Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Two of New York’s sweethearts, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and activist and “Broad City” star Ilana Glazer, spoke about AI at...
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Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal
In Brief Posted: 4:39 PM PDT · October 19, 2026 Image Credits:Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg / Getty Images A little over a...
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are...
Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft on Monday introduced new security features designed to protect enterprises from the growing threat of AI agents. The launch...
Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto...
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent that has been gaining ground among developers as an alternative to Claude Code and...
Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
Tolan, the AI companion designed to help people manage their daily lives, navigate relationships and emotions, and accomplish their goals,...
Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Twelve years ago today, Eugenia Kuyda stood up on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt and presented a conversational chatbot called IO...
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026 Image Credits:Tenstorrent Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has...
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
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