OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia

OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports | AI News

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says....

Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells) | AI News

Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples....

The eternal complement | AI News

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progres...

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web | AI News

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B....

Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI | AI News

Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the...

How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out | AI News

Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers....

Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system | AI News

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system....

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents. | AI News

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will in...

Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses | AI News

The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditio...

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites | AI News

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-o...

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet | AI News

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work. ...

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation | AI News

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member....

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents | AI News

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence. ...

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B | AI News

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price....

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | AI News

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content....

The ugly economics of consumer AI | AI News

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough....

Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign | AI News

Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation....

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission | AI News

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his ...

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food | AI News

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub. ...

Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page | AI News

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."...

Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick | AI News

Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for...

Helping small businesses put AI to work | AI News

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small ...

Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure...

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents | AI News

Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal....

3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, investors, ope...

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features | AI News

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations....

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer | AI News

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Fa...

OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | AI News

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut....

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch | AI News

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry. ...

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch | AI News

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the ...

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model | AI News

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered ...

OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | AI News

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut....

Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents | AI News

OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned....

DevDay 2026 Recap | AI News

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders....

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol | AI News

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output toke...

Introducing dots | AI News

Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control whi...

AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience | AI News

Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks...

OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar | AI News

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal o...

OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations | AI News

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plugins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations....

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less | AI News

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, docu...

OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices | AI News

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focus...

OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite | AI News

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies. ...

Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out | AI News

America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinat...

Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related | AI News

Instinct founder said that the platform is growing 10% day-by-day...

With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox | AI News

The former Yahoo CEO is introducing a new AI personal assistant based entirely on your photos....

Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses | AI News

The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers. ...

OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | AI News

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events....

Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market | AI News

The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million....

Making AI an asset, not an expense | AI News

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cl...

Towards safety cases for frontier AI training | AI News

Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incide...

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US