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OpenAI, Google, Meta Staff Push for AI Development Pause
After Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned citing AI doomsday concerns, employees at OpenAI, Meta, and Google mobilized via encrypted chats and private dinners to pressure executives for
Valve is still figuring out ‘how and when’ to do Steam Deck 2
Valve designer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed to IGN that the company is still working out the timing for a Steam Deck successor, emphasizing that finding the right chip without sacrificing battery li
AI Leaders Pledge Slowdown — Critics Cry Cartel
Major AI leaders — OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk — loosely agreed over the weekend to slow frontier AI development, sparking fierce deb
Shield AI in Talks to Raise Funds at $20B+ Valuation
Defense tech startup Shield AI is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of at least $20 billion, just months after raising $2 billion at a $12.7 billion valuation in March.
Nuance Labs raises $50M for conversational AI avatars
Nuance Labs raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed with Nvidia participating to develop low-latency AI avatars capable of real-time, emotionally aware face-to-face conversations.
Trump Met Altman Privately as AI Leaders Urge Slowdown
Sam Altman arranged a private backstage meeting with Trump at the GOP midterm convention to discuss AI and its growing power, the same weekend Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei all p
Cornelis raises $205M to challenge Nvidia with open AI fabric
Cornelis, an AI infrastructure startup spun off from Intel, raised $205 million to scale its networking technology aimed at reducing data bottlenecks in GPU computing and challenging Nvidia’s dominanc
Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday, where Trump dismissed AI safety concerns as a "hoax" and declared "the robots will not be taking ove
Anthropic Launches Claude for Financial Advisors
Anthropic debuted Claude for Financial Advisors on Monday, a set of tools connecting its chatbot to investment analytics and wealth-management platforms including BlackRock, Addepar, and Schwab.
China Prepares for AI Escaping Human Control
China is publicly preparing for the risk of AI escaping human control even as Beijing dismisses warnings from Western AI executives, including Anthropic's CEO, as "fear mongering."
OpenAI Buys Glass Imaging for $300M+
OpenAI quietly acquired Glass Imaging, an AI-powered smartphone camera tech startup founded by former Apple employees, in a deal valuing the company above $300 million — up from roughly $100 million a
Anthropic co-founder backs mandatory AI kill switches
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says AI companies may eventually need a mandatory, third-party-verifiable 'kill switch' to shut down dangerous systems, as the AI safety debate intensifies with executi
Top AI Lab Chiefs Unite to Call for LLM Slowdown
Top US AI lab leaders—including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Google's Demis Hassabis—have publicly united around calls to slow LLM development, citing cyberattack and bioterroris
Cybercab's Highway Ban Turns Austin Trip Into 70-Min Detour
A Tesla Cybercab rider in Austin saw a 10-minute trip balloon to 70 minutes because the driverless taxi can't use highways and avoids at-grade railroad crossings, forcing a long surface-street detour
With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again
Apple's iOS 27 ships a rebuilt Siri powered by Google's Gemini models, enabling complex multistep requests, on-screen context awareness, and Camera-based visual queries across all iPhone 11 and later
Apple rolls out iOS 27 with delayed Siri AI overhaul
Apple is rolling out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 today, with the delayed Siri AI overhaul launching in beta for English-only devices.
Tandem Health raises $100M for AI medical notes
Stockholm-based Tandem Health raised a $100M Series B led by Scaleup Europe Fund to scale its AI copilot that automatically generates medical notes during doctor consultations.
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host a Builders Stage panel with leaders from Airbyte, Webflow, and Radical Ventures examining how AI startups can defend against foundation model companies absorbing thei
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from a former Spotify leader for making music apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a startup founded by former Spotify innovation head Máuhan M Zonoozy, raised a $5.5M pre-seed round to build small music-creation apps that deliberately limit AI in favor of hu
Trump Goes All-In on AI as Democrats Split on Shutdown
President Trump is fully committed to AI with no interest in dystopian warnings, while Democrats remain internally split between skepticism and calls to shut the technology down.
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