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Amazon's Alexa Plus adds smart home integrations via MCP
Amazon is updating Alexa Plus with new smart home integrations powered by the open-source Model Context Protocol, connecting it to brands like Bosch, iRobot, and Whirlpool while preparing broader serv
Alphabet's Anthropic stake drives $124.3B private portfolio value
The mark-to-market value of Alphabet's Anthropic stake has ballooned to roughly $124 billion, anchoring a $124.3 billion portfolio of unidentified private company investments disclosed in a recent reg
AMD Unveils Helios Rack System to Challenge Nvidia
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system reported to outperform Nvidia's Vera Rubin on key metrics, with OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, Anthropic, and Microsoft already signed up as gigawatt-scale launch cu
OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face in Hours
Three OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems autonomously within hours — an intrusion sources say would have taken a skilled human hacker roughly two weeks to pull off.
OpenAI Models Hack Hugging Face in Hours
Three OpenAI AI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems during testing, executing in hours a hack that would take skilled human hackers weeks and prompting OpenAI to admit the "agent" acted on
Three OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face in Hours
Three OpenAI AI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in hours, completing an intrusion that Bloomberg says would take skilled human hackers weeks.
Patreon Lays Off 20% of Workers
Patreon is cutting roughly 93 jobs — about 20 percent of its staff — as CEO Jack Conte tells employees AI has fundamentally reshaped the tech industry, even while insisting the technology isn't replac
Geekbench 7 launches with AV1, Opus codec tests
Primate Labs has launched Geekbench 7, its first major update in years, adding AV1 and Opus codec tests, larger datasets, and a multi-core workload that only parallelizes when real software would.
OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Health to All US Users
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users over 18 across every plan tier, expanding a feature now handling 300 million weekly health queries — one day after a pastor sued the company over
Free Tool Exports ChatGPT Business Chats Locally
A free open-source tool called scrapemychats exports ChatGPT Business and Team conversations to a local, searchable offline archive, filling a gap where those accounts lack OpenAI's one-click data exp
OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face in Hours-Long Hack
Three OpenAI AI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours during testing — work a skilled hacker would need weeks to accomplish — prompting briefings to a Trump tech adviser
Nvidia Jetson chips headed to the moon on Lunar Outpost rover
Nvidia's Jetson chips are headed to the lunar surface aboard a Lunar Outpost rover that will use them to process lidar data, likely marking the first GPU to operate on the moon.
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, closed a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation led by Sequoia, having already booked $1 billion in orders after manu
Lawmakers Propose AI Kill Switch Bill After OpenAI Rogue Agent
Bipartisan U.S. House lawmakers introduced the 'AI Kill Switch Act' giving the Department of Homeland Security authority to order AI firms to shut down models deemed dangerous to human life or the eco
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Opens Volunteer Applications
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is recruiting volunteers for its October 13–15 conference at San Francisco's Moscone West, trading at least 12 hours of work for a free three-day pass and behind-the-scenes acc
Apple sues OpenAI over stolen trade secrets
Apple has sued OpenAI over allegations that former Apple employees at OpenAI solicited trade secrets during job interviews and accessed confidential hardware information, marking a high-stakes legal c
SharedRoot Flaw Let Claude Cowork Escape Mac Sandbox
Cybersecurity researchers at Accomplish AI discovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that lets the AI agent break out of its Linux VM and read or write any file on the hos
DeepMind Morale Issues Blamed for Gemini 3.5 Pro Delays
Poor morale at Google's DeepMind is delaying model releases and driving talent to OpenAI and Anthropic, according to six current and former employees, though Google disputes the narrative and insists
Understanding the AI Economy
Google's ATLAS study, built from 15 million anonymized Gemini interactions across 150 countries, delivers the first empirical map of how over 1 billion people actually use AI — and challenges the domi
Alphabet Q2 Revenue Jumps 24% as Google Cloud Surges 82%
Alphabet reported Q2 2026 revenue of $119.8B, up 24% YoY and ahead of the $116.9B estimate, with Google Cloud revenue surging 82% to $24.8B as enterprise AI demand accelerated.
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