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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'
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
Alation confirms cyberattack, withholds customer impact
Enterprise data intelligence company Alation confirmed a cyberattack days after customers experienced 'degraded availability,' but declined to disclose the attack's nature, root cause, or which custom
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.
125M Transformer Autocompletes Piano at 108 Notes/Sec On-Device
A solo developer trained a 125M-parameter transformer that autocompletes piano performances at ~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15 after 14 experiments over nearly a year, with MIDI representation design,
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
Cat Litter Box Now Has Motion-Activated 'On Air' Sign
A Verge writer's partner wired a motion-activated 'On Air' neon sign above the cats' litter box using a spare sensor from their water fountain, so every bathroom visit is now broadcast in glowing neon
Muon Space raises $250M Series C with Google backing
Satellite startup Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, closed a $250 million Series C round with participation from Google's parent Alphabet.
Binance launches Agent OS, puts AI trading limits on users
Binance launched Agent OS, letting AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude Code analyze markets and execute trades on behalf of the exchange's 300 million registered users, with guardrails built around user
Data Center Backlash Reshapes Midterms
A surge of grassroots opposition to AI data centers is disrupting the midterm elections, forcing candidates to rethink their positions amid breaking bipartisan support for tech infrastructure projects
From Rs 9 workshops to 5 Million learners skilled for six-figure jobs: Inside Be10x’s growth playbook
Be10x, founded by IIT Kharagpur alumni, is pivoting from Rs 9 workshops into certifications, AI workflow tools, and career programs after scaling to 5 million learners trained for six-figure jobs as d
ChatGPT Outage Blocks Logins and Codex
OpenAI confirmed ChatGPT was down with users unable to log in or create new accounts, an outage that also affected the web interface and Codex before being resolved.
Data Centers Face Rising Backlash Threatening AI Growth
Data centers have become the focal point of a growing AI backlash, with celebrities, politicians, and protesters pushing to slow their expansion as America's public opposition rises sharply.
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