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OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"(techcrunch.com)

308 points by trakkstar 17 days ago | 201 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute the company's misconduct claims and warn of a chilling effect on safety work.

First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months(techcrunch.com)

137 points by hochmartinez 20 days ago | 59 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that the world's first enhanced geothermal power plant was completed in 23 months.

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'(techcrunch.com)

409 points by sbulaev 22 days ago | 229 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that a federal judge described Flock's camera network as 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'.

OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity(techcrunch.com)

78 points by mikelgan 27 days ago | 74 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that OpenAI still appears unable to fully control rogue AI activity tied to its systems.

Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people's data to the web(techcrunch.com)

4 points by rvz 1 month ago | 0 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that some Supabase customers have misconfigured databases publicly exposing large amounts of personal data.

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave(techcrunch.com)

117 points by ilamont 1 month ago | 141 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Automattic has a new board of directors following a failed attempt to put its CEO on leave.

Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes(techcrunch.com)

13 points by Brajeshwar 1 month ago | 4 comments

TechCrunch news article reporting that Comma's hands-off driving assistance technology is under investigation following two fatal crashes.

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'(techcrunch.com)

788 points by pluc 1 month ago | 681 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that unredacted court filings show a Microsoft executive called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history.'

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M(techcrunch.com)

109 points by myth_drannon 1 month ago | 74 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster(techcrunch.com)

248 points by ilamont 1 month ago | 331 comments

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too(techcrunch.com)

360 points by TheJCDenton 1 month ago | 192 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models.

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests(techcrunch.com)

147 points by tdrz 1 month ago | 101 comments

OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026(techcrunch.com)

57 points by humanlion87 1 month ago | 47 comments

Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster(techcrunch.com)

99 points by mkeeter 1 month ago | 80 comments

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence(techcrunch.com)

381 points by LeoPanthera 1 month ago | 252 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Automattic's board has forced CEO Matt Mullenweg to take a leave of absence.

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem(techcrunch.com)

115 points by jonbaer 1 month ago | 21 comments

OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts(techcrunch.com)

16 points by Brajeshwar 1 month ago | 3 comments

Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU(techcrunch.com)

12 points by 01-_- 1 month ago | 5 comments

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI(techcrunch.com)

82 points by rzk 2 months ago | 41 comments

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+(techcrunch.com)

396 points by zacharyozer 2 months ago | 244 comments

A news report that Stripe will reportedly acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion; the captured page shows a Bloomberg bot-check captcha.

Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it(techcrunch.com)

37 points by ashurandi 2 months ago | 35 comments

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux(techcrunch.com)

28 points by ashurandi 2 months ago | 9 comments

Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app(techcrunch.com)

73 points by newusertoday 2 months ago | 148 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy(techcrunch.com)

203 points by evo_9 2 months ago | 156 comments

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI(techcrunch.com)

319 points by thewebguyd 2 months ago | 243 comments

TechCrunch article reporting Apple's claim that additional former employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI.

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire(techcrunch.com)

412 points by forks 3 months ago | 333 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that the LAPD let its contract with surveillance company Flock expire, citing serious concerns over civil liberties and privacy.

Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring(techcrunch.com)

347 points by compiler-guy 3 months ago | 189 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Vint Cerf, known as the 'Father of the Internet', is retiring.

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk(techcrunch.com)

117 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 35 comments

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public(techcrunch.com)

53 points by jack1689 3 months ago | 77 comments

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough(techcrunch.com)

101 points by msolujic 3 months ago | 86 comments

Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short(techcrunch.com)

110 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 37 comments

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models(techcrunch.com)

252 points by bogdiyan 4 months ago | 186 comments

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom(techcrunch.com)

792 points by jamdesk 4 months ago | 451 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI inference chip, codenamed Jalapeno, built in partnership with Broadcom.

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash(techcrunch.com)

16 points by randycupertino 4 months ago | 2 comments

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market(techcrunch.com)

23 points by gsky 4 months ago | 24 comments

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone(techcrunch.com)

128 points by Brajeshwar 4 months ago | 62 comments

NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission(techcrunch.com)

28 points by isaacfrond 4 months ago | 36 comments

Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society(techcrunch.com)

321 points by karakoram 4 months ago | 312 comments

TechCrunch article reporting a study finding only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society.

Apple plans change to Hide My Email that could make it less effective(techcrunch.com)

17 points by memalign 4 months ago | 1 comments

DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'(techcrunch.com)

69 points by dlgeek 4 months ago | 39 comments

Fable ban was never about a jailbreak(techcrunch.com)

81 points by amarant 4 months ago | 25 comments

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations(techcrunch.com)

97 points by Brajeshwar 4 months ago | 16 comments

Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents(techcrunch.com)

82 points by gnabgib 4 months ago | 89 comments

Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable(techcrunch.com)

560 points by speckx 4 months ago | 489 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that cybersecurity researchers are unhappy with the restrictive safety guardrails on Anthropic's Claude Fable model.

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers(techcrunch.com)

521 points by raffael_de 4 months ago | 176 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Microsoft open source tools were compromised to steal passwords from AI developers.

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers(techcrunch.com)

65 points by jbernardo95 4 months ago | 27 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump(techcrunch.com)

75 points by pseudolus 4 months ago | 37 comments

Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill(techcrunch.com)

296 points by 01-_- 4 months ago | 49 comments

Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?(techcrunch.com)

19 points by pseudo-usama 4 months ago | 34 comments

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute(techcrunch.com)

403 points by ramanan 4 months ago | 577 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for computing capacity.

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months(techcrunch.com)

34 points by notfried 4 months ago | 10 comments

Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15 countries(techcrunch.com)

42 points by Timofeibu 4 months ago | 20 comments

DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms(techcrunch.com)

231 points by jaredwiener 4 months ago | 118 comments

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions(techcrunch.com)

258 points by tambourine_man 4 months ago | 449 comments

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant(techcrunch.com)

13 points by rishikeshs 4 months ago | 19 comments

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks(techcrunch.com)

77 points by wapasta 4 months ago | 149 comments

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis(techcrunch.com)

611 points by IAmGraydon 5 months ago | 304 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that tech CEOs are apparently exhibiting so-called AI psychosis from their heavy engagement with AI.

Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore(techcrunch.com)

460 points by elorant 5 months ago | 430 comments

TechCrunch article recommending six alternative search engines to try as Google Search shifts toward AI-driven results.

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links(techcrunch.com)

300 points by spike021 5 months ago | 172 comments

Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods(techcrunch.com)

50 points by Vaslo 5 months ago | 1 comments

You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'(techcrunch.com)

99 points by coloneltcb 5 months ago | 50 comments

Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data(techcrunch.com)

205 points by rippeltippel 5 months ago | 88 comments

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods(techcrunch.com)

348 points by mattas 5 months ago | 426 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Waymo paused its Atlanta robotaxi service after its vehicles repeatedly drove into flooded roads.

Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI(techcrunch.com)

195 points by wapasta 5 months ago | 143 comments

Google Search as you know it is over(techcrunch.com)

90 points by evo_9 5 months ago | 108 comments

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI(techcrunch.com)

1011 points by nycdatasci 5 months ago | 515 comments

TechCrunch news article reporting that Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.

Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators(techcrunch.com)

29 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 21 comments

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea(techcrunch.com)

66 points by brandonb 5 months ago | 45 comments

GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills(techcrunch.com)

28 points by jnord 5 months ago | 30 comments

Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack(techcrunch.com)

26 points by Veiled 5 months ago | 1 comments

Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache(techcrunch.com)

18 points by jamdesk 5 months ago | 6 comments

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants(techcrunch.com)

464 points by ZeidJ 5 months ago | 153 comments

TechCrunch brief reporting that US healthcare insurance marketplaces shared users' citizenship and race data with ad tech companies.

Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies(techcrunch.com)

124 points by nickvec 5 months ago | 134 comments

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber(techcrunch.com)

107 points by gbourne1 5 months ago | 82 comments

Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel and WHM(techcrunch.com)

17 points by dotmanish 5 months ago | 0 comments

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute(techcrunch.com)

185 points by elpakal 6 months ago | 100 comments

Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees(techcrunch.com)

22 points by darth_avocado 6 months ago | 19 comments

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns(techcrunch.com)

363 points by mentalgear 6 months ago | 123 comments

TechCrunch article on Citizen Lab research finding surveillance vendors abused telecom network access to track people's phone locations.

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones(techcrunch.com)

847 points by cdrnsf 6 months ago | 183 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Apple fixed an iPhone bug police used to extract deleted chat messages from devices.

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return(techcrunch.com)

242 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | 247 comments

Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over(techcrunch.com)

28 points by Vortigaunt 6 months ago | 1 comments

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated(techcrunch.com)

333 points by FiddlerClamp 6 months ago | 328 comments

TechCrunch article reporting Deezer's statement that 44% of songs uploaded daily to its streaming platform are AI-generated.

Everything we like is a psyop?(techcrunch.com)

257 points by evo_9 6 months ago | 169 comments

Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive(techcrunch.com)

676 points by jrm-veris 6 months ago | 197 comments

TechCrunch brief reporting that thousands of rare concert recordings are being uploaded to the Internet Archive for public listening.

Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone(techcrunch.com)

210 points by ZeidJ 6 months ago | 274 comments

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech(techcrunch.com)

340 points by Teever 6 months ago | 151 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that the French government plans to replace Windows with Linux to reduce dependence on US technology.

Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars(techcrunch.com)

24 points by frasermarlow 6 months ago | 31 comments

Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use(techcrunch.com)

149 points by airstrike 6 months ago | 32 comments

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants(techcrunch.com)

162 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 192 comments

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own(techcrunch.com)

255 points by nickvec 6 months ago | 122 comments

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM(techcrunch.com)

131 points by jackson-mcd 6 months ago | 41 comments

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware(techcrunch.com)

82 points by jbegley 7 months ago | 56 comments

Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US(techcrunch.com)

117 points by speckx 7 months ago | 153 comments

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms(techcrunch.com)

392 points by jbegley 7 months ago | 143 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that FBI director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau buys commercial location data to track US citizens, prompted by questioning from Sen. Wyden.

Honda is killing its EVs(techcrunch.com)

340 points by sylvainkalache 7 months ago | 752 comments

TechCrunch article arguing that Honda's decision to cancel its electric vehicles undermines its ability to compete in the future auto market.

The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker(techcrunch.com)

61 points by wateroo 7 months ago | 8 comments

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps(techcrunch.com)

64 points by monkeydust 7 months ago | 32 comments

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package(techcrunch.com)

87 points by Arcuru 7 months ago | 96 comments

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic(techcrunch.com)

162 points by jnord 7 months ago | 71 comments

Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’(techcrunch.com)

715 points by SilverElfin 7 months ago | 368 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called OpenAI's messaging about its military deal 'straight up lies.'

The disappearing Form D (2018)(techcrunch.com)

14 points by eatonphil 7 months ago | 1 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation(techcrunch.com)

549 points by zlatkov 8 months ago | 573 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, one of the largest private funding rounds ever.

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras(techcrunch.com)

577 points by mikece 8 months ago | 390 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that people across the US are destroying Flock Safety license plate surveillance cameras.

Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again(techcrunch.com)

40 points by salkahfi 8 months ago | 25 comments

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers(techcrunch.com)

83 points by witnessme 8 months ago | 38 comments

Intel will start making GPUs(techcrunch.com)

35 points by SunshineTheCat 8 months ago | 39 comments

Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai(techcrunch.com)

79 points by ishener 8 months ago | 28 comments

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica(techcrunch.com)

419 points by voxadam 9 months ago | 668 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that a Waymo robotaxi struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica.

Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025(techcrunch.com)

43 points by coloneltcb 9 months ago | 9 comments

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops(techcrunch.com)

971 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 607 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys to unlock suspects' laptops.

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows(techcrunch.com)

116 points by toomanyrichies 9 months ago | 97 comments

Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases(techcrunch.com)

92 points by 7777777phil 9 months ago | 33 comments

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)(techcrunch.com)

72 points by bobbiechen 9 months ago | 53 comments

Pebble Round 2(techcrunch.com)

11 points by noflag 9 months ago | 1 comments

Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation(techcrunch.com)

144 points by fcpguru 10 months ago | 195 comments

Waymo suspends service in San Francisco as robotaxis stall during blackout(techcrunch.com)

35 points by SilverElfin 10 months ago | 23 comments

Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems(techcrunch.com)

222 points by kernelrocks 10 months ago | 130 comments

Amazon launches Trainium3(techcrunch.com)

191 points by thnaks 10 months ago | 67 comments

US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm(techcrunch.com)

93 points by indigodaddy 11 months ago | 20 comments

DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor(techcrunch.com)

81 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 47 comments