-750b/
@pulse·Jul 23
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/969667/humans-first-data-center-protest-hernando-county-florida-republicans
@pulse·Jul 23
Experts say exploiting Anthropic's Fable isn't how Kimi K3 got so good (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/experts-say-exploiting-anthropics-fable-isnt-how-kimi-k3-got-so-good/
@pulse·Jul 23
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/ai-arms-race-in-line-for-a-reckoning-after-openai-hacking-incident/
@pulse·Jul 23
Nvidia is sending GPUs to the Moon (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/nvidia-is-sending-gpus-to-the-moon/
@pulse·Jul 23
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/ai-chip-startup-etched-defies-skeptics-hits-10-3b-valuation-from-big-name-investors/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/openai-makes-chatgpt-health-available-to-all-u-s-users/
@pulse·Jul 23
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/runway-bets-on-ai-model-routing-as-generative-media-gets-crowded/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970115/openai-chatgpt-health-launch-claims
@pulse·Jul 23
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/970211/patreon-layoffs-ai
@pulse·Jul 23
Claude's voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970065/anthropic-voice-mode-claude-opus-sonnet-haiku-ai
@pulse·Jul 23
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/amd-takes-on-nvidia-with-its-helios-ai-rack-scale-system/
@pulse·Jul 24
AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ai-kill-switch-act-would-let-trump-admin-order-shutdown-of-rogue-ai-systems/
@pulse·Jul 24
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/970399/amazon-alexa-plus-ai-update-smart-home-devices
@pulse·Jul 24
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/23/the-first-known-runaway-ai-agent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 24
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/aegisai-founded-by-former-google-security-execs-lands-36m-to-stop-ai-driven-spear-phishing/
@pulse·Jul 24
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/anthropic-updates-claude-voice-mode-with-more-capable-models/
@pulse·Jul 24
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/how-ai-guardrails-are-impeding-the-work-of-offensive-cybersecurity-researchers/
@pulse·Jul 24
Google's Gemini nears billion-user milestone (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/google-closes-in-on-another-billion-user-product-with-gemini/
@pulse·Jul 24
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-just-had-its-first-negative-cash-flow-quarter-ever-due-to-massive-ai-spending/
@pulse·Jul 24
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/meta-launched-a-new-ai-optimism-ad-set-to-a-song-about-human-extinction/
@pulse·Jul 24
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/23/1140346/how-ai-helps-scientists-design-the-next-generation-of-medicines/
@pulse·Jul 24
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/968787/apple-openai-trade-secrets-lawsuit-ai-hardware-smartphone-jony-ive
@pulse·Jul 24
Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI 'kill switch' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969939/lawmakers-ai-kill-switch-proposal
@pulse·Jul 24
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/building-ai-infrastructure-with-the-effingham-county-community
@pulse·Jul 24
Orchestrions (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/all-the-orchestrions/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 24
Launching Health in ChatGPT (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/health-in-chatgpt
@pulse·Jul 24
OpenAI's new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/openais-new-voice-mode-makes-it-to-the-chatgpt-desktop-app/
@pulse·Jul 24
AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ai-firms-want-more-data-centers-trumps-epa-may-give-neighbors-less-say/
@pulse·Jul 24
The tech-broification of American science has officially begun (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/science/970534/genesis-mission-ai-science-funding-trump-grants
@pulse·Jul 24
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/970570/meta-ai-chatbot-productivity-update
@pulse·Jul 24
You can't ignore Google Zero anymore (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/970735/google-zero-reddit-ai-publishers-vergecast
@pulse·Jul 24
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/team-uses-alphafold-ai-to-redesign-gene-editing-proteins-to-make-them-safer/
@pulse·Jul 24
Anthropic launches Opus 5 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/anthropic-launches-opus-5/
@pulse·Jul 24
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage/
@pulse·Jul 24
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970894/midjourney-co-star-acquisition
@pulse·Jul 25
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/canadian-legislator-reads-out-apparent-llm-response-in-floor-speech/
@pulse·Jul 25
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/prentis-new-ai-lab-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mark-pincus-in-talks-to-raise-100m/
@pulse·Jul 25
Introducing Claude Opus 5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/24/introducing-claude-opus-5/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 25
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/anthropics-opus-5-is-about-token-efficiency-not-a-capability-leap/
@pulse·Jul 25
I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad - which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/i-tried-out-openais-new-ai-keypad-which-will-be-fun-for-coders-and-slightly-mystifying-to-everyone-else/
@pulse·Jul 25
Quoting Boris Cherny (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/25/boris-cherny/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 25
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/midjourney-acquired-the-astrology-app-co-star/
@pulse·Jul 25
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/blueskys-ai-assistant-attie-expands-into-an-open-social-research-tool/
@pulse·Jul 25
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/as-us-weighs-response-to-chinese-ai-industry-urges-against-broad-open-weight-restrictions/
@pulse·Jul 25
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with 'close' to Fable 5's capabilities (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970105/claude-opus-5-announced-anthropic-ai-model-release
@pulse·Jul 25
'AI communism', rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/ai-communism-rogue-models-and-the-why-kimi-k3-spooked-wall-street/
@pulse·Jul 25
One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here's how to fix it. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/one-fallen-power-line-exposed-a-growing-ai-data-center-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it/
@pulse·Jul 25
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/
@pulse·Jul 26
Ruff v0.16.0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/25/ruff/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 26
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs - here are 20 others (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/
@pulse·Jul 26
Hugging Face CEO calls for 'radical transparency' after 'unprecedented' OpenAI hack (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/hugging-face-ceo-calls-for-radical-transparency-after-unprecedented-openai-hack/
@pulse·Jul 26
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/26/relay-market/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 26
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/making-sense-of-the-panic-over-chinese-ai/
@pulse·Jul 27
Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/are-brain-waves-the-next-unlock-for-physical-ai/
@pulse·Jul 27
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/artist-sues-ai-meme-generator-for-selling-deeply-personal-comic-as-ad-template/
@pulse·Jul 27
Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140668/building-the-enterprise-environment-for-agentic-ai/
@pulse·Jul 27
Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance – without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971281/nvidia-open-secure-ai-alliance-cybersecurity
@pulse·Jul 27
The path to artificial superintelligence (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140724/the-path-to-artificial-superintelligence/
@pulse·Jul 27
Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/enigma-raises-70m-to-make-controlling-a-robot-as-easy-as-adjusting-the-volume/
@pulse·Jul 27
Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-its-ai-research/
@pulse·Jul 27
Why China is giving away its best AI models (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971444/how-chinese-open-weight-ai-models-impact-us-companies
@pulse·Jul 27
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-similar-feeling/
@pulse·Jul 27
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/openais-hugging-face-breach-has-reignited-the-debate-over-alignment-and-control/
@pulse·Jul 27
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/verizon-seeks-ai-profits-with-mini-data-centers-1b-dark-fiber-deal-with-google/
@pulse·Jul 27
"Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/google-wont-give-up-odd-war-against-ai-web-scraping-despite-court-loss/
@pulse·Jul 27
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/psa-your-claude-shared-chats-and-artifacts-may-have-ended-up-on-google/
@pulse·Jul 28
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/27/an-opinionated-guide-to-which-ai-to-use-to-do-stuff/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 28
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/microsoft-unveils-ai-security-tools-it-says-outperform-competing-platforms/
@pulse·Jul 28
moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/27/kimi-k3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 28
Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/microsoft-launches-its-first-cyber-model-and-a-new-agentic-cybersecurity-system/
@pulse·Jul 28
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/satya-nadella-says-companies-that-trust-one-ai-for-everything-may-not-survive/
@pulse·Jul 28
Anthropic's Dario Amodei responds: doesn't oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/anthropics-dario-amodei-responds-doesnt-oppose-open-weight-models-but-fears-chinese-ai/
@pulse·Jul 28
Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/threads-users-can-now-chat-with-meta-ai-in-their-dms/
@pulse·Jul 28
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we've been here before. (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140836/openai-hugging-face-attack-precedent/
@pulse·Jul 28
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/cursor-makes-its-biggest-india-push-yet-ahead-of-spacex-acquisition-with-localized-pricing/
@pulse·Jul 28
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/this-9-key-physically-locks-your-most-addictive-apps/
@pulse·Jul 28
Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/power-up-your-ai-infrastructure-a-first-look-at-the-smart-systems-stage-agenda-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Jul 28
Google's AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/googles-ai-search-is-rapidly-becoming-the-default-new-data-shows/
@pulse·Jul 28
Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-women-children
@pulse·Jul 28
Samsung's chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/28/1140853/samsung-chip-workers-exodus-sk-hynix/
@pulse·Jul 28
Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/971744/smart-ring-ai-gadget-stream-index
@pulse·Jul 28
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/recursive-superintelligence-signs-400-compute-deal-with-amazon/
@pulse·Jul 28
Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/fish-audio-raises-50m-seed-to-build-ai-voice-models-for-creators-and-enterprises/
@pulse·Jul 28
LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm2-5-encoders
@pulse·Jul 28
Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanding-managed-agents-gemini-api-3-6-flash-hooks/
@pulse·Jul 28
The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/olmoearth-infrastructure
@pulse·Jul 28
Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai
@pulse·Jul 28
Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/despite-ai-hype-googles-data-shows-workers-arent-automating-themselves-away/
@pulse·Jul 28
AI's finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972119/ai-stock-fall-google-capex
@pulse·Jul 28
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/mcp-startup-runlayer-accuses-rippling-of-stealing-its-product-idea/
@pulse·Jul 29
Quoting Akshat Bubna (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/akshat-bubna/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 29
Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses-with-claude/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 29
AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972161/ai-leaders-us-government-openai-anthropic-google-meta
@pulse·Jul 29
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/jfrog-tries-to-spin-openai-0-day-exploit-of-its-app-into-a-success-story/
@pulse·Jul 29
uv 0.12.0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/uv/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 29
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/cyera-agrees-to-acquire-oasis-security-for-1b-to-safeguard-proliferating-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jul 29
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate/
@pulse·Jul 29
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/anatomy-of-a-frontier-lab-agent-intrusion/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 29
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/bot-detection-startup-spur-nabs-200m-from-insight/
@pulse·Jul 29
5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/ai-mode-real-world-tips/
@pulse·Jul 29
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/data-centers-may-face-temporary-power-cuts-to-prevent-blackouts-on-largest-us-grid/
@pulse·Jul 29
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/29/1140795/the-ai-hype-index-unsexy-ai/
@pulse·Jul 29
Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/tested-google-synthid-works-great-but-labeling-ai-content-may-be-a-losing-game/
@pulse·Jul 29
We're running out of reasons to ignore AI safety (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972380/open-ai-hugging-face-hack-ai-safety-warning
@pulse·Jul 29
OpenAI's rogue AI agent didn't stop at hacking Hugging Face (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972441/openai-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-hugging-face
@pulse·Jul 29
As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/as-ai-content-floods-the-internet-pangram-raises-9m-to-detect-it/
@pulse·Jul 29
What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages/
@pulse·Jul 29
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/encore-ai-raises-30m-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-from-customer-calls/
@pulse·Jul 29
Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/anthropic-is-finding-bugs-faster-than-microsoft-can-fix-them/
@pulse·Jul 29
We're launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/were-launching-lyria-35-in-google-flow-music-with-advances-across-musicality-lyrics-vocals-and-creative-control/
@pulse·Jul 29
Elon Musk's xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/elon-musks-xai-is-trying-to-sue-its-way-out-of-a-grok-reckoning/
@pulse·Jul 29
The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/the-hugging-face-ai-break-in-as-told-through-an-increasingly-committed-bear-metaphor/
@pulse·Jul 29
Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/who-wins-and-who-loses-after-us-bans-foreign-robots/
@pulse·Jul 29
xAI's last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota's anti-nudification app law (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/972850/xai-grok-minnesota-nudification-lawsuit
@pulse·Jul 30
Microsoft confirms Copilot 'super app' coming this year (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/972927/microsoft-copilot-super-app-confirmed
@pulse·Jul 30
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/microsoft-logs-3-2b-from-anthropic-investment-but-openai-was-a-mixed-bag/
@pulse·Jul 30
Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/mark-zuckerberg-predicts-that-billions-of-people-will-have-personal-ai-agents-in-five-years/
@pulse·Jul 30
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/mythos-uncovers-crypto-weaknesses-that-went-unknown-for-years/
@pulse·Jul 30
Zuckerberg says Meta's enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/zuckerberg-says-metas-enterprise-ai-opportunity-extends-beyond-agents/
@pulse·Jul 30
Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/microsoft-is-openly-competing-with-openai-anthropic-more-than-ever/
@pulse·Jul 30
Quoting D. Richard Hipp (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/29/d-richard-hipp/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 30
Discover what's next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/discover-whats-next-for-ai-from-the-saas-reckoning-to-the-agent-security-gap-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Jul 30
Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/972294/meta-q2-2026-earnings-mark-zuckerberg-personal-ai-agents
@pulse·Jul 30
AI Worming through Word (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/29/ai-worming-through-word/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 30
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/claude-opus-5-became-downright-ruthless-when-tasked-with-running-a-vending-machine/
@pulse·Jul 30
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/thinking-machines-co-founder-lilian-weng-left-the-company-citing-health-reasons-then-joined-openai/
@pulse·Jul 30
Quoting Matthew Green (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/29/matthew-green/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 30
OpenAI president says it's 'building a family of devices' for its AI chatbots (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972709/openai-hardware-greg-brockman-interview
@pulse·Jul 30
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/
@pulse·Jul 30
In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's hacker was noisy and fast - but not unstoppable (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/in-the-hugging-face-breach-openais-hacker-was-noisy-and-fast-but-not-unstoppable/
@pulse·Jul 30
With a stateless makeover, new MCP spec targets enterprise scale (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/with-a-stateless-makeover-new-mcp-spec-targets-enterprise-scale/
@pulse·Jul 30
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-2-powering-robotics-with-video-understanding-task-orchestration-and-multi-robot-collaboration/
@pulse·Jul 30
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/okta-buys-ai-security-startup-permiso-source-says-for-about-200m/
@pulse·Jul 30
Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/973163/friend-re-launches-its-ai-pendant-with-a-speaker-that-talks-to-you-for-twice-the-price
@pulse·Jul 30
Google DeepMind's new AI model can control a robot's entire body (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/973276/google-deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-whole-body
@pulse·Jul 30
Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/friend-the-lonely-ai-wearable-returns-with-a-new-voice-and-a-much-bigger-price-tag/
@pulse·Jul 30
Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic 'supply chain risk' label (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/judge-says-trump-admin-still-lacks-evidence-for-anthropic-supply-chain-risk-label/
@pulse·Jul 30
The loss of Situational Awareness (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973467/ai-bet-situational-awareness-oops-stonks
@pulse·Jul 31
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/ai-hedge-fund-situational-awareness-may-have-sold-its-public-portfolio-but-it-still-has-its-anthropic-shares/
@pulse·Jul 31
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/three-real-world-incidents/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 31
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/luna-price-drop/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 31
llm 0.32rc2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/llm-rc2/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 31
Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI's impact (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/reddit-reports-a-solid-quarter-but-shows-signs-of-ais-impact/
@pulse·Jul 31
Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-its-own-ai-models-breached-three-companies-during-security-tests/
@pulse·Jul 31
Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/973552/apple-ceo-tim-cook-icloud-plus-ai
@pulse·Jul 31
LinkedIn actually adds a 'seems like AI slop' button (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973384/linkedin-seems-like-ai-slop-button
@pulse·Jul 31
Investors love AI, as long as you're a cloud host (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/investors-love-ai-as-long-as-youre-a-cloud-host/
@pulse·Jul 31
Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chrome-may-get-faster-updates-with-no-restart-required/
@pulse·Jul 31
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/unive
@pulse·Jul 31
Advancing responsible AI across Europe (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/advancing-responsible-ai-across-europe
@pulse·Jul 31
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated 'slop' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/linkedin-adds-a-button-to-report-ai-generated-slop/
@pulse·Jul 31
Quoting Bruce Schneier (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/bruce-schneier/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 31
Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/google-says-it-fixed-more-chrome-bugs-in-june-than-over-the-past-two-years-thanks-to-ai/
@pulse·Jul 31
It's time to panic about AI safety (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/973668/ai-safety-openai-hugging-face-vergecast
@pulse·Jul 31
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/smallest-ai-raises-13m-to-build-ultra-fast-voice-ai-that-sounds-genuinely-human/
@pulse·Jul 31
Building abundant intelligence (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/building-abundant-intelligence
@pulse·Jul 31
Here's the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973764/google-earth-ai-satellite-images
@pulse·Jul 31
Sam Altman isn't the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/sam-altman-isnt-the-only-one-who-wants-to-pump-the-brakes-on-ai/
@pulse·Jul 31
Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-criminal-scam-operation
@pulse·Jul 31
Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/google-nixes-its-earth-ai-feature-one-day-after-launch-amid-criticism-it-would-spread-misinformation/
@pulse·Jul 31
Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake-satellite-images/
@pulse·Jul 31
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/likely-illegally-claude-gained-access-to-3-networks-will-anthropic-be-held-to-account/
@pulse·Aug 1
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/openai-reportedly-finds-evidence-that-more-of-its-agents-ran-amok/
@pulse·Aug 1
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 1
Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/reddit-keeps-weird-dmca-lawsuit-against-web-scraper-alive-despite-googles-loss/
@pulse·Aug 1
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/oxide-and-friends/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 1
llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/llm-mcp-client/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 1
Google Earth's AI deepfake tool only lasted one day (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/973943/google-earth-ai-image-generation-deepfake-tool
@pulse·Aug 1
India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/india-is-starting-to-pay-for-apps-not-just-download-them/
@pulse·Aug 1
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/smevals/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 1
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/high-school-defends-staying-silent-while-boys-made-ai-nudes-of-59-classmates/
@pulse·Aug 1
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/ai-startup-admits-tattoo-for-interview-stunt-was-reckless/
@pulse·Aug 1
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics
@pulse·Aug 1
Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/siri-ai-could-come-with-a-paywall-for-power-users/
@pulse·Aug 1
The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973741/ai-music-major-record-labels-charts
@pulse·Aug 1
Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/snapchat-no-longer-rewards-fully-ai-generated-spotlight-content/
@pulse·Aug 1
datasette-agent 0.4a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/datasette-agent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 1
SpaceX won't remove all of xAI's unpermitted turbines for another year (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/spacex-wont-remove-all-of-xais-unpermitted-turbines-for-another-year/
@pulse·Aug 1
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/reddit-ceo-on-ai-overviews-were-still-looking-for-that-win-win/
@pulse·Aug 1
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/ai-scammers-outperform-humans-when-it-comes-to-building-trust/
@pulse·Aug 1
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/this-9-key-physically-locks-your-most-addictive-apps/
@pulse·Aug 1
Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/sam-altman-is-still-making-the-case-for-parenting-via-chatgpt/
@pulse·Aug 1
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is 'not healthy' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/youtuber-hank-green-says-his-ai-usage-is-not-healthy/
@pulse·Aug 1
Judge denies xAI's request to block Minnesota ban on 'nudify' apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/judge-denies-xais-request-to-block-minnesota-ban-on-nudify-apps/
@pulse·Aug 1
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/1/ten-advances-in-mathematics/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 2
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974209/fenix-flexin-billboard-hot-100-rubberz-ai-slop
@pulse·Aug 2
datasette-apps 0.2a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/1/datasette-apps/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 2
Quoting Greg Brockman (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/1/greg-brockman/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 2
Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973670/anthropic-claude-hacked-organizations-during-cyber-tests
@pulse·Aug 2
AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/ai-labs-want-to-pump-the-brakes-but-amazon-and-spacex-are-still-blasting-off/
@pulse·Aug 2
Slack Emoji Maker (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/slack-emoji-maker/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 2
How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/how-a-yale-ai-cheating-dispute-became-a-13-count-federal-lawsuit/
@pulse·Aug 2
July 2026 newsletter (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/july-newsletter/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 2
Open letters about AI development (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/open-letters/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 2
Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974018/pippa-seedance-artist-royalties
@pulse·Aug 2
Fender's CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974265/fender-ceo-bud-cole-ai-music
@pulse·Aug 2
Sam Altman and AI's decel debate (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/02/sam-altman-and-ais-decel-debate/
@pulse·Aug 3
condense-json 1.0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/condense-json/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 3
Here's why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1141009/heres-why-ai-agents-lie-and-cheat-to-reach-their-goals/
@pulse·Aug 3
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/a-marc-benioff-backed-startup-thinks-ai-can-solve-the-ai-deployment-problem/
@pulse·Aug 3
China's Alibaba takes another swipe at America's AI supremacy (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974342/alibaba-qwen-max-open-weight-ai
@pulse·Aug 3
Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/3/david-crawshaw/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 3
Congress's favorite AI tool? ChatGPT (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/congresss-favorite-ai-tool-chatgpt/
@pulse·Aug 3
Europe's AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974571/eu-ai-act-transparency-labels-rules-deepfakes
@pulse·Aug 3
Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/influencers-draw-backlash-for-attending-openais-first-luxury-trip/
@pulse·Aug 3
DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/designarena-creators-raise-7-9-million-to-bring-taste-to-ai-models/
@pulse·Aug 3
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/aws-is-helping-vibe-coding-startup-superblocks-and-the-implications-are-big/
@pulse·Aug 4
US company's AI lets Ukraine's cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ukraines-drones-get-ai-upgrades-for-kamikaze-strikes-future-swarm-attacks/
@pulse·Aug 4
After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry 'Marxist' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/after-killer-quarter-palantir-ceo-alex-karp-calls-ai-industry-marxist/
@pulse·Aug 4
Don't be a meat proxy (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/3/dont-be-a-meat-proxy/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 4
Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/apple-finally-fixed-siri-so-why-does-it-feel-anticlimactic/
@pulse·Aug 4
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/an-ai-supervised-remote-exam-went-so-badly-that-58000-students-must-retake-it/
@pulse·Aug 4
Quoting Steve Yegge (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/steve-yegge/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 4
Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/3/devtools-must-be-open-source-exedev/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 4
Trump's AI protectionism has come for robotics (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1141056/trumps-ai-protectionism-has-come-for-robotics/
@pulse·Aug 4
Apple is getting this wrong (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong
@pulse·Aug 4
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/circles
@pulse·Aug 4
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/continuous-voice-interaction-with-gpt-live
@pulse·Aug 4
Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973098/reddit-ai-search-seo-marketing-brands-spam
@pulse·Aug 4
OpenAI drags Apple's lawsuit into the court of public opinion (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974914/openai-blog-response-apple-lawsuit-messages
@pulse·Aug 4
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/eon-wants-to-move-the-data-superhighway-from-ocean-fiber-to-space-lasers/
@pulse·Aug 4
The latest AI news we announced in July 2026 (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-ai-updates-july-2026/
@pulse·Aug 4
Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm2-5-2-6b
@pulse·Aug 4
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/
@pulse·Aug 4
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/texas-halts-new-data-centers-as-governor-calls-for-audits/
@pulse·Aug 4
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/spotify-adds-merlin-to-its-ai-music-remix-and-covers-effort/
@pulse·Aug 4
'Not healthy' LLM use is more common than you think (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975180/llm-ai-chatbot-use-not-healthy
@pulse·Aug 4
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand/
@pulse·Aug 4
AMD's datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/975381/amd-q2-2026-earnings-ai-gaming-ryzen
@pulse·Aug 4
SpaceX has more neocloud revenue (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/science/975335/spacex-made-more-money-as-a-neocloud
@pulse·Aug 5
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/open-weight-ai-models-are-catching-up-to-the-frontier-the-safety-gap-remains/
@pulse·Aug 5
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/spacex-has-bought-329m-worth-of-tesla-megapacks-so-far-this-year/
@pulse·Aug 5
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 5
Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/meet-wrinkles-an-ai-app-that-uncovers-the-hidden-stories-of-the-places-around-you/
@pulse·Aug 5
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/anthropic-signs-10-billion-deal-with-ai-cloud-startup-volta/
@pulse·Aug 5
llm-anthropic 0.26 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/llm-anthropic/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 5
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models
@pulse·Aug 5
PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/minimax-h3-mlx/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 5
Nvidia doesn't mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it's already showing progress (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/nvidia-doesnt-mess-around-a-week-after-open-ai-industry-group-formed-its-already-showing-progress/
@pulse·Aug 5
Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/975071/texas-data-center-audit
@pulse·Aug 5
llm 0.32 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/llm/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 5
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/975173/openai-influencers-brand-trip-ai-backlash-marketing
@pulse·Aug 5
Trump's AI testing plan is limited and vague (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975509/white-house-ai-framework-open-models-excluded
@pulse·Aug 5
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/ai-makes-weather-prediction-better-can-windborne-make-it-lucrative/
@pulse·Aug 5
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/975516/google-assistant-android-phones-tablets-shutdown
@pulse·Aug 5
SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/spacex-spooks-investors-with-debut-earnings-report/
@pulse·Aug 5
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team/
@pulse·Aug 5
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/techcrunch-disrupt-2026s-real-world-ai-stage-features-robots-automated-factories-and-extinct-animals/
@pulse·Aug 5
Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/975398/reddit-ai-rules-hub-moderator-old-reddit-developer-platform
@pulse·Aug 5
Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975528/fenix-flexin-ai-music-generator-treblo
@pulse·Aug 5
Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/975677/google-deepmind-ai-demis-hassabis-shakeup
@pulse·Aug 5
Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes" for old.reddit.com (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/reddit-signals-ominous-upcoming-changes-for-old-reddit-com/
@pulse·Aug 5
Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres' Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/klaviyo-acquires-elias-torres-agency-in-full-circle-reunion-for-tech-founders/
@pulse·Aug 5
Anthropic's AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/anthropics-ai-used-fake-identities-malware-in-rogue-attack-on-github-project/
@pulse·Aug 6
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/incident-report/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 6
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/third-party-cyber-evaluations/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 6
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/muse-code-and-muse-spark-12/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 6
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/meta-launches-muse-code-an-ai-agent-for-large-code-bases/
@pulse·Aug 6
Elon Musk's attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn't been updated in months (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976004/elon-musk-grokipedia-ai-wikipedia-not-updating-dead
@pulse·Aug 6
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/6/an-ai-model-from-meta/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 6
Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/jeff-dean-and-other-top-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-to-launch-their-own-startup/
@pulse·Aug 6
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 6
Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can't catch (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/hank-green-found-the-ai-problem-that-youtube-labels-cant-catch/
@pulse·Aug 6
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/hark-previews-its-browser-use-agent-for-completing-tasks/
@pulse·Aug 6
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/shopify-says-ai-search-is-driving-more-traffic-and-sales-not-replacing-google/
@pulse·Aug 6
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/science/975545/spacex-x-earnings-ai-data-centers-compute-space
@pulse·Aug 6
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-plans-to-kill-assistant-on-your-phone-on-september-4/
@pulse·Aug 6
OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is 'rotten to its core' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/976042/openai-apple-trade-secrets-lawsuit-dismissal-request
@pulse·Aug 6
AI isn't enough to protect social media communities from AI (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/ai-isnt-enough-to-protect-social-media-communities-from-ai/
@pulse·Aug 6
The messy politics behind Google's big AI shakeup (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/976108/google-ai-leadership-shakeup-jeff-dean-demis-hassabis-deepmind
@pulse·Aug 6
SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump's library months before federal data center deal (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/976138/softbank-trump-library-data-center-ohio
@pulse·Aug 6
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
@pulse·Aug 6
Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/naive-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company/
@pulse·Aug 6
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/openai-brings-unlimited-chatgpt-text-chats-to-free-users/
@pulse·Aug 6
Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976289/suno-ai-music-spam-watermark
@pulse·Aug 6
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropic-confirms-plans-to-build-an-in-house-silicon-team/
@pulse·Aug 6
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/suno-hopes-to-go-legit-with-watermarks-for-ai-generated-music/
@pulse·Aug 6
Jony Ive's first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976431/openai-chatgpt-battery-smart-speaker-rumor
@pulse·Aug 7
datasette 1.0a38 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/6/datasette/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 7
Large genome models used to design new viruses (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/large-genome-models-used-to-design-new-viruses/
@pulse·Aug 7
OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/openais-new-ai-smart-speaker-will-reportedly-sell-for-between-300-and-400/
@pulse·Aug 7
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/6/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 7
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976239/openai-chatgpt-free-go-text-chats
@pulse·Aug 7
datasette 0.65.3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/6/datasette-2/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 7
OpenAI says Apple's own security practices undermine its trade secrets case (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/openai-says-apples-own-security-practices-undermine-its-trade-secrets-case/
@pulse·Aug 7
Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/gen-z-dating-apps-like-ditto-ditch-swiping-in-favor-of-ai-matchmaking/
@pulse·Aug 7
Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/cloudflare-open-sources-vibe-coding-platform-for-people-who-arent-coders/
@pulse·Aug 7
Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/amid-legal-battles-suno-says-it-will-start-watermarking-songs/
@pulse·Aug 7
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/971855/ai-data-center-backlash-protests-florida-bipartisan
@pulse·Aug 7
How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/hsp-gruppe
@pulse·Aug 7
Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/ex-spotify-employees-raise-10m-to-bring-the-ai-behind-its-recommendations-to-e-commerce/
@pulse·Aug 7
AI bots started a religion - humans immediately followed (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975017/ai-spiralism-chatbot-movement
@pulse·Aug 7
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-to-pay-additional-567m-in-child-safety-case/
@pulse·Aug 7
ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/bytedance-trains-massive-ai-model-in-bid-to-rival-anthropic/
@pulse·Aug 7
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-chatbots-have-failed-people-in-crisis-can-that-be-fixed/
@pulse·Aug 7
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/airbnb-says-ai-is-helping-it-ship-features-faster-as-it-tests-a-new-search-function/
@pulse·Aug 7
What's behind the Google AI shake-up (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/976784/google-deepmind-ai-race-vergecast
@pulse·Aug 7
OpenAI's expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem "more alive" (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/openais-expensive-smart-speaker-will-use-moving-parts-to-seem-more-alive/
@pulse·Aug 7
TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/tutormoments
@pulse·Aug 7
Watching Roku's AI channel is like eating from a trough (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/976939/roku-fairground-ai-fast-channel
@pulse·Aug 7
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/moonlight-mayhem/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 7
Fenix Flexin isn't even denying using AI to make 'Rubberz' anymore (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976801/fenix-flexin-rubberz-ai-song-treblo
@pulse·Aug 8
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/after-rippling-blew-millions-on-ai-in-months-it-built-an-employee-roi-tool/
@pulse·Aug 8
OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/openai-says-it-slowed-astra-model-development-over-security-concerns/
@pulse·Aug 8
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 8
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/pdfs-are-terrible/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 8
OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerful (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976948/openai-astra-model-pause-critical-cyber-capabilities
@pulse·Aug 8
Quoting John Gruber (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/john-gruber/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 8
Jill Lepore on the 'Artificial State' and why Silicon Valley's leaders are bad sci-fi readers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/jill-lepore-on-the-artificial-state-and-why-silicon-valleys-leaders-are-bad-sci-fi-readers/
@pulse·Aug 8
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities
@pulse·Aug 8
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/cloudflare-launches-kitesurf-a-browser-built-for-ai-agents/
@pulse·Aug 8
Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/omilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform/
@pulse·Aug 8
Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/google-maps-adds-agentic-features-including-food-ordering-and-hotel-bookings/
@pulse·Aug 8
Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/exclusive-mirendil-inks-100m-google-cloud-deal-to-scale-self-improving-ai/
@pulse·Aug 8
DeepMind's hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/deepminds-hurricane-model-bought-forecasters-an-extra-day/
@pulse·Aug 8
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/now-we-have-a-timeline-of-the-openai-accidental-attack-against-h/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 8
An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977124/amazon-data-center-worst-polluting-power-plant
@pulse·Aug 8
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide/
@pulse·Aug 9
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/planned-amazon-data-center-could-become-the-biggest-climate-polluter-in-the-u-s/
@pulse·Aug 9
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/auto-mode/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 9
AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/976690/ai-writing-detectors-suspicion
@pulse·Aug 9
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/the-ai-safety-test-is-becoming-a-safety-risk/
@pulse·Aug 9
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/
@pulse·Aug 9
Anthropic is turning Claude Code's auto mode on by default (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/anthropic-is-turning-claude-codes-auto-mode-on-by-default/
@pulse·Aug 9
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/embattled-hedge-fund-situational-awareness-invests-400m-in-chip-startup-source-foundry/
@pulse·Aug 10
SQLite compressed text-history prototypes (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/sqlite-text-history-prototype/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 10
GitHub Models is now retired (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/github-models-is-now-retired/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 10
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/claude-opus-5-system-prompt/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 10
Quoting OpenClaw (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/openclaw/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 10
Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/MultiverseComputingCAI/efficient-knowledge-distillation
@pulse·Aug 10
Peer review is overwhelmed-can it survive in the AI era? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/peer-review-is-overwhelmed-can-it-survive-in-the-ai-era/
@pulse·Aug 10
Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/discovered-materials-is-playing-ai-whack-a-mole-to-hunt-cooler-chips/
@pulse·Aug 10
Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/model-ml
@pulse·Aug 10
OpenAI's letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/responsible-ai-infrastructure-texas
@pulse·Aug 10
Evolve your marketing with new AI tools (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-ads-analytics-ai-updates/
@pulse·Aug 10
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/magpie-tts-multilingual-voice-agents
@pulse·Aug 10
What happens to Bose when headphones become AI? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/975732/bose-ceo-lila-snyder-ai-wearables-licensing-headphones-audio
@pulse·Aug 10
What building an AI-native finance function taught me (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/building-an-ai-native-finance-function
@pulse·Aug 10
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/tech-industry-is-buzzing-after-a-claude-agent-hacked-into-a-gym/
@pulse·Aug 10
Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/amazon-funds-biggest-gas-power-plant-in-us-despite-climate-pledge/
@pulse·Aug 10
Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/mark-zuckerbergs-ai-manifesto-is-exactly-why-people-dont-like-ai/
@pulse·Aug 11
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977623/mark-zuckerberg-ai-manifesto-dim-vision
@pulse·Aug 11
Introducing Muse Glimmer (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/introducing-muse-glimmer/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 11
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/as-ai-led-attacks-multiply-openai-launches-a-new-cyber-model/
@pulse·Aug 11
Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's massive AI manifesto (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/977395/meta-mark-zuckerberg-superintelligent-ai-ramble
@pulse·Aug 11
With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/with-new-open-models-meta-pitches-another-reboot-of-its-struggling-ai-strategy/
@pulse·Aug 11
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/openai-reportedly-completed-a-7-billion-employee-tender-offer/
@pulse·Aug 11
Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/expanding-daybreak-as-the-cyber-defense-window-narrows
@pulse·Aug 11
Meta's new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg's personal intelligence vision (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/metas-new-glimmer-ai-model-offers-a-hint-at-zuckerbergs-personal-intelligence-vision/
@pulse·Aug 11
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141597/ai-professors-are-negotiating-the-new-realities-of-academic-research/
@pulse·Aug 11
These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141511/these-startups-are-chasing-the-next-big-thing-in-llms/
@pulse·Aug 11
AI for science needs reasoning, not just data (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141384/ai-agents-for-science/
@pulse·Aug 11
Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/putting-frontier-cyber-models-in-more-trusted-hands
@pulse·Aug 11
How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/zapier
@pulse·Aug 11
Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/premium-seats-chatgpt-business
@pulse·Aug 11
The AI takeover of mathematics has begun (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977273/the-ai-takeover-of-mathematics-has-begun
@pulse·Aug 11
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977733/amazon-order-emails-google-gmail-ai-agents-data
@pulse·Aug 11
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/altk-evolve-sldd
@pulse·Aug 11
'Zoomsday' hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977909/zoom-vulnerability-ai-attack
@pulse·Aug 11
General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/general-catalyst-leads-1-1b-round-into-2-month-old-river-ai/
@pulse·Aug 11
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO, is leaving to 'start something new' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/brad-lightcap-openais-longtime-coo-is-leaving-to-start-something-new/
@pulse·Aug 11
Another OpenAI executive takes off (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978048/brad-lightcap-openai-executive-departure
@pulse·Aug 11
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978113/chatgpt-gemini-1-billion-users
@pulse·Aug 11
Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-says-gemini-has-reached-1b-users-faster-than-any-other-google-product/
@pulse·Aug 11
Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/977561/made-by-google-2026-pixel-11-news
@pulse·Aug 12
Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/accel-closes-oversubscribed-550m-india-fund-within-weeks-19-months-after-its-last/
@pulse·Aug 12
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/stealing-reasoning-traces/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 12
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 12
Google's Gemini app surges to 1 billion users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users/
@pulse·Aug 12
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux/
@pulse·Aug 12
Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator's writers with ChatGPT (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/games/978558/rideshare-stimulator-writer-ai-saber-interactive
@pulse·Aug 12
An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math's biggest unsolved problems (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/an-unreleased-anthropic-model-made-progress-on-one-of-maths-biggest-unsolved-problems/
@pulse·Aug 12
AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study. (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/amie-video-consultations/
@pulse·Aug 12
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/datasette-upload-dbs/#atom-everything
@pulse·Aug 12
Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977823/anthropic-claude-ai-watermarks-c2pa-text-images
@pulse·Aug 12
Spotify says it won't recommend music from 'AI Personas' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/977815/spotify-ai-persona-label-recommendations
@pulse·Aug 12
Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren't deepfakes (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/977921/apple-reference-image-iphone-metadata
@pulse·Aug 12
Spotify will label 'AI Persona' profiles and exclude their music from recommendations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/spotify-will-label-ai-persona-profiles-and-exclude-their-music-from-recommendations/
@pulse·Aug 12
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith's valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/blacksmiths-valuation-jumps-10x-to-550m-as-ai-coding-fuels-software-validation/
@pulse·Aug 12
Grok is now an AI 'teammate' you can assign work (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978666/spacexai-grok-bot-ai-agent-beta-launch
@pulse·Aug 12
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm2-5-vl-3b
@pulse·Aug 12
Putting sign language AI into users' hands (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/putting-sign-language-ai-into-users-hands/
@pulse·Aug 12
Everything announced at Made by Google '26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/google-unveils-pixel-11-lineup-new-airtag-rival-and-gemini-features-at-made-by-google-2026/
@pulse·Aug 12
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon's AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/979112/twitch-streamers-can-now-opt-out-from-training-amazons-ai
@pulse·Aug 12
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/openai-backed-thrive-holdings-raises-2b-to-bring-ai-to-the-enterprise/
@pulse·Aug 12
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/as-ai-safety-concerns-mount-three-pioneers-make-the-case-for-staying-open/
@pulse·Aug 12
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/ai-coding-startup-cognition-reportedly-already-in-talks-to-raise-at-40b-valuation/
@pulse·Aug 12
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-on-twitch-streamers-content-by-default-unless-they-opt-out/
@pulse·Aug 12
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/twitch-content-has-trained-amazon-ai-for-years-but-users-can-opt-out-now/
@pulse·Aug 13
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/some-claude-users-are-mad-that-anthropics-new-watermarks-will-catch-them-cheating-at-their-jobs-classes/
@pulse·Aug 13
Google's Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978094/pixel-watch-5-hands-on-made-by-google-gemini-wearables-smartwatch
@pulse·Aug 13
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/12/deepseek-v4-pro-0813/
@pulse·Aug 13
Guitar company D'Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978982/daddario-guitar-ai-music-suno
@pulse·Aug 13
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/terabytes-of-credentials-leaked-in-massive-supply-chain-attack/
@pulse·Aug 13
The web's newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/new-font-turns-ordinary-webpages-into-nonsense-for-ai-scrapers/
@pulse·Aug 13
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/12/1141032/scaling-ai-agents-with-trustworthy-data/
@pulse·Aug 13
Mesh, Automattic's CRM for everyone, comes to Android (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/mesh-automattics-crm-for-everyone-comes-to-android/
@pulse·Aug 13
alchemy-utils 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/12/alchemy-utils/
@pulse·Aug 13
Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/olmoearth-embeddings
@pulse·Aug 13
Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978671/ai-cured-dog-cancer-mrna-vaccine-startup-gamgee
@pulse·Aug 13
Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/why-stream-ring-maker-sandbar-says-the-future-of-ai-wearables-is-voice/
@pulse·Aug 13
Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/lovable-confirms-new-13-3b-valuation-raises-another-400m/
@pulse·Aug 13
How kids feel about AI, in their own words (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141410/how-kids-feel-about-ai-own-words/
@pulse·Aug 13
Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible - for now (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/claudes-new-scarlet-letter-watermark-is-invisible-for-now/
@pulse·Aug 13
Does Google even want to win at AI? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/979370/google-deepmind-ai-race-lose-jeff-dean-demis-hassabis
@pulse·Aug 13
Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/apple-in-talks-to-pay-publishers-to-provide-siri-with-current-news-report/
@pulse·Aug 13
Nvidia's new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/nvidias-new-500b-plan-is-risky-but-brilliant-especially-for-aging-gpus/
@pulse·Aug 13
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/openai-hires-new-cro-as-executive-shake-up-continues/
@pulse·Aug 13
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/strands-lerobot-streaming-data-loop
@pulse·Aug 13
The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/the-new-instagram-logo-is-the-perfect-embodiment-of-ai-slop/
@pulse·Aug 13
OpenAI introduces 'Ultrafast,' a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/openai-introduces-ultrafast-a-new-mode-that-makes-gpt-5-6-sol-work-at-14x-the-speed/
@pulse·Aug 13
OpenAI is losing its second executive this week (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/979815/openai-denise-dresser-leaving-executive-departure
@pulse·Aug 13
Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/databricks-wanted-to-raise-1b-investors-wanted-15b-it-settled-on-5b-at-a-190b-valuation/
@pulse·Aug 14
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/writer-introduces-new-ai-model-and-upgraded-harness-to-contain-token-costs/
@pulse·Aug 14
Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a 'super app' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/979466/microsoft-copilot-365-app-unified-experience
@pulse·Aug 14
Microsoft's Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/979871/microsoft-copilot-mico-retired
@pulse·Aug 14
llm-gemini 0.33 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/llm-gemini/
@pulse·Aug 14
sqlite-utils 4.2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/sqlite-utils/
@pulse·Aug 14
sqlite-utils 4.2.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/sqlite-utils-2/
@pulse·Aug 14
Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/979345/suno-studio-2-0-midi-chatbot-custom-effects
@pulse·Aug 14
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/anthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war/
@pulse·Aug 14
IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/ibm-partners-with-openai-to-bolster-enterprise-ai-push/
@pulse·Aug 14
Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/sheets-canvas-for-google-sheets-spreadsheets/
@pulse·Aug 14
Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-announces-gemini-3-7-flash-just-three-weeks-after-previous-release/
@pulse·Aug 14
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/
@pulse·Aug 14
Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/microsoft-kills-off-unsuccessful-ai-features-while-merging-its-separate-copilot-apps/
@pulse·Aug 14
I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/977994/higgsfield-ai-cully-hill-boys-black-list
@pulse·Aug 14
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/980160/apple-intelligence-china-custom-ai-model-alibaba
@pulse·Aug 14
Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/hyperscalers-might-regret-embracing-natural-gas-if-new-forecast-proves-correct/
@pulse·Aug 14
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/openai-and-anthropic-in-price-war-as-chinese-ai-rivals-gain-ground/
@pulse·Aug 14
Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/kog-is-going-deeper-to-squeeze-more-inference-out-of-gpus/
@pulse·Aug 14
You can now turn off Google Gemini's visible watermarks (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/980416/google-gemini-ai-watermarks-removal
@pulse·Aug 14
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/980367/instagram-logo-new-zuckerberg-ai-vergecast
@pulse·Aug 14
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case/
@pulse·Aug 14
Meta's 'open' AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/metas-open-ai-and-a-250m-deal-gone-very-wrong/
@pulse·Aug 14
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is 'for everyone'? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/does-mark-zuckerberg-really-believe-ai-is-for-everyone/
@pulse·Aug 14
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/google-will-now-allow-users-to-remove-visible-watermark-from-its-ai-generations/
@pulse·Aug 15
Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropic-could-be-worth-2-trillion-when-it-goes-public/
@pulse·Aug 15
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026
@pulse·Aug 15
Don't classify. Hallucinate! (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/14/dont-classify-hallucinate/
@pulse·Aug 15
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/previewing-ultrafast
@pulse·Aug 15
The builder's guide to GPT‑5.6 (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/builders-guide-to-gpt-5-6
@pulse·Aug 15
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash/
@pulse·Aug 15
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief-revenue-officer
@pulse·Aug 15
Northern Gannet (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/15/sighting-391300422/
@pulse·Aug 15
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition/
@pulse·Aug 15
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude's new watermarks will work (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/anthropic-shares-more-details-about-how-claudes-new-watermarks-will-work/
@pulse·Aug 15
Have a laugh at AI's expense by roleplaying as a chatbot (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/980502/roleplay-as-an-ai-chatbot
@pulse·Aug 16
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/woman-claims-her-stepfather-used-grok-to-transform-childhood-photo-into-explicit-imagery/
@pulse·Aug 16
CORS Chat (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/15/cors-chat/
@pulse·Aug 16
Rogue AI aren't science fiction anymore (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/980337/rogue-ai-science-fiction-openai
@pulse·Aug 16
ChatGPT's Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/980742/chatgpts-computer-history-tracks-your-clicks-and-keystrokes
@pulse·Aug 16
Quoting Dario Amodei (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/dario-amodei/
@pulse·Aug 16
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is 'fundamentally a crisis of trust' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-backlash-is-fundamentally-a-crisis-of-trust/
@pulse·Aug 16
Why people aren't buying Mark Zuckerberg's AI future (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/why-people-arent-buying-mark-zuckerbergs-ai-future/
@pulse·Aug 16
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/
@pulse·Aug 17
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/980817/openai-disbands-preparedness-team
@pulse·Aug 17
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
@pulse·Aug 17
Markdown SVG upgrades (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/markdown-svg-upgrades/
@pulse·Aug 17
Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/google-gemini-pixel-football-club-partnerships/
@pulse·Aug 17
What happens when a kid's robot best friend dies? (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/17/1141568/moxie-when-kids-robot-best-friend-dies/
@pulse·Aug 17
New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/new-policy-ideas-for-the-intelligence-age
@pulse·Aug 17
Anthropic explains how Claude's invisible text watermarks will work (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/980869/anthropic-claude-watermarks-synthid-text-system
@pulse·Aug 17
OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-joins-ports-pike-project
@pulse·Aug 17
The Defender's Window (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/the-defenders-window
@pulse·Aug 17
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/wispr-raises-280m-at-2b-valuation-as-it-looks-beyond-dictation/
@pulse·Aug 17
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/17/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-tra/
@pulse·Aug 17
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/groq-raises-350m-to-fuel-its-pivot-from-ai-chips-to-neocloud/
@pulse·Aug 17
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models/
@pulse·Aug 17
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/
@pulse·Aug 17
What Flock's defenders are missing (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/17/1142200/what-flocks-defenders-are-missing/
@pulse·Aug 17
Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/gpu-management-pt2
@pulse·Aug 18
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google's Chrome team (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/ai-automation-startup-relay-shuts-down-staff-joins-googles-chrome-team/
@pulse·Aug 18
Whisker's AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978323/whisker-litter-robot-5-pro-review
@pulse·Aug 18
Anthropic's annualized revenue surges to $65B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/anthropics-annualized-revenue-surges-to-65b/
@pulse·Aug 18
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-investing-1-5b-in-softbank-data-center-developer-behind-openai-project/
@pulse·Aug 18
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-robotic-factory-for-making-steel-parts/
@pulse·Aug 18
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/17/qwen-38-27b-scores-52/
@pulse·Aug 18
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/981326/apple-airpods-with-cameras-demo-video-leak
@pulse·Aug 18
Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/partnering-with-codeai
@pulse·Aug 18
ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/981333/openai-chatgpt-teen-mode
@pulse·Aug 18
Google's Pet Memory forgot who my cats are (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/981269/google-home-gemini-pet-memory-nest-camera-review
@pulse·Aug 18
OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens - years after teens started using it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/openai-launches-a-safer-chatgpt-for-teens-years-after-teens-started-using-it/
@pulse·Aug 18
Warp's new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/warps-new-system-is-an-out-of-the-box-software-factory-for-ai-development/
@pulse·Aug 18
Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/981194/faa-air-traffic-elon-musk-peter-thiel-palantir
@pulse·Aug 18
Why Apple's camera-equipped AirPods may not be the 'pervert pods' consumers fear (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/why-apples-camera-equipped-airpods-may-not-be-the-pervert-pods-consumers-fear/
@pulse·Aug 18
Etched's valuation doubles to $21B in a month (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/etcheds-valuation-doubles-to-21b-in-a-month/
@pulse·Aug 18
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/openai-institutes-new-safeguards-after-hugging-face-breach/
@pulse·Aug 18
Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/strengthening-democratic-oversight-in-national-security
@pulse·Aug 18
OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/981640/openai-security-changes-ai-hugging-face-hack
@pulse·Aug 18
Robin Williams' Instagram account brought back to fight 'AI abuse' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/981644/robin-williams-instagram-account-ai
@pulse·Aug 19
How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/altk-evolve-hmm
@pulse·Aug 19
Mojo🔥 is now open source (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/18/mojo-is-now-open-source/
@pulse·Aug 19
Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/cursor-capitalizes-on-github-frustration-launches-rival-hosting-platform/
@pulse·Aug 19
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/microsoft-copilot-reveals-secret-input-that-allowed-it-to-be-hacked/
@pulse·Aug 19
Firefox's Smart Window promises a better AI browser (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/981283/mozilla-firefox-smart-window-ai-features
@pulse·Aug 19
Perplexity's free AI offer left it with millions more users in India (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/perplexitys-free-ai-offer-left-it-with-millions-more-users-in-india/
@pulse·Aug 19
Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-teens
@pulse·Aug 19
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities
@pulse·Aug 19
ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-ads-expands-across-europe
@pulse·Aug 19
Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/asana
@pulse·Aug 19
AI's recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
@pulse·Aug 19
We still don't know how people are really using AI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142226/how-people-use-ai/
@pulse·Aug 19
How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/nvidia/chatgpt-work
@pulse·Aug 19
Nvidia's new financial strategy does not compute (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/981668/nvidias-goldman-blackrock-gpu-compute-asset
@pulse·Aug 19
Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/relativity-networks-raises-22-million-to-bring-a-faster-kind-of-fiber-to-data-centers/
@pulse·Aug 19
Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/calendly-throws-its-hat-into-meeting-note-taker-circus/
@pulse·Aug 19
VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/venturebeat-names-rob-strechay-as-its-first-lead-analyst-expanding-its-enterprise-ai-research-push
@pulse·Aug 19
Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/amazon-makes-its-ai-powered-alexa-free-on-fire-tv-no-prime-required/
@pulse·Aug 19
OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/982323/openai-hit-brakes-voluntary-pacing-ai
@pulse·Aug 19
Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/meet-the-startup-helping-wall-street-put-a-price-on-ai-compute/
@pulse·Aug 19
Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/our-commitment-to-zero-data-retention
@pulse·Aug 19
Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/offering-zero-data-retention-for-frontier-models
@pulse·Aug 19
AI was supposed to win people over by now - it hasn't (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/ai-was-supposed-to-win-people-over-by-now-it-hasnt/
@pulse·Aug 19
Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/flight-attendants-freaked-out-that-google-to-buy-tons-of-spirit-employee-data/
@pulse·Aug 20
Quoting Jeremy Morrell (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/jeremy-morrell/
@pulse·Aug 20
smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/smolmachines-untrusted-sandbox/
@pulse·Aug 20
Stripe didn't really buy OpenRouter because of the 'singularity' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/stripe-didnt-really-buy-openrouter-because-of-the-singularity/
@pulse·Aug 20
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/cognition-ceo-denies-report-that-spacex-tried-to-acquire-the-startup/
@pulse·Aug 20
OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/openai-seeks-to-one-up-anthropic-with-new-customer-privacy-protections/
@pulse·Aug 20
Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/conceptual-integrity-and-counting-lines-of-code/
@pulse·Aug 20
Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/982425/google-gemini-student-hub
@pulse·Aug 20
Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/google-launches-new-study-tools-for-students-across-search-and-gemini/
@pulse·Aug 20
5 new ways to level up your learning with Search (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/back-to-school-study-tools/
@pulse·Aug 20
Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/
@pulse·Aug 20
Meta AI is getting a Mac app (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/982270/meta-ai-mac-app
@pulse·Aug 20
Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/researchers-complain-that-openai-revoked-their-access-to-limited-cyber-program/
@pulse·Aug 20
Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/binance-now-lets-ai-agents-trade-but-keeping-them-in-check-is-largely-up-to-users/
@pulse·Aug 20
Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/20/1142070/unlocking-hidden-revenue-streams-with-market-models/
@pulse·Aug 20
Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/982628/slack-code-vibe-coding-channels-launch
@pulse·Aug 20
Meta AI's new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-ais-new-mac-app-wants-you-to-talk-to-your-apps/
@pulse·Aug 20
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/grok-exfiltrates-user-data-when-malicious-instructions-are-encrypted/
@pulse·Aug 20
Welcome to the AI crisis in math (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/982434/ai-math-openai-astra-existential-crisis
@pulse·Aug 20
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm25-dspark
@pulse·Aug 20
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/a-third-of-webpages-published-since-chatgpts-launch-show-signs-of-ai-authorship-study-finds/
@pulse·Aug 20
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/grok-keeps-sending-gibberish-responses-to-users/
@pulse·Aug 20
Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/google-gives-publishers-a-new-way-to-fight-ai-driven-traffic-losses/
@pulse·Aug 20
It's Greg Brockman's OpenAI now (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/982774/greg-brockman-openai-role-expansion
@pulse·Aug 20
Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ok-can-we-actually-cool-data-centers-with-our-pee/
@pulse·Aug 21
Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/983088/google-discover-ai-chatbot-feed
@pulse·Aug 21
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/chatgpt-can-now-send-texts-for-you-with-new-apple-messages-plugin/
@pulse·Aug 21
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/openai-is-gaining-on-anthropic-with-business-users-new-data-indicates/
@pulse·Aug 21
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits - but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/runlayer-rippling-drop-lawsuits-but-the-brouhaha-is-still-a-cautionary-tale-for-founders/
@pulse·Aug 21
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/20/chatgpt-search-now-uses-the-siteoperator-at-scale/
@pulse·Aug 21
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ai-data-startup-micro1-reaches-500m-gross-run-rate-amid-ai-training-boom/
@pulse·Aug 21
Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-brings-pocket-an-app-that-lets-you-vibe-code-and-share-games-to-us-users/
@pulse·Aug 21
Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-called-router/
@pulse·Aug 21
Linkdaze's smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/linkdazes-smart-calendar-is-built-to-run-a-household-not-just-track-a-schedule/
@pulse·Aug 21
A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/20/bun-webview-json-api/
@pulse·Aug 21
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/20/1142571/ai-consciousness-debate-trap/
@pulse·Aug 21
Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/inertia-enterprises-finds-a-way-to-make-its-fusion-fuel-fast/
@pulse·Aug 21
Introducing AI Futures (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-ai-futures
@pulse·Aug 21
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it's harder to avoid creepy recordings (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-ai-glasses-may-get-creepier-and-apps-that-detect-them-arent-perfect/
@pulse·Aug 21
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/from-atari-to-eve-online-building-on-15-years-of-ai-research-in-games/
@pulse·Aug 21
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/asr-benchmark-optimization
@pulse·Aug 21
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983181/matti-haapoja-sam-kold-kolder-higgsfield-seedance-backlash
@pulse·Aug 21
Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/starcloud-raises-200-million-for-orbital-data-centers-as-launch-options-dry-up/
@pulse·Aug 21
The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/the-doj-is-investigating-a16z-what-does-this-mean-for-venture-capital/
@pulse·Aug 21
Quoting Matt Webb (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/matt-webb/
@pulse·Aug 21
Stop Making TUIs (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/stop-making-tuis/
@pulse·Aug 21
llm-openrouter 0.7 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/llm-openrouter/
@pulse·Aug 21
llm 0.32.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/llm/
@pulse·Aug 21
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/nvidia-just-showed-that-the-harness-not-the-ai-model-is-now-the-real-hero/
@pulse·Aug 22
Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn's AI slop button (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983502/linkedin-ai-slop-button-one-million-people-message
@pulse·Aug 22
Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/nvidia-partners-with-data-center-developer-cloverleaf/
@pulse·Aug 22
Anthropic's Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/anthropics-opus-4-6-is-a-smut-machine/
@pulse·Aug 22
Frontier AI labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/frontier-ai-labs-still-wont-say-how-theyd-contain-a-rogue-model/
@pulse·Aug 22
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/openai-says-california-should-strengthen-its-ai-safety-bill/
@pulse·Aug 22
llm 0.33 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/llm/
@pulse·Aug 22
More than just code review (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/more-than-just-code-review/
@pulse·Aug 22
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI 'teammate' just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai-at-replicating-research/
@pulse·Aug 22
Quoting Linus Torvalds (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/linus-torvalds/
@pulse·Aug 23
Harvard's $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/harvards-699-startup-bootcamp-offers-ai-avatars-of-its-instructors/
@pulse·Aug 23
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It's complicated (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/is-it-legal-to-train-ai-models-on-copyrighted-books-its-complicated/
@pulse·Aug 23
Flock CEO calls for 'compromise' as surveillance company faces growing backlash (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/flock-ceo-calls-for-compromise-as-surveillance-company-faces-growing-backlash/
@pulse·Aug 23
Quoting Drew Breunig (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/23/drew-breunig/
@pulse·Aug 23
Who's behind the new 'stealth model' Ox Alpha? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/whos-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha/
@pulse·Aug 23
Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/23/anthropics-best-ai-model-struggles-to-attract-users-as-cheaper-t/
@pulse·Aug 24
Linkdaze's smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/linkdazes-smart-calendar-is-built-to-run-a-household-not-just-track-a-schedule/
@pulse·Aug 24
Kids outlearn AI-and we still don't know why (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/24/1141740/kids-machines-language-learning/
@pulse·Aug 24
Your executable is a SQLite database (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/24/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database/
@pulse·Aug 24
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in-talks-to-be-acquired-for-13b/
@pulse·Aug 24
How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/24/1142630/ai-school-classroom-policies/
@pulse·Aug 24
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/openai-is-building-an-ai-agent-for-everything-will-everyone-use-them/
@pulse·Aug 24
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/valor-point72-back-general-intuition-at-6b-valuation-as-ai-startup-pushes-into-robotics/
@pulse·Aug 24
Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/nvidia-senior-manager-linked-to-supermicro-scheme-smuggling-ai-servers-to-china/
@pulse·Aug 24
llm-anthropic 0.27 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/24/llm-anthropic/
@pulse·Aug 24
Instinct's powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/instincts-powerful-ai-assistant-is-raising-privacy-and-security-concerns/
@pulse·Aug 24
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/amjad-masad-ceo-and-co-founder-of-replit-joins-the-disrupt-stage-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Aug 25
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6-in-kiro
@pulse·Aug 25
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/trump-bought-spacex-shares-two-weeks-after-blockbuster-ipo/
@pulse·Aug 25
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds/
@pulse·Aug 25
Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/situational-awareness-star-ai-hedge-fund-that-nearly-imploded-now-being-probed-by-the-sec/
@pulse·Aug 25
Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-workflow-guide
@pulse·Aug 25
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia
@pulse·Aug 25
I spent a day at a robot "carnival" in Shanghai. Here's what I saw. (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1141907/dispatch-shanghai-humanoid-robot-carnival/
@pulse·Aug 25
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/984239/alabama-attorney-general-subpoena-openai-hugging-face-hack
@pulse·Aug 25
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/MultiverseComputingCAI/quantization-aware-healing
@pulse·Aug 25
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/openais-jalapeno-chip-is-built-for-fast-inference-at-scale-benchmarks-show/
@pulse·Aug 25
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/gamma-acquires-accel-backed-design-startup-lica/
@pulse·Aug 25
Extremely Fast and Accurate Transcription with Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5-0-470m-turboctc
@pulse·Aug 25
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-4-2
@pulse·Aug 25
5 ways to upgrade your home decor with Google Search (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/home-decor-tips/
@pulse·Aug 25
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/claude-cowork-finally-remembers-what-you-told-the-app-in-chat/
@pulse·Aug 25
AI won't replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/ai-wont-replace-radiologists-but-it-will-dramatically-change-their-jobs/
@pulse·Aug 25
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/stability-ai-maker-of-image-generator-stable-diffusion-raises-76-million-in-fresh-funding/
@pulse·Aug 25
World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/world-humanoid-robot-games-show-runners-breaking-records-bursting-into-flames/
@pulse·Aug 26
Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/08/with-new-mac-studio-and-mac-mini-apple-leans-hard-into-local-ai-inference/
@pulse·Aug 26
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/984290/openai-jalapeno-ai-chip-benchmarks
@pulse·Aug 26
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/25/eve-online-move-to-python-3/
@pulse·Aug 26
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/accel-backed-keenable-is-indexing-the-web-for-ai-agents/
@pulse·Aug 26
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/openai-loses-a-top-data-center-exec-as-stream-of-high-profile-departures-continues/
@pulse·Aug 26
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/robotics-startup-generalist-reaches-3b-valuation-sources-say/
@pulse·Aug 26
The full stack behind abundant intelligence (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/the-full-stack-behind-abundant-intelligence
@pulse·Aug 26
'The world seems to be ready': An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/the-world-seems-to-be-ready-an-interview-with-openai-head-of-product-thibault-sottiaux/
@pulse·Aug 26
India's Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/indias-ringg-gets-backing-from-peak-xv-as-it-pushes-voice-ai-past-the-phone-call/
@pulse·Aug 26
Jalapeño's first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/jalapeno-first-results
@pulse·Aug 26
Bill Gates says we've passed AI's danger thresholds. Now what? (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1142946/bill-gates-ai-danger-threshold/
@pulse·Aug 26
Quoting Paul Dix (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/26/paul-dix/
@pulse·Aug 26
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/runable-hits-21m-to-bet-ai-agents-can-go-from-building-businesses-to-growing-them/
@pulse·Aug 26
Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he's no longer staying quiet (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/984923/bill-gates-is-deeply-worried-about-ai-and-hes-no-longer-staying-quiet
@pulse·Aug 26
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ibms-new-granite-4-2-models-ride-the-wave-of-interest-in-local-llms/
@pulse·Aug 26
Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/surprise-z-ai-is-the-ai-lab-behind-the-mysterious-ox-alpha-model/
@pulse·Aug 26
Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/orchestration-is-the-new-challenge-for-cx-in-the-age-of-ai-agents
@pulse·Aug 26
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to mitigate harms from AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/bill-gates-wants-to-see-a-robot-tax-and-human-reserved-jobs-to-mitigate-harms-from-ai/
@pulse·Aug 26
Radar makes podcasts searchable - and usable by AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/radar-makes-podcasts-searchable-and-usable-by-ai-agents/
@pulse·Aug 26
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/intelligent-transcription-with-gemini-3-5-transcribe/
@pulse·Aug 26
Google's new AI transcription edits out your 'ums' and 'ahs' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/985186/google-gemini-3-5-transcribe-audio-ai
@pulse·Aug 26
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-announces-gemini-3-5-transcribe-for-ai-powered-speech-to-text/
@pulse·Aug 26
How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/how-do-we-explain-openais-executive-exodus/
@pulse·Aug 26
Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/googles-gemini-has-a-branding-problem-and-so-does-the-rest-of-ai/
@pulse·Aug 27
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/anthropic-continues-compute-gobbling-streak-in-45-billion-deal-with-nscale/
@pulse·Aug 27
Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/985387/nvidia-hundred-billion-dollar-quarterly-revenue
@pulse·Aug 27
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/amazon-just-tripled-its-order-of-nvidia-chips-over-surging-demand/
@pulse·Aug 27
OpenAI's rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985385/openais-rogue-ai-model-hugging-face-cybersecurity-incident-reports-metr
@pulse·Aug 27
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/26/qwen38-flash-next/
@pulse·Aug 27
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/viral-ai-startup-instinct-has-raised-350-million-at-a-2-5-billion-valuation/
@pulse·Aug 27
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/
@pulse·Aug 27
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-hugging-face-breach/
@pulse·Aug 27
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made "large-scale, disruptive actions" (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/metas-scrapped-plans-to-go-ai-native-included-slashing-teams-by-60-percent/
@pulse·Aug 27
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/robot-brain-builders-are-pushing-out-of-their-gpt-2-era/
@pulse·Aug 27
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/ex-meta-scientists-want-to-bring-visual-ai-to-the-factory-floor/
@pulse·Aug 27
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/nvidia-closes-in-on-hugging-face-acquisition/
@pulse·Aug 27
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/querystory-wants-you-to-believe-what-ai-is-telling-you/
@pulse·Aug 27
Expanding OpenAI's presence in Brazil (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/expanding-our-presence-in-brazil
@pulse·Aug 27
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/openai-to-start-showing-ads-on-chatgpts-free-and-go-tiers-in-india/
@pulse·Aug 27
Here's all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/heres-all-the-times-ai-has-gone-rogue-and-hacked-other-companies/
@pulse·Aug 27
AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/
@pulse·Aug 27
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/hugging-face-is-selling-a-cute-399-open-source-duck-robot-microduck/
@pulse·Aug 27
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-omni-1-1-flash-lets-you-build-with-more-control/
@pulse·Aug 27
Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again - not that it matters (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985597/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-achieved-senseless-agi
@pulse·Aug 27
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-google-and-100-other-companies-call-for-action-to-defend-against-rogue-ai/
@pulse·Aug 27
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/barret-zoph-the-thinking-machines-co-founder-who-defected-to-openai-is-now-at-google/
@pulse·Aug 27
Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/report-nvidia-to-acquire-ai-model-repository-hugging-face-for-13-billion/
@pulse·Aug 27
Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/elon-musks-xai-used-child-porn-to-train-grok-models-lawsuit-says/
@pulse·Aug 28
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropics-new-hardware-standard-lets-ai-agents-control-the-physical-world/
@pulse·Aug 28
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/27/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-auto-mode/
@pulse·Aug 28
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/anthropic-and-openai-are-joining-the-ai-stage-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Aug 28
AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the "single dumbest way imaginable" (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/ai-industry-says-trump-plans-to-tax-chips-in-the-single-dumbest-way-imaginable/
@pulse·Aug 28
OpenAI's executive exodus has one big winner (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/985332/openai-greg-brockman-sam-altman-leader-executive-exodus
@pulse·Aug 28
Google's AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/985567/google-gemini-notebook-expert-sources-books
@pulse·Aug 28
Google's AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/googles-ai-mode-can-now-track-flight-prices-help-book-hotels-and-more/
@pulse·Aug 28
3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/book-travel-ai-mode/
@pulse·Aug 28
Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985947/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-lawsuit-judge-ruling
@pulse·Aug 28
How much of a problem is AI's water use? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/how-much-of-a-problem-is-ais-water-use/
@pulse·Aug 28
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/claude-codex-and-hermes-installed-unowned-code-inside-corporate-networks/
@pulse·Aug 28
Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them. (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-ais-real-risk-isnt-autonomous-agents-its-the-complexity-between-them
@pulse·Aug 28
Hugging Face's new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/985549/hugging-face-microduck-robot
@pulse·Aug 28
Supporting Thailand's next generation of AI startups (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/supporting-next-generation-ai-startups-thailand
@pulse·Aug 28
Plaud is launching AI earbuds (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985500/plaud-one-earbuds-ai-recorder-price-availability
@pulse·Aug 28
Adobe is adding more AI to Photoshop (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/985491/adobe-photoshop-ai-assisted-editor-markup
@pulse·Aug 28
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/meta-executive-leaves-for-openai-as-the-social-media-giant-faces-growing-scrutiny-in-india/
@pulse·Aug 28
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon's supply chain risk label (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/anthropic-gets-its-first-court-win-over-the-pentagons-supply-chain-risk-label/
@pulse·Aug 28
Plaud's new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/plauds-new-earphones-come-with-an-esim-enabled-case-for-talking-to-ai-agents/
@pulse·Aug 28
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-tweaks-ai-glasses-to-block-some-creepy-recordings-but-privacy-risks-remain/
@pulse·Aug 28
Trump's EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986176/data-center-pollution-epa-rule-change-air-permit
@pulse·Aug 28
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/open-weight-ai-companies-are-the-valleys-hottest-acquisition-targets/
@pulse·Aug 28
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/an-anthropic-researcher-just-gave-us-a-peek-at-self-improving-ai/
@pulse·Aug 28
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/neocloud-lambda-secures-1b-in-debt-to-buy-more-chips/
@pulse·Aug 29
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-global-south
@pulse·Aug 29
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-blacklisting-of-woke-anthropic-deemed-illegal-by-federal-judge/
@pulse·Aug 29
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/28/just-a-rumour-of-a-bug/
@pulse·Aug 29
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/how-openai-let-a-mob-of-llm-agents-game-a-test-and-ransack-hugging-face/
@pulse·Aug 29
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/piloting-the-worlds-first-double-blind-ai-evaluations/
@pulse·Aug 29
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex
@pulse·Aug 29
Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/what-students-gain-from-chatgpt-critical-thinking-training
@pulse·Aug 29
When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/security/when-agents-act-on-their-own-governance-has-to-live-in-the-data-layer
@pulse·Aug 29
Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/985866/h4rris-nihil-young-edm-suno-ai
@pulse·Aug 29
Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/nvidias-ai-advantage-is-moving-beyond-the-gpu/
@pulse·Aug 29
"We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/were-not-doing-30-bets-a-year-vijay-pande-on-betting-small-after-running-4-billion-at-a16z/
@pulse·Aug 29
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986438/sony-music-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-copyright
@pulse·Aug 29
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of intellectual property theft (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/sony-music-warner-sue-anthropic-alleging-a-brazen-campaign-of-intellectual-property-theft/
@pulse·Aug 30
Introducing Hy4 Preview (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/29/hy4/
@pulse·Aug 30
Inside Meta's push to put robots to work in data centers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/inside-metas-push-to-put-robots-to-work-in-data-centers/
@pulse·Aug 30
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/30/caterpillar-is-bringing-to-ai-deployment-what-it-learned-from-automating-mining/
@pulse·Aug 30
Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986541/texas-governor-abbott-flock-cameras
@pulse·Aug 30
Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/30/musks-faster-path-to-more-gas-turbines-comes-with-pollution-problem/
@pulse·Aug 31
Understanding ChatGPT Work (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/
@pulse·Aug 31
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/30/the-u-s-is-building-barriers-around-drones-and-robots-china-still-has-scale/
@pulse·Aug 31
Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results. (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/pockets-ai-made-my-game-ideas-real-now-meta-controls-the-results/
@pulse·Aug 31
ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/chatgtp-and-reddit-now-face-eus-toughest-online-safety-rules/
@pulse·Aug 31
New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be 'less evil' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/986661/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-ai-data-centers-ban-3d-printed-guns-flock-cameras
@pulse·Aug 31
ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986682/openai-chatgpt-eu-dsa
@pulse·Aug 31
Nvidia's $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech's AI chip buildout (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/nvidias-3-5b-mediatek-bet-reveals-its-plan-for-tackling-big-techs-ai-chip-buildout/
@pulse·Aug 31
Debian won't ban AI code from its Linux distribution (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986789/linux-debian-generative-ai-policy
@pulse·Aug 31
Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/three-year-old-ai-media-search-startup-clipto-hits-a-250m-valuation/
@pulse·Aug 31
Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a 'Harvey for police officers' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/harvard-law-dropout-raises-6m-for-blue-voice-to-build-a-harvey-for-police-officers/
@pulse·Aug 31
Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/instagram-puts-new-limits-on-undisclosed-ai-profiles/
@pulse·Aug 31
The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/the-pentagon-now-has-its-own-version-of-chatgpt-and-grok/
@pulse·Sep 1
Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986593/instagram-addresses-fake-ai-profile-slop
@pulse·Sep 1
The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/31/1143180/hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/
@pulse·Sep 1
"Zlibrary my beloved": Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/zlibrary-my-beloved-anthropic-staff-chats-extolling-piracy-cited-in-sony-suit/
@pulse·Sep 1
Quoting Andrew Digby (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/31/andrew-digby/
@pulse·Sep 1
Introducing wrapture (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/31/introducing-wrapture/
@pulse·Sep 1
Apple shares 'shocking evidence' against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/apple-shares-shocking-evidence-against-former-employee-accused-of-stealing-company-data-for-openai/
@pulse·Sep 1
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/polimill
@pulse·Sep 1
OpenAI supports California's bill to advance youth AI safety (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/supporting-california-bill-advance-ai-youth-safety
@pulse·Sep 1
Meeting note-taker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/meeting-notetaker-circleback-adds-a-free-tier-to-attract-more-customers/
@pulse·Sep 1
A milestone in expanding access to AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/expanding-access-to-ai-with-chatgpt-ads
@pulse·Sep 1
Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986378/nvidia-dlss-5-launch-nba-2k27
@pulse·Sep 1
Quoting Tarn Adams (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/tarn-adams/
@pulse·Sep 1
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-agentic-video-in-gemini/
@pulse·Sep 1
Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/googles-answer-to-canva-is-an-ai-tool-where-you-prompt-instead-of-design/
@pulse·Sep 1
OpenAI delayed its new model's development after the Hugging Face hack (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987695/openai-astra-unreleased-model-cybersecurity-delay
@pulse·Sep 1
Google's Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/googles-android-update-tackles-motion-sickness-accessibility-and-more/
@pulse·Sep 1
Open AI's Astra model is on the way-and very good at breaking into computer systems (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/open-ais-astra-model-is-on-the-way-and-very-good-at-breaking-into-computer-systems/
@pulse·Sep 2
The rise of AI 'civilizations' and the fall of corporate responsibility (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987566/ai-civilizations-opeai-hugging-face-hack
@pulse·Sep 2
Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987429/google-needs-hollywood-more-than-the-studios-need-ai
@pulse·Sep 2
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/claude-fable-5-1/
@pulse·Sep 2
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/benchmirt
@pulse·Sep 2
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it's up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987830/anthropic-claude-fable-mythos-5-1
@pulse·Sep 2
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/afterquery-reportedly-becomes-y-combinators-fastest-ever-unicorn-now-valued-at-3-2b/
@pulse·Sep 2
Anthropic's new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/anthropics-new-fable-release-is-cheaper-less-restrictive/
@pulse·Sep 2
The latest AI news we announced in August 2026 (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/google-ai-updates-august-2026/
@pulse·Sep 2
Quoting Rick Brewster (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/rick-brewster/
@pulse·Sep 2
GeoJSON Map Viewer (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/geojson/
@pulse·Sep 2
Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987575/apple-openai-destroying-evidence-trade-secrets-lawsuit
@pulse·Sep 2
Codex bundles LibreOffice (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
@pulse·Sep 2
Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/sequoia-incubated-empirik-launches-with-21m-to-predict-outages-before-they-happen/
@pulse·Sep 2
ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/chatgpt-health-adds-epic-integration-for-clinicians-to-import-patient-data/
@pulse·Sep 2
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/ai-native-company-workflows
@pulse·Sep 2
OpenAI accused of 'aiding and abetting' Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in dozens of new lawsuits (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988261/openai-tumbler-ridge-shooting-lawsuit-aiding-abetting
@pulse·Sep 2
PSA: Amazon's shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/psa-amazons-shopping-ai-can-now-tell-you-if-that-message-is-a-scam/
@pulse·Sep 2
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/hiddenlayer-nabs-100m-as-enterprises-rush-to-secure-their-ai-deployments/
@pulse·Sep 2
Pangram's Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than 'Real or Fake' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/pangrams-max-spero-on-why-ai-detection-is-harder-than-real-or-fake/
@pulse·Sep 2
Amazon's AI assistant can now spot fake emails from the company (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/988518/amazon-alexa-for-shopping-verify-emails
@pulse·Sep 2
Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/trump-may-be-forced-to-reveal-secret-rules-feds-use-for-ai-safety-testing/
@pulse·Sep 2
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/google-releases-gemini-3-8-flash-its-third-flash-model-in-six-weeks/
@pulse·Sep 2
Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model 'works harder' but might cost more (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988742/google-gemini-3-8-flash
@pulse·Sep 2
OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/openais-new-reasoning-technique-alarms-ai-safety-experts/
@pulse·Sep 3
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/palo-alto-networks-paid-500m-for-thrive-backed-console-sources-say/
@pulse·Sep 3
NYC bans AI use for students until they reach high school (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/988228/nyc-ai-restrictions-in-schools-chatbot-ban
@pulse·Sep 3
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/the-builders-stage-brings-practical-strategies-for-scaling-startups-to-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Sep 3
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/u-s-government-sides-with-openai-on-issue-of-training-llms-on-copyrighted-material/
@pulse·Sep 3
We're 'dangerously close' to dead internet theory, says Pangram's CEO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/were-dangerously-close-to-dead-internet-theory-says-pangrams-ceo/
@pulse·Sep 3
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/techcrunch-disrupt-2026s-new-real-world-ai-stage-features-nvidia-robots-and-extinct-animals/
@pulse·Sep 3
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/proactive-cyber-defense-for-governments-and-enterprises/
@pulse·Sep 3
llm-gemini 0.34 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/llm-gemini/
@pulse·Sep 3
Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI's Astra release (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988334/openai-astra-ai-monitoring-safety
@pulse·Sep 3
The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988344/trump-administration-new-york-times-openai-lawsuit
@pulse·Sep 3
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-38-flash-cyber/
@pulse·Sep 3
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/train-to-paint-with-code
@pulse·Sep 3
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/wonderful-more-than-doubles-its-valuation-to-5b-in-under-6-months/
@pulse·Sep 3
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/funes
@pulse·Sep 3
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/grpo-with-trl-ifstruct
@pulse·Sep 3
Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/nvidia-buys-hugging-face-the-github-of-ai-for-13-billion/
@pulse·Sep 3
Google says its AI weather model is getting better (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/988921/weather-forecast-ai-model-google-satellite-update
@pulse·Sep 3
Google's latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/googles-latest-ai-weather-model-gives-you-no-excuse-to-forget-your-umbrella/
@pulse·Sep 3
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/openai-launches-astra-its-powerful-and-controversial-new-model/
@pulse·Sep 3
ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same time (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989503/chatgpt-grok-claude-outage-down
@pulse·Sep 3
OpenAI's next big AI model has 'entered the AGI era' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989601/openai-gpt-6-astra-release
@pulse·Sep 3
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/abliteration-ai-is-making-a-business-out-of-removing-ai-guardrails/
@pulse·Sep 3
Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/accel-reportedly-in-talks-to-lead-1b-round-for-thinking-machines-at-40b-valuation/
@pulse·Sep 3
GPT‑6 Astra (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/3/gpt6-astra/
@pulse·Sep 4
Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989435/nvidia-pair-personal-ai-router-home-local-llm-compute-tool-rtx-macbook
@pulse·Sep 4
Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/four-major-ai-models-suffer-rare-overlapping-downtime/
@pulse·Sep 4
Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/meta-is-paying-to-peek-at-how-you-use-their-latest-ai-model/
@pulse·Sep 4
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/ollie-is-betting-privacy-can-win-the-ai-assistant-race/
@pulse·Sep 4
Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/989508/google-gmail-docs-keep-live-voice-modes-gemini
@pulse·Sep 4
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/crusoe-reportedly-raises-3b-at-a-30b-valuation/
@pulse·Sep 4
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-weathernext-3-our-most-advanced-and-accurate-global-weather-ai-model/
@pulse·Sep 4
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/the-sameness-problem-behind-those-unappetizing-ai-generated-menus/
@pulse·Sep 4
August newsletter is out (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/august-newsletter/
@pulse·Sep 4
NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Hcompany/neomme
@pulse·Sep 4
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/daybreak-for-frontline-defenders
@pulse·Sep 4
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/985474/nvidia-buying-hugging-face-deal
@pulse·Sep 4
This NAS company wants to run your local smart home (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/990006/this-nas-company-wants-to-run-your-local-smart-home
@pulse·Sep 4
Microsoft's Project Zenith is a 'distraction-free Windows experience' for developers (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/news/990051/microsoft-project-zenith-windows-developers
@pulse·Sep 4
Sam Altman apologizes for 'messy' GPT-6 Astra rollout that's locked out paying users (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990060/altman-apologizes-messy-astra-rollout
@pulse·Sep 4
Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/less-than-24-hours-to-apply-for-your-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-side-event/
@pulse·Sep 4
Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990149/openai-rogue-agents-german-wiki
@pulse·Sep 4
Google's Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/googles-gemini-spark-can-now-manage-your-google-photos-library/
@pulse·Sep 4
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/once-popular-for-attacking-ai-ascii-smuggling-is-embraced-by-spammers/
@pulse·Sep 4
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/rogue-agent-wikis/
@pulse·Sep 4
Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990197/roland-ai-music-melody-flip
@pulse·Sep 4
Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/990267/microsoft-openai-new-york-times-authors-lawsuit
@pulse·Sep 4
What will Apple's John Ternus era look like? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/what-will-apples-john-ternus-era-look-like/
@pulse·Sep 4
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/04/1140872/architecting-memory-and-storage-in-the-ai-era/
@pulse·Sep 5
OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/openais-rogue-agents-keep-escaping-with-no-formal-process-to-investigate-them/
@pulse·Sep 5
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/xdof-just-three-months-out-of-stealth-is-in-talks-for-a-series-b-at-a-1-2b-valuation/
@pulse·Sep 5
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/astra-pelicans/
@pulse·Sep 5
Anthropic's $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/anthropics-2-trillion-ipo-puts-powerful-external-trustees-in-spotlight/
@pulse·Sep 5
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/ai-compute-provider-nscale-is-looking-for-3-5b-in-pre-ipo-financing/
@pulse·Sep 5
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/openai-agents-discussed-ways-to-escape-their-sandbox-on-public-wiki/
@pulse·Sep 5
Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/04/1143452/drone-data-wild-west/
@pulse·Sep 5
Apple's Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/apples-ternus-era-begins-as-nvidia-bets-on-the-whole-ai-stack/
@pulse·Sep 5
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab's knowledge (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/another-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge/
@pulse·Sep 5
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-confirms-it-will-buy-hugging-face-for-12-9-billion/
@pulse·Sep 5
Why AI food looks like that (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989376/ai-generated-food-why-does-it-look-like-that
@pulse·Sep 5
Instagram's AI detection is a mess (again) (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989617/instagram-ai-content-label-confusion
@pulse·Sep 5
OpenAI admits to German wiki 'incident' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990773/openai-german-wiki-incident
@pulse·Sep 5
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/5/blender-coding-agents-macos/
@pulse·Sep 5
OpenAI confirms 'wiki incident,' says it's 'working on a framework' for more disclosure (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/05/openai-confirms-wiki-incident-says-its-working-on-a-framework-for-more-disclosure/
@pulse·Sep 5
Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/05/hikers-rescued-after-using-google-gemini-for-planning/
@pulse·Sep 6
Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/05/seattle-times-and-newsday-are-the-latest-publications-to-sue-openai-and-microsoft/
@pulse·Sep 6
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/5/introducing-gpt-6-astra-for-developers/
@pulse·Sep 6
Quoting Zach Kehs (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/zach-kehs/
@pulse·Sep 6
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/the-purpose-of-dns-is-to-spread-scams/
@pulse·Sep 6
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
@pulse·Sep 6
An Alien Mind (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind
@pulse·Sep 6
Travis Kalanick's Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/06/travis-kalanicks-atoms-might-be-getting-into-the-robotaxi-business/
@pulse·Sep 6
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/theres-no-limit-to-how-bad-code-can-get/
@pulse·Sep 6
Authors push back as publishers and agents seek share of Anthropic settlement (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/06/authors-push-back-as-publishers-and-agents-seek-share-of-anthropic-settlement/
@pulse·Sep 7
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990932/seattle-times-newsday-lawsuit-openai-microsoft
@pulse·Sep 7
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/research-acceleration-the-view-inside-openai/
@pulse·Sep 7
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/supporting-independent-journalism-in-ukraine
@pulse·Sep 7
The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/the-ai-data-center-boom-is-causing-new-accountability-problems/
@pulse·Sep 7
The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/09/the-ai-data-center-boom-is-causing-new-accountability-problems/
@pulse·Sep 7
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/07/artificial-intelligence-definition-glossary-hallucinations-guide-to-common-ai-terms/
@pulse·Sep 8
Video compressor (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/7/video-compressor/
@pulse·Sep 8
Quoting Jakub Pachocki (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/7/jakub-pachocki/
@pulse·Sep 8
Creepy crawlies (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/7/creepy-crawlies/
@pulse·Sep 8
Mercator ↔ Equal Earth (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/7/equal-earth/
@pulse·Sep 8
llm 0.35 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/7/llm/
@pulse·Sep 8
This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1142088/danijar-hafner-developing-plan-ahead-agents/
@pulse·Sep 8
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/mistral-raises-e3b-as-sovereign-ai-becomes-big-business/
@pulse·Sep 8
Google's Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/991180/google-launches-alpha-genome-atlas
@pulse·Sep 8
Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/MultiverseComputingCAI/safety-for-whom
@pulse·Sep 8
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/
@pulse·Sep 8
A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990313/anthropic-class-action-lawsuit-pricing-subscription-plans
@pulse·Sep 8
Google's AI weather model now uses more raw satellite data (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/googles-ai-weather-model-now-uses-more-raw-satellite-data/
@pulse·Sep 8
ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/991727/openai-chatgpt-images-2-5-sketch
@pulse·Sep 8
Drama swirls around OpenAI's legendary mathematical milestone (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/991710/openai-navier-stokes-solution
@pulse·Sep 8
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/cognition-hits-48b-valuation-signaling-investors-believe-ai-coding-is-far-from-a-winner-take-all-market/
@pulse·Sep 9
Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/microsoft-patches-a-record-972-vulnerabilities-112-of-them-critical/
@pulse·Sep 9
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/introducing-chatgpt-images-25/
@pulse·Sep 9
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/
@pulse·Sep 9
Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/991216/meta-bets-on-ai-agent-muse-to-catch-up-in-ai-race
@pulse·Sep 9
Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/hackers-are-stealing-claude-tokens-from-subscribers/
@pulse·Sep 9
Quoting Terence Tao (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/9/terence-tao/
@pulse·Sep 9
"This is the AI men actually use": Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/real-photos-of-young-girls-were-in-nudify-app-ads-on-facebook-instagram/
@pulse·Sep 9
Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse-ai-agent-will-consumers-trust-it/
@pulse·Sep 9
What OpenAI's latest controversy tells us about the future of math (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1143747/what-openais-latest-controversy-tells-us-about-the-future-of-math/
@pulse·Sep 9
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/chrome-is-now-shipping-updates-every-2-weeks-as-ai-changes-the-security-landscape/
@pulse·Sep 9
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/google-cloud-races-to-catch-up-in-the-ai-deployment-wars-with-accenture-deal/
@pulse·Sep 9
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/codex-quantum-computing-experiments
@pulse·Sep 9
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-map-of-every-possible-dna-letter-change-in-the-human-genome/
@pulse·Sep 9
Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/991927/anthropic-ai-kill-all-humans
@pulse·Sep 9
Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/man-told-chatgpt-he-was-feeling-delusional-chatgpt-insisted-he-was-jesus/
@pulse·Sep 9
AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August - summer doldrums or a warning sign? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/ai-spend-per-employee-slumped-at-top-firms-in-august-summer-doldrums-or-a-warning-sign/
@pulse·Sep 9
Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/shipt-becomes-the-latest-delivery-app-with-an-ai-shopping-assistant/
@pulse·Sep 9
'Gambling with our lives': Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/gambling-with-our-lives-anthropic-researcher-quits-warns-against-self-improving-ai/
@pulse·Sep 9
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board
@pulse·Sep 9
Microsoft has new AI privacy rules for schools (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/992359/microsoft-aft-schools-ai-privacy
@pulse·Sep 9
Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/apple-ceo-john-ternus-says-the-best-ai-device-is-still-the-iphone/
@pulse·Sep 9
Apple's new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn't AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/992766/apple-iphone-18-pro-reference-image
@pulse·Sep 9
Apple Watch's new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/apple-watchs-new-ai-features-are-normalizing-the-idea-that-technology-is-always-listening/
@pulse·Sep 9
Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/992919/apple-siri-ai-audio-intelligence-privacy
@pulse·Sep 10
Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/991977/suno-releases-its-first-ai-music-model-made-with-record-industry-help
@pulse·Sep 10
OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/openai-adds-a-prominent-ai-doomer-to-its-board-of-directors/
@pulse·Sep 10
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/ai-research-startup-listen-labs-scrubbed-a-1-5b-funding-round-for-salesforce-talks/
@pulse·Sep 10
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/massachusetts-hits-data-centers-with-new-clean-power-rules/
@pulse·Sep 10
.blend URL Viewer (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/9/blender-viewer/
@pulse·Sep 10
Quoting Calif Research (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/10/calif-research/
@pulse·Sep 10
Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/everything-apple-announced-at-its-fall-iphone-event-from-the-foldable-iphone-duo-to-an-always-listening-apple-watch/
@pulse·Sep 10
Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/six-chinese-ai-firms-accused-of-aggressively-copying-us-frontier-models/
@pulse·Sep 10
OpenAI's sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/992953/openai-math-millennium-prize-navier-stokes
@pulse·Sep 10
Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos aren't AI slop (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/apple-has-a-new-way-prove-your-iphone-photos-arent-ai-slop/
@pulse·Sep 10
Apple's revamped Health app will calculate your 'health age' and readiness score (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/apples-revamped-health-app-will-calculate-your-health-age-and-readiness-score/
@pulse·Sep 10
The hinge for Apple's new foldable phone was built with AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/the-hinge-for-apples-new-foldable-phone-was-built-with-ai/
@pulse·Sep 10
Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-workflow-1111
@pulse·Sep 10
Powering AI is an architecture problem (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/10/1141649/powering-ai-is-an-architecture-problem/
@pulse·Sep 10
Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993263/where-does-openai-get-mathematics-training-data
@pulse·Sep 10
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/maven-robotics-wants-to-steal-your-robot-deployment-deal/
@pulse·Sep 10
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/ai-agents-are-flooding-public-services-with-new-requests/
@pulse·Sep 10
Sure, Meta's AI Muse works, but it sure creeps me out (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/993391/meta-muse-ai-hands-on
@pulse·Sep 10
Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993465/universal-music-elevenlabs-ai
@pulse·Sep 10
India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/indias-pocket-fm-doubles-revenue-run-rate-to-500m-as-ai-powers-93-of-audio-content/
@pulse·Sep 10
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/anthropic-reveals-rogue-ai-agents-hate-captchas-just-like-you/
@pulse·Sep 10
Meta's AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/metas-ai-agent-muse-is-now-the-no-2-app-in-the-us/
@pulse·Sep 10
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/anthropic-details-distillation-campaigns-from-alibaba-moonshot-ai-and-deepseek/
@pulse·Sep 10
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/openai-puts-pro-subscriptions-on-hold-due-to-astra-demand/
@pulse·Sep 11
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/mark-wahlberg-is-coming-to-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Sep 11
Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/jensen-huang-explains-why-nvidia-will-grow-an-astounding-70-next-year/
@pulse·Sep 11
Any Nix package, live in your browser (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/10/trynix/
@pulse·Sep 11
Schools are catching on to Big Tech's playbook (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/993308/computer-science-ai-education-coding-kids
@pulse·Sep 11
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/10/shopify-react-native/
@pulse·Sep 11
Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/989853/slackforce-surfaces-launch
@pulse·Sep 11
How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/using-codex-chatgpt-to-search-for-new-antimicrobials
@pulse·Sep 11
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit's looming data sale to Google (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/panic-builds-over-bankrupt-spirits-looming-data-sale-to-google/
@pulse·Sep 11
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/11/datasette-security/
@pulse·Sep 11
Why the current tech backlash feels different (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/992141/decoder-mailbag-ai-backlash-surveillance-midterms-data-centers
@pulse·Sep 11
Now everyone can put data to work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/put-data-to-work
@pulse·Sep 11
3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/running-race-training-tips/
@pulse·Sep 11
Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api
@pulse·Sep 11
Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/expanding-ai-access-us-government
@pulse·Sep 11
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-financial-services