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Anthropic, OpenAI Pledge Third-Party Safety Evaluators
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed embedding third-party AI safety evaluators inside frontier labs with power to publish findings, and OpenAI's Sam Altman committed to the same practice — but researc
The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger
The nonprofit Basel Action Network published a report warning that AI data center e-waste is vastly underestimated — projecting up to 617 million metric tons of retired AI hardware by 2050, far above
Hang Ten Systems Adds $53M Seed Extension Led by Xora
Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka four months ago, expanded its seed funding by $53M in a round led by Xora — just five weeks after closing an initial $32M see
AI environmental concerns build as lawmakers grapple with tech panic
More than half of Americans are now extremely or very concerned about AI's environmental impacts, a figure that climbed more than ten percentage points in a single year according to AP-NORC polling.
Google opens Google Home MCP to Claude, ChatGPT
Google launched early access to its Model Context Protocol server for Google Home, letting third-party assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Antigravity control smart home devices through natura
Delos Data Raises $100M for AI Networking Chips
Delos Data, a startup founded by former Intel engineers that builds networking chips and software to link AI processors inside data centers, raised $100 million from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partn
Anthropic Merges Claude Chat and Cowork, Adds Document Tool
Anthropic is merging its Claude chat and Cowork interfaces into one unified front-end while adding a new feature for creating presentations and documents, with Pro and Max subscribers getting first ac
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork into one interface
Anthropic is consolidating Claude's chat, Cowork, and Artifacts into a single front-end that auto-routes requests, while adding native tools for building and sharing slides and documents across deskto
Claude Launches Docs and Slides to Rival Gemini
Anthropic is rolling out Docs and Slides tools for Claude and merging its chat interfaces into a single 'one Claude' experience, directly challenging Google's natively integrated Gemini productivity s
Research Papers Become Interactive AI Agents
Coverage from Nature, Tech Xplore, and 36Kr converges on a new concept: transforming research papers into interactive AI agents capable of communicating with each other and aiding scientific discovery
Nvidia's Karpas: Robotics Awaits Its ChatGPT Moment
Nvidia's Les Karpas, Inception's Global Head of Physical AI, will take the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (Oct 13-15, San Francisco) to argue that general-purpose robotics lacks the in
OpenAI Tests Sponsored ChatGPT Ads
OpenAI is testing 'Sponsored Agents' with select US advertisers, letting ChatGPT users chat with business-sponsored AI agents and visit advertiser websites through ChatGPT ads.
One Extension Hijacks AI in Five Chromium Products
Forever Security researchers showed that one ordinary browser extension could hijack AI assistants across five Chromium-based products — Chrome, Comet, Edge, Opera Neon, and Claude in Chrome — by seiz
Next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 revealed
TechCrunch announced the next slate of five venture capitalists—drawn from Upfront Ventures, MaC Ventures, Revenge Capital, Amplify Partners, and GV—as judges for Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 20
3 days left to exhibit: Get your brand in front of VCs and high-value leads at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Founders and startups have until 11:59 p.m. PT on Friday, September 18 to reserve an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West with 10,000+ e
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Staff at OpenAI and Anthropic felt blindsided by public calls from CEOs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to slow frontier AI development, with some worrying that evaluators tasked with the process could co
Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M
Hang Ten Systems, the AI startup founded four months ago by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, has added $53 million to its seed funding round just five weeks after closing an initial $32 million, bring
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg joins Nvidia’s Huang in pushing back against AI slowdown (META:NASDAQ) - Seeking Alpha
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg joined Nvidia's Huang in publicly pushing back against calls to slow AI development, with Zuckerberg distancing Meta from coordinated pause efforts.
Zuckerberg, Huang Push Back On AI Slowdown Calls
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia's Jensen Huang publicly pushed back against AI slowdown calls from OpenAI and Anthropic, with Zuckerberg directly rebuffing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia's st
Russia trained kamikaze drones on Ukraine footage using Claude
Anthropic's Sept. 10 threat intelligence report reveals a Russia-based team used Claude to build software for autonomous kamikaze drones that pick and detonate targets without human confirmation, trai
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