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Disney's First CTO Led AI Startup It Sued for IP Theft
Disney has named Karandeep Anand as its first-ever chief technology officer — the former CEO of Character.AI, a generative AI startup Disney accused of hosting copyrighted characters in a September 20
Hollywood Unions Push Back on AI Doomerism
SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America East told The Verge that while AI's existential risks deserve attention, the tech CEOs issuing apocalyptic warnings are the same figures pushing AI adoption
Disney Names First CTO, From AI Startup
Disney has hired Karandeep Anand, former CEO of generative AI chatbot start-up Character.AI, as its first-ever chief technology officer.
Anthropic Engineer Quit Over AI Extinction Risk
Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon resigned publicly accusing frontier AI companies of 'gambling with our lives,' and a senior colleague confirmed many inside the company believe their work carries a 10 p
Mind raises $72M Series B at $300M valuation
Data loss prevention startup Mind raised a $72M Series B at a reported $300M valuation, bringing its total funding to $112M just 18 months after launch when it hit a $10M annual revenue run rate.
Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic's Claude to breach OpenAI through its bug-bounty program, exploiting a patched-but-unflagged flaw in Discourse's image processing to take over employee
TechCrunch Disrupt tables close tonight at 11:59 PT
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 closes exhibit table bookings tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT, with tables for the October 13–15 Moscone West conference allotted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Naive AI Hits $1.4B Valuation, Eyes September LLM Launch
Naive AI, a secretive Beijing-based AI model startup founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor, has reached a $1.4 billion+ valuation after raising $400 million across three rounds, with
MIT Tech Review Q&A: AI Killing Everyone Is Bad Sci-Fi
MIT Technology Review's two senior AI reporters told subscribers that AI killing everyone is 'apocalyptic science fiction,' pushing back against the extinction narrative while flagging drones, cyberat
SK Hynix Launches Ventures Arm in Silicon Valley
SK Hynix has launched SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, broadening its investment scope into AI computing, data centers, optical interconnect technology, and adjacent sectors.
Anthropic Opens Bay Area Wet Lab for Biology Work
Anthropic has quietly established a Bay Area wet laboratory for hands-on biology research as the AI startup extends its ambitions into disease treatment work.
The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
An adapted book excerpt argues governments should tax automation to fund welfare programs and redistribute wealth, framing a 'robot tax' as a renegotiation of the social contract, with South Korea's 2
Anthropic Flags Claude Bioweapon Risk; Scientists Push Back
Scientists and biotech executives are pushing back against fears that AI will unleash a bioweapon apocalypse, arguing the real bottlenecks—lab equipment, raw materials, and human know-how—remain out o
Anthropic Details AI Bioweapon Misuse Attempts
Public warnings from AI CEOs about the bioweapon potential of their own technology have intensified, with biosecurity experts debating whether safeguards can keep pace with increasingly accessible AI
One of the Pixel 11’s exclusive features is already showing up on Pixel 10 - Android Authority
Android Authority reports that a feature previously expected to be exclusive to Google's upcoming Pixel 11 has already shown up on the current Pixel 10 smartphone.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
Crusoe, the AI infrastructure company behind the massive Abilene, Texas data center site used by OpenAI, raised $3.9 billion in Series F funding that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion.
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
AI startup PrismML released Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen that fits on a PC while retaining 98% of benchmark performance — a step toward capable reasoning AI running entirely on
FAA Launches $875M AI Air Traffic System
The FAA is launching SMART, an $875 million AI-driven air traffic management platform built by Air Space Intelligence, to help controllers predict traffic conflicts and streamline flight routes amid a
SpaceXAI Eyes Bankrupt Startups' Data to Train Grok
SpaceXAI has explored buying customer and operational data from bankrupt startups to train Grok, while Musk separately told staff the model would also mine SpaceX's own internal records and "inherit y
Snap Specs AR Glasses Pre-Order, Verizon Adds Data Plans
Snap's Specs AR glasses are now available for pre-order, with Verizon rolling out dedicated data plans for the device.
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