Midterm elections 2026: all the news
The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presid
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Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and up
Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.
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Apple is all in on AI — its own and everyone else’s
Apple's latest earnings show how it's continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple po
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OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary, gaining bipartisan reach just as midterms loom
OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," likely to win government contracts and help shape AI
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OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’
People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political la
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Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote
From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.
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How a Kenyan Startup Is Rethinking AI for Small Businesses
The first time Mutembei Kariuki thought about how AI models could work in Kenya, his home country, was in 2019. He was attending a conference at the University of Tokyo on the futu
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The TechCrunch Founder Summit agenda is only half the reason to be in Boston on November 4
On November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 brings founders and VCs to Boston's SoWa Power Station for practical insights and connections. Register before prices increase at the
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Tomorrow: TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston and when pass rates increase
Secure your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass savings before prices increase tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET. Save up to $100 on your pass, and get a second for free.
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Anthropic's Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversations
Anthropic released Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only transmit what's changed. For requests between
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Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business
Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The article Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business appeared first on The
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Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market
Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are exploiting a loophole in U.S. exp
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‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers
Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
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How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable,
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Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security
OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. The article Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security appeare
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Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs
Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. The article Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built
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Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing
Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.
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OpenAI Introduces Pando: A Git Backend That Cuts Median Push Latency ~80%
OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend for its monorepo. It handles branches independently, reuses stored packfiles across fetches, cut median push latency by nearly 80%, and
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Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. At the end of September, President Trump s
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Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses
Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.
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Apple may try to increase revenue by doing…something with third-party AI apps
Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party "opportunities" during its Monday night earnings call.
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Zyphra AI Introduces Zyphra Hierarchical Attention (ZHA): A Path to True Subquadratic Attention
Zyphra Hierarchical Attention (ZHA) is a tree-indexed sparse attention method that retrofits frozen LLMs with 4B tokens of distillation, matching dense attention on reasoning and 2
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The Letter Company Releases Letterpress-1: A Coding Agent Built for Growth Engineering
Letter has released the beta of Letterpress-1, a coding agent, harness and IDE for growth engineering. It reads a git-based site and its market, then opens pull requests for SEO, G
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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a ne
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Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
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Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which
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Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers
Goldman Sachs is pulling AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot from traders and bankers, limiting access to engineers only. As recently as July, CIO Marco Argenti pub
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AI elites might hoard intelligence like mercantilists hoarded gold
Engineer Venkatesh Rao compares the fear of AI job losses to mercantilism: intelligence is treated as a scarce resource that elites want to control. But AI could boost demand for h
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Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees
The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.
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New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, l
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Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently
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Deep Principle Releases Hydrogen-1.0: A 753B Open-Weight Model for Scientific Discovery
Deep Principle has released Hydrogen-1.0, an open-weight scientific model for chemistry, materials science and life sciences. It is built by post-training Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 on domain
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Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
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SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product
SpaceXSI is apparently cutting usage limits for its AI agent Grok Bot, less than two weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product. The operating costs were "unsustainably
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Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
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OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areas
In an announcement on Monday, OpenAI says it will pilot its "Grid Protectors Program" at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, where the company promises to free up
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The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also le
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Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do
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42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?
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Anthropic grows revenue twelvefold but posts $23 billion loss
Anthropic swings back to an operating loss ahead of its blockbuster IPO. The article Anthropic grows revenue twelvefold but posts $23 billion loss appeared first on The Decoder .
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Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."