a16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI
I wrote this week about the bleak economics of consumer AI — but where some see a crisis, others see...
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise
Four days. That’s all that stands between now and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders descend on...
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question...
Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while...
Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers...
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford...
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer...
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open...
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret genius, as...
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models, has raised...