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TechCrunch Industry News delivers daily audio articles handpicked by the editors of TechCrunch, covering the latest developments in technology, startups, and innovation. Each episode provides a concise summary of top tech news stories, keeping listeners informed about industry trends and breaking events. The podcast is produced by TechCrunch, a leading technology media property.
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Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home; plus, Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.
Also, Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).
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Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
Also, in a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
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India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch; plus, ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India.
Also, ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
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How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’; plus, how AI decision models could change content moderation
A Threads user wrote: "I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
Also, on Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
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OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU; plus, Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
Also, the company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
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Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’; plus, Amazon responds to data center backlash
A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.
Also, the CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
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Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president; plus, Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
Also, Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach; BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is cheaper
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
Also, the new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.
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OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.
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Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents; plus, the AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem.
Also, just like the rest of the U.S, data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.
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Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge; plus, Meta opens early access, and Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
Also, anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
And Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.
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Muse Charm is tapping into a trend; Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.
Also, the OpenAI hacking incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.
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Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.
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Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence; plus, Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
Also, Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
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Apple Store architect Ron Johnson doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping; plus, Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle
Johnson’s view comes as some of the world’s biggest tech companies are trying to push AI deeper into shopping, betting that agents can automate more of how we find and buy items.
Also, Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.
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OpenAI forms math advisory group; Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch; plus, the Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
Also, Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
And, many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history'; plus, Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
Also, King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and UK government.
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AI labs want in-house auditors — but maybe they should shut the front door first
There may be a simpler and more effective fix for rogue agents, hiding in plain sight.
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AI agents now have a place to snitch; also, US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan
The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.
Also, the AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.
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Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans ... plus a Volkswagen Electric Prototype and the new ClickFix attacks
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.
Also, Volkswagen's new efficiency-minded halo car is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car, the Lucid Air.
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Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards; plus, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
Also, while OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.
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Anthropic revealed rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you; plus, AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
Also, as AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests.
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Shiny new iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models; plus, DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku deal
Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.
Also, the Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn over more data and documents as it takes a closer look at the deal.
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‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
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Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government; plus, a hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it
Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now, the plant's owner is getting a $1.9B loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
Also, a hacker stole thousands of bitcoins worth about $340 million in a heist at a settlement exchange used by several cryptocurrency exchanges, one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.
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A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.
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Also, why is longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store?
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Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge; plus, the sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
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Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers to help us make this event happen. If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to volunteer.
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Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers to help us make this event happen. If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to volunteer.
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
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Open AI’s Astra model is very good at breaking into computer systems; Uber is laying off 3300; plus Norway considering ban on ‘pervert glasses’
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
Also, Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, or about 10% of its global headcount, in a bid to reduce management layers and invest more in its ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxi divisions.
And Norway says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.
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If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?;plus, Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns
The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.
Also, Flock's searchable network of 130,000 license plate cameras around the U.S. have sparked bipartisan privacy and civil liberties concerns.
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The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok; FTC accused Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme,' plus, Kalshi banned George Santos for life
Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.
Also, Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the FTC and 22 states for allegedly secretly charging businesses more for advertising.
And Kalshi's disciplinary action comes two months after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission settled charges against Santos.
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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem; plus, Caterpillar is bringing what it learned from automating mining to AI implementation
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
-Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.
-Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
-Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.
Also, Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
And the FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale; plus, Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
First announced last October, Jalapeño was developed by OpenAI in close collaboration with Broadcom, with OpenAI’s own models assisting in the development process.
Also, The M5 Ultra, which Apple deems its “most powerful chip ever,” fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips to form Apple’s first quad-die chip, designed to manage hefty AI workloads.
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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns; plus, Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
Also, Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? Plus, is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.
Also, most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
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A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Also, Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
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US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI
Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.
Also, Alation, a data search and AI giant, confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.
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OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach; plus, Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
Also, on Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastrructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.
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WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators, Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, and Amazon is destroying rare texts to train AI
-WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional website-building tools.
-Feedly's CEO said that despite the pivot to cyber threat intelligence, fixing the basic RSS functionality is still a priority because our CTI community uses the news-reading capability.
-Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning the
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’; plus, a Tennessee woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
Also, the woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
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Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
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As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng—debated regulation, open-source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
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Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models; plus, as AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.
Also, OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
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Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision; Claude Code’s auto mode will be on by default
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
Also, programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
This article written for TechCrunch by Rebecca Bellan.
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Ford needs another Taurus, and the $30K Fathom EV pickup isn’t it; plus, China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries
Ford's CEO has described the new Ford Fathom as a "Model T moment" for the company. But the EV pickup is unlikely to live up to lofty expectations, and maybe it doesn't have to.
Also, researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware's operators placed an order with KFC using their real name and office address.
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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales; plus, Zoox will begin charging for robotaxi rides in Vegas; and, Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
-Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
-Zoox said that it will start charging for rides in Las Vegas starting August 10, marking the launch of its commercial operations. The company has spent years working towards this moment.
-The Claude maker said it is planning to
Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate; plus, Bending Spoons buying Airtable for $1.28B
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual penetration testing.
Also, at its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
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The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air; plus, Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers
The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.
Also, new security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.
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Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT; plus, YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
Also, Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years; plus, in the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
Also, cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFace has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.
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Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
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Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech; plus, Sam Altman is ready to decelerate.
AI naysayers know that this technology is far broader than just chatbots and deepfake apps.
Also, Sam Altman's change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally,' not a visit to his local library.
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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon; plus, PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover
Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.
Also, after reporting better-than-expected Q2 results, PayPal said it remains focused on its AI-driven turnaround, but would consider a deal that creates more value for shareholders.
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Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive; plus, Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam
Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won't survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.
Also, Apple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from the App Store, challenging the company’s longstanding claims that its app review process keeps users safe from scams.
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Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack; plus, the hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught
Hugging Face's CEO Clem Delangue said, "the first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
Also, an awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business; plus, OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
Also, ChatGPT users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter; plus, if you pay a hacker’s ransom, they’ll come back for more
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
Also, the latest research reaffirmed that hackers often demanded more money if a victim paid the first time.
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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned; plus, Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
Also, the final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
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Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’; plus, Hugging Face confirmed a breach
Nolan said, “I think AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside.” He later described the technology as “a transparent horse, it’s made of glass.”
Also, Hugging Face disclosed the breach on Friday, but said it was still investigating whether any customer or partner data was stolen during the incident.
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Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal; plus BP done with climate tech and X cracking down thieving creators
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
Also, BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20 year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.
And X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.
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UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group; plus, why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in jail for hacking London’s metropolitan transit system.
Also, you may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.
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OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move; plus, Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory
OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move. Weird enough for you?
Also, an old Oscar Meyer factory in Wisconsin will become America's latest fusion power research and development hub.
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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
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Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI; plus, Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.
Also, Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters.”
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Character.ai enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but with a twist; plus, ‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.
Also, Roost's developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.
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Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps; plus, Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom
With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.
Also, ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
Plus, Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 bil
The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human; plus, hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.
Also, the U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk; Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Also, the hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.
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What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
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Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become; plus, Mark Zuckerberg said AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low-and-behold.
And at an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
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US government says it got hacked — again; Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company
A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.
Also, Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
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Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction; plus, the ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring
Realta Fusion showed it could generate electricity from a fusion reaction, no steam turbine required.
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.
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The AI jobs debate just got messier; plus, 92 GW of new electricity supply threatened with red tape
A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.
Also, the Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.
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Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short; Rocket Lab continues its buying spree; and why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia
Ford execs said, "mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
Also, the all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion, and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.
Plus, eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a
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