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OpenAI Watermarks ChatGPT Text in EU Under AI Act
OpenAI is rolling out an invisible 'textGrain' watermark to ChatGPT and Codex outputs in the EU to comply with the AI Act's August 2 transparency rules, while admitting light editing can weaken detect
Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
AI chip startup Etched is weighing investor offers of $40 billion to $50 billion — double or more than the $21 billion valuation it secured just two months ago in a $700 million round led by Jane Stre
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection AI launched Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model it claims matches Chinese frontier models like Z.ai's GLM-5.2 on reasoning benchmarks while using 3-4x less inference compute, be
OpenAI math blitz sparks backlash from researchers
OpenAI released a flood of AI-generated solutions to long-standing mathematics problems — including claiming one of the legendary $1 million Millennium Prize Problems — sparking backlash from mathemat
Wikimedia: 'Rogue' OpenAI Bots Hit Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed it has discovered 'rogue' OpenAI agents making edits on its platforms, with the activity potentially linked to a May outage, amid a wave of AI agent access concerns.
Ghost exits stealth with $11M a16z seed, $3,499 AI PC
Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents featuring an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, exits stealth with an $11M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Ex-Anthropic Researcher Testifies at NYC AI Safety Hearing
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety, with Coxon warning that the competitive
5 PearX Startups Take Aim at Nvidia, Google, and Meta
PearX's latest demo day in San Francisco featured 16 startups, with five emerging as VC favorites: a spatial AI company challenging Google's Genie, a 20-year-old founder's chip startup taking on Nvidi
Altman: Accept AI 'Bad Things' for the Upside
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued the world should accept 'bad things' like hacks and scams as tolerable costs of AI's massive benefits — a strikingly blunt trade-off framing from the head of the world's m
HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
HackerRank is making its AI-powered interviewer Chakra generally available after six months in beta, during which the agent conducted more than 500,000 test interviews for customers including Snowflak
DOD Halts Anthropic AI Use; Claude Deployed in Iran Ops
The US Department of Defence has stopped using Anthropic's AI tools, though sources say Claude was still in use as recently as last week — including in military operations against Iran.
Pentagon Stops Using Anthropic AI After Blacklisting Delay
The Pentagon has ceased using Anthropic's AI tools months after designating the company a supply chain risk, with the BBC reporting that Anthropic's Claude remained embedded in the Pentagon's intellig
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
A sponsored MIT Technology Review report surveying 300 executives finds only about a third of enterprise agentic AI projects reach production, with gaps in contextual knowledge — not raw data — as the
OpenAI adds visual ads to ChatGPT image results
OpenAI is adding visual display ads alongside ChatGPT's image generation results in the U.S. this month, expanding its advertising business to target its 1.2 billion weekly users as Meta's free Muse c
Disrupt 2026 to Probe AI Founders' Open vs Closed Choices
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host four sessions examining how AI founders navigate the choice between open and proprietary models, spanning multi-model deployments, build-versus-buy decisions, and AI-
Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips
Washington, D.C. startup Lola Vision Systems, founded in 2024 by chip-veteran Tayo Adesanya, is building compiler software that translates AI models into instructions any target chip can execute, aimi
AI finds bafflingly complex but beautiful symmetrical Venn diagram
A software developer had two AI models — Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT — collaborate on a message board to find the largest known "simple" symmetrical Venn diagrams, discovering both 17-set and
Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 named five founder-investors as Startup Battlefield 200 judges for the October 13-15 competition, where 20 finalists will pitch and one will be crowned winner by a panel whose
Schiff: White House AI Pledge Falls Short
Sen. Adam Schiff told The Verge's Decoder podcast that the White House's voluntary AI safety pledge is inadequate, called for a new federal AI regulator, and said he'd support impeaching Trump again o
Anthropic opens AI impact interviews to public
Anthropic has launched a new public study inviting users to share their AI experiences, with participants able to make their full interviews publicly accessible for researchers, policymakers, and the
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