DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that reads team chats
DeepSeek has released the code for Super-Agent, an experimental AI agent that takes on coding work for a software team. The Chinese AI lab put it on GitHub under the name dsh-supe…
Baseten set to more than double its value to $30bn, Bloomberg reports
Baseten, the AI inference startup, is set to raise about $2bn at a valuation of up to $30bn, more than double its price in June. Rebecca Torrence and Bailey Lipschultz reported th…
Finnish police open investigation into Google’s Muhos data centre site
Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation into Google’s data centre site in Muhos, in the north of the country. The Oulu Police Department is investigating suspected env…
UK watchdog opens an investigation into Meta’s AI terms for publishers
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an investigation into Meta’s commercial terms for businesses. It will examine whether Meta is abusing a dominant positi…
FBI says North Korea stole more than $6bn in the Binance hack
The FBI has blamed the Binance hack on North Korea. On Saturday, the bureau said North Korea stole more than $6bn in virtual assets from Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchan…
Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn
At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to …
GM will pay $220m to settle claims it sold drivers’ Smart Driver data
General Motors will pay $220m to 35 US states and the District of Columbia over drivers’ data. The states said GM sold it to data brokers, who sold it on to insurance companies. G…
Big Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026. That is the smallest sh…
Amazon wants Alexa for Shopping, not Muse, to be how people shop its store
Few people shop through outside AI agents yet, because the experience is not good enough, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy told analysts on Thursday. He expects Amazon’s own assi…
AWS grows 39% and Amazon will spend even more on AI in 2027
Amazon’s free cash flow fell to minus $42.4bn over the 12 months to September. Spending on AI drove most of the drop, the company said on Thursday. A year earlier it was a positiv…
Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
AI is easy to fake, Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz tells SF Standard
Tyler Shultz helped expose the blood-testing fraud at Theranos. He now says AI is hard to vet, and investors need to do real due diligence. Few laws govern AI, he added, which mak…
4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale
On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the …
Pope Leo urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks
Pope Leo XIV called on Friday for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed”. Decisions on human life, freedom and the use of force must always stay under human oversight, he said. …
Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
OpenAI tightens ChatGPT’s limits on weapons and past mass attacks
ChatGPT will stop giving teenagers practical information about weapons and security systems, even when a question looks harmless, OpenAI said on Friday. The limit applies to teen …
Twenty House Democrats press OpenAI over fired safety researchers
Twenty House Democrats have asked OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman to promise not to fire OpenAI whistleblowers who share safety information. They also want OpenAI to keep its pa…
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
From restaurant guides to payments, here’s how TikTok is building a super app
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over.
The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it’s also fun and engaging enough that I didn’t want to switch back to my Pro Max.
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt. It lets a website keep its content out of generative AI training with a single ru…
Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark
Samsung hosted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman for talks with about 50 of its presidents on Saturday. Two days earlier, a podcast went out in which Sam Altman said it is “quite …
OpenAI cuts its funding round target to $20bn, FT reports
OpenAI has cut the target for its latest funding round by $10bn, to about $20bn. The Financial Times reported the cut on Friday 30 October, citing people with knowledge of the mat…
Anthropic denies breach as tampered Claude Code extension hits Cursor users
A tampered copy of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension sat in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours on Thursday 29 October. It reached up to 5,000 users. The malicious v…