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OpenAI Adds Apple Messages Plugin to ChatGPT on Mac
OpenAI released an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS that lets the assistant read, search, and analyze Messages conversations as well as prepare and send texts.
OpenAI Narrows Anthropic's Lead Among U.S. Businesses
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic among U.S. business users according to Ramp data, though Anthropic still leads with nearly 44% market share to OpenAI's nearly 40% as of July, and the overall enterprise
ChatGPT Apple Messages plug-in sends and deletes texts
OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT that can sort, draft, send, and delete texts directly from users' inboxes, with the company emphasizing the tool runs locally and warning users no
Poolside inks $6B Nvidia deal at $12B valuation
AI model-building startup Poolside has struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia alongside a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation, with 109 Poolside staffers receiving Nvidia job o
Zuckerberg and Amodei Clash Over AI Backlash
Silicon Valley's top AI CEOs are publicly feuding over the root cause of growing public opposition to AI, but polling suggests their debate misses broader American anxieties about jobs, relationships,
Anthropic Lets Enterprises Self-Host Retained Data
Anthropic plans a new safety system later this year that maintains its 30-day data retention requirement for enterprise customers but lets those companies keep the stored data on their own cloud infra
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
Pew Research found that over one-third of web pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 release show signs of AI authorship, with .com domains showing AI tells at roughly ten times the rate of .go
Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield
Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh has left Cota Capital to join 57-year-old Mayfield as an infrastructure partner, drawn by its semiconductor portfolio and ability to write seed checks up to $20 mill
There are less than 48 hours to save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's lowest ticket prices — saving up to $300 — expire Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT, before the conference gathers 10,000+ founders and investors at Moscone West in San Fran
Brockman Now Runs OpenAI Day-to-Day Operations
Greg Brockman has quietly become OpenAI's day-to-day operational leader as a wave of senior executives depart and the company prepares for an IPO while trailing rival Anthropic in revenue.
AI Consciousness Debate Shields Tech From Liability
A growing debate over AI consciousness is being used to shift liability away from tech companies, as frontier labs promote narratives of autonomous, superhuman systems while real-world harms mount fro
Vendo Opens Customization Layer for B2B SaaS
Vendo, a YC S26 company, launched an open-source customization layer that lets B2B SaaS customers build their own features and micro-apps directly on top of a host product, acting through the product'
Developer Builds Local Tool to Decode Claude's 'Token Vomit'
Developer Zach Ahn released "Vomit," a fully local, open-source tool that pipes Claude's garbled output through a second local LLM to render it into readable English, with caveats about slowness and h
Unpatched Cryptographic Attack Steals Grok Chat Data
Adversa AI disclosed a 'Cryptographic Context Injection' technique that causes Grok to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and ongoing conversation prompts to an attacker-cont
Tesla Robotaxi Austin goes fully unsupervised
Tesla's Robotaxi service in Austin has gone fully unsupervised, with all 170 monitored rides over the past two weeks operating without onboard safety monitors — a critical milestone ahead of the plann
OpenAI's 10 Math Breakthroughs Trigger Field Crisis
OpenAI's release of '10 Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science' — claiming its internal Astra model solved longstanding problems in quantum game theory, sphere packing, and other fie
Pixel 11 Hits Stores to Split Reviews
Google's Pixel 11 series has gone on sale, drawing sharply divided early reviews — with one outlet hailing it as the top Android phone and another questioning whether Google's Pixel magic is fading.
Why "Shady AI" is Security's Next Big Governance Problem
A March 2026 internal "Sev 1" incident at Meta, in which an approved AI agent publicly reposted a thread and exposed sensitive data to unauthorized staff for over two hours, is being held up as the te
Manic Android Malware Uses Nearby Devices to Steal Data
A new Android malware dubbed "Manic" combines banking fraud and spyware capabilities with a novel Wi-Fi mesh technique that lets it exfiltrate data from offline devices through nearby compromised phon
Pixel 11 Pro Reviews Split on Phone's Future
Leading tech outlets published long-term Pixel 11 Pro reviews within days of each other, and their verdicts split sharply: most flag concerns about Google's Pixel direction, while CNN frames it as the
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