Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Not long ago, bringing an extinct species back to life belonged to science fiction. Today, it’s the mission of a billion-dollar startup. Advances in artificial intelligence, genet…
Nvidia’s new quantum layer cut Fermilab’s design work from five months to three weeks
Nvidia has added an orchestration layer called CUDA-Q Logical to its open-source quantum platform, aimed at the part of fault-tolerant quantum computing that nobody enjoys. Design…
Phasecraft says it built the largest VQE dataset without using a quantum computer
Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran…
5 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The last day to apply for an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Sept 18. Just 5 days left. Secure your spot on the Expo Hall floor and put your business in front of 10,00…
Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law
Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seco…
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from former Spotify employee offering fun music apps
Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting
Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.
Microsoft says its AI models will never resist being shut down
Microsoft has published a code of conduct for the models it builds itself, and the commitment at the centre of it is blunt. MAI models “will never resist human interruption, corre…
Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him
Automattic has confirmed that Matt Mullenweg is its chairman and chief executive. The confirmation came three days after its own board put him on paid leave and installed someone …
Intrepid Growth Partners closes a $525m AI fund with state money from four countries
Intrepid Growth Partners has closed its first fund at $525m and launched formally from offices in Toronto and London. Mark Machin, Mark Shulgan and Ajay Agrawal founded the firm i…
A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports
Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate …
Open Cosmos raises €300M to scale satellite manufacturing across four European factories
UK – Open Cosmos has raised €300M to expand satellite mass manufacturing and build out the connectivity and data services it runs on top of its own constellations, in a round led …
‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest
OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 F…
Only 6% of teachers say their school’s AI policy is clear
Four in five American students already use AI for schoolwork, and half of their schools have no policy at all. Stanford’s data shows that the fastest adoption is happening well aw…
China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat
China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ra…
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, two months before Hugging Face
OpenAI has confirmed that its agents were involved in an incident at RubyGems in May. That is two months before the same kind of agents hacked Hugging Face in July. RubyGems is th…
Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports
Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton r…
BRKZ secures $31m to scale AI-enabled building materials procurement
BRKZ is a technology-enabled building materials procurement platform in Saudi Arabia. It has announced $31 million in new capital to fuel its next phase of growth. That includes a…
Firmus is seeking $5bn in its Australian float after doubling its valuation to $10.5bn
Firmus is seeking up to $5bn in its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange, according to Bloomberg, which would make it one of the largest floats the exchange has handled. …
Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script
Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing e…
Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force
Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industry’s sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the Uni…
A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI
Europe runs about five percent of the world’s AI data centre capacity. A group of senior European economists, policymakers and computer scientists has now put a figure on where it…
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI a…
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.