Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads
More than 3 million people prompt Meta’s Muse at least once a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information. More than 1 million send the AI agent a prompt every da…
Medical records giant Epic pauses product development to fix security bugs that risk patients’ data
The health tech software giant, which makes the widely used MyChart system for accessing medical data, will focus on fixing security bugs for the next few weeks.
Rivian’s R2 just helped it set a new sales record
Deliveries jumped roughly 45% compared to the same quarter last year, with Rivian delivering more than 19,000 EVs.
Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports
Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which …
Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with…
Rivian issues R2 recall for poorly tightened battery packs
The company says around 14 vehicles may be affected, and that it has resolved the issue on the assembly line.
Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter
Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose…
EU set to name AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers in November
The European Commission plans to name Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in November, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Citing …
Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports
Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an inter…
California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC
OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. T…
Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings
In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It…
The AI race is becoming a test of strategy, not just software
AI has become remarkably good at making organizations move faster and more efficiently. The harder question is whether companies know where they should be going. As artificial int…
Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one …
OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports
The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to …
Amazon pledges $1bn over five years to US data centre communities
Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programm…
America isn’t short of electricity. It’s short of places to plug in fast enough.
On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening and the system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a …
Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, Ars Technica reports
Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for plann…
Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data centre in Finland
Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebius’s new data centre in Mäntsälä, southern Finland, in a deal valued at about €15 million. The company announc…
The difference between a liar and a bullshitter
Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you don’t expect to see in an academic journal, “On Bullshit.” It stayed largely i…
AI broke the economics of software. Vayu wants to be the first to tell a CFO which customers are losing them money
Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every o…
French state-owned Bull doubles supercomputer output at Angers factory
Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, western France, after an €80 million rebuild. The plant now assembles 12 racks a…
SoftBank completes $30bn OpenAI investment with final $10bn payment
SoftBank Group has completed its $30bn follow-on investment in OpenAI, after paying the third and final $10bn tranche on 1 October, Japan time. The Japanese group made the payment…
Robotaxi operators will face fines for blocking first responders
A new California law places new rules on autonomous vehicles operators
The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.