TechCrunch
PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery
PSI, a startup lab, used an early AI model to solve an 18-year-old quantum computing problem and is now building a business around AI-driven scientific discovery.
Gemini
Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices
Google expands Gemini Intelligence to more devices like Motorola Signature 27 and Pixel 10, adding new features such as Create My Widget and Device Assistance.
TechCrunch
OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google
OpenAI launched a beta Business Hub letting companies create verified profiles and business agents within ChatGPT, mirroring Google's search features.
The Verge
ChatGPT is getting verified AI ‘Business Agents’
OpenAI is launching verified AI Business Agents in ChatGPT for US e-commerce and service businesses, letting users chat with brand agents.
The Verge
The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk
IGF jurors vowed not to vote for games using generative AI, prompting Big Walk developer House House to admit sparse AI use.
The Verge
Anthropic has its own AI-powered office suite now
Anthropic launched Claude Meetings, Sheets, and Whiteboards, an AI office suite for non-technical knowledge workers, now in beta.
TechCrunch
Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks
Anthropic launched Claude Meetings, an AI assistant that joins video calls to draft plans, track timelines, and create meeting notes in real time.
TechCrunch
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline
A timeline of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's admitted affair with Alice Huang, suspected of being a Chinese spy, and the resulting national security investigation.
The Verge
eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents
eBay has blocked third-party AI agents like Meta's Muse from browsing its marketplace, joining other retailers in restricting agent access.
Gemini
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model for cybersecurity, agentic coding, and scientific reasoning, available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers.
Gemini
Introducing the Multimodal Knowledge Agent benchmark
Google DeepMind and Artificial Analysis launch the MKA benchmark to evaluate agents on visually complex knowledge work tasks.
The Verge
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, its most powerful AI model, with a new agent 'swarm' feature on its Antigravity platform.
TechCrunch
Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips
Google unveiled two new TPU chips, TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, expanding its AI hardware for confidential inference and large workloads.
TechCrunch
Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS
Meta has launched its Muse AI agent on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS, expanding its consumer AI ecosystem.
Interesting Engineering
Claude Fable 5.2 builds a working operating system with 1,000 agents in eight days
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 coordinated over 1,000 AI agents to build a bootable operating system in eight days, alongside advances in software, robotics, and security.
The Verge
Anthropic targets $1.4 trillion IPO
Anthropic confirmed an IPO priced at $70 to $78 per share, targeting a valuation near $1.4 trillion.
TechCrunch
Adobe adds more AI to its products and launches an MCP
Adobe announced new AI features across its Creative Cloud apps and launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) to integrate with chatbots.
TechCrunch
Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion
Anthropic plans an IPO with shares priced $70-$78, aiming for a $1.404 trillion valuation and raising up to $64.35 billion.
TechCrunch
Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter
Spotify updates its AI DJ with customizable voices and personalities, plus an option to reduce commentary between songs.
TechCrunch
After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era
Kirt McMaster, co-founder of Cyanogen, now targets Microsoft's Windows with Kora Systems, an AI-focused Linux-based operating system.
Gemini
We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.
Google and Adobe are expanding their partnership to integrate Adobe’s creative and productivity tools into Google apps and bring Google’s AI models into Adobe’s apps.
The Verge
Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere are making it easier to remove things
Adobe adds AI-powered removal tools and new creative features to Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, and Firefly.
The Verge
Adobe is going all in on agentic AI
Adobe announced new agentic AI features at its Max conference, including third-party AI agent integrations, always-on background agents, and Firefly AI Assistant upgrades.
TechCrunch
Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot
Ring launches Ring Robotics, debuting a home security drone and an enterprise security robot with autonomous AI capabilities.
The Verge
Hands-on with Ring’s new AI drone camera for your home
Ring is launching an indoor flying camera drone that patrols homes and responds to sensor triggers.
TechCrunch
Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns
Hugging Face's Irene Solaiman warns that cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force them to restrict access, undermining their openness.
Tom's Hardware
Linus Torvalds says that AI fixes drove most of the progress in latest Linux kernel — BPF saw more AI-written fixes than bug reports, possibly indicating a tidal shift for open-source maintainers tired of flood of junk reports
Linus Torvalds says AI fixes drove much of the progress in the latest Linux kernel, with the BPF portion seeing more AI-written fixes than bug reports.
Anthropic
Anthropic launches roadshow for proposed initial public offering
Anthropic has launched a roadshow for its proposed IPO of 825 million Class A shares priced at $70 to $78 each.
OpenAI
Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT
OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, letting businesses claim profiles, view engagement insights, and deploy Business Agents.
OpenAI
Work at the Frontier: AI’s effect on freelance work
OpenAI and Upwork research shows AI is reshaping freelance demand, broadening project scope and combining tasks in new ways.
TechCrunch
Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages
Otter.ai launched multilingual transcription that follows conversations as speakers switch languages, and expanded support to 31 languages.
LinkedIn
TL;DR: We just launched Muse Ember – our most efficient model, and the cheapest way to run frontier-quality agents at scale.
Meta launched Muse Ember, its most efficient model, offering frontier-quality AI agents at the lowest price.
TechCrunch
Anthropic reportedly plans to move forward with IPO plans
Anthropic is reportedly proceeding with its IPO, planning to set a valuation range this week and begin trading next week.
The Verge
David Ellison says AI could be the ‘biggest creative unlock in modern history’
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said AI could surpass CGI’s impact on filmmaking while insisting it will never replace artists.
OpenAI
Cogent and OpenAI build cyber defense factories for enterprises
Cogent and OpenAI have partnered to create AI-driven Cyber Defense Factories that autonomously investigate and remediate enterprise security vulnerabilities.
The Verge
What could China get from Jensen Huang?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy raises questions about espionage and AI chip export policy influence.
The Verge
Here’s what Trump said he knew about Jensen Huang
Trump said he first heard recently about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy and believes Huang had no idea.
TechCrunch
Jensen Huang reportedly engaged a PR firm with a history of handling high-profile sex scandals a year ago
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly hired crisis PR firm Heller Inc., known for handling sex scandals, a year before admitting an extramarital affair.
The Verge
Everything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia investigates CEO Jensen Huang's affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy, amid national security concerns.
TechCrunch
A short seller flagged Nvidia CEO’s ties to a suspected Chinese spy six months before the scandal
Culper Research warned six months ago about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's close ties to Alice Huang, now suspected as a Chinese spy.
TechCrunch
The race is on to sue Nvidia
Nvidia faces imminent securities lawsuits after its board disclosed an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
The Verge
The global pledge to use AI for climate good is a cruel joke
A voluntary UN pledge on AI and climate lacks binding obligations and US participation, making it an unsatisfying placebo.
TechCrunch
Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang withdrew from the ElevenLabs Summit and other events after admitting an affair and facing an investigation into a possible Chinese spy relationship.
Anthropic
Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, faster and cheaper models with major gains in coding, science, and cybersecurity.
TechCrunch
Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns
Anthropic launched Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 with improved coding, reasoning, and vision, cheaper and faster Fable pricing, and new safety evaluations.
The Verge
Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features
Apple now sells $50 Intelligence Usage Packs to extend access to cloud-based AI features, starting with Logic Pro.
The Verge
Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, claiming major gains in coding, reasoning, vision, and speed.
TechCrunch
Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy raises questions about his lobbying for China chip sales.
The Verge
Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts
Instagram launches Effect Builder, an AI tool that generates custom filters for Stories from text prompts and reference images.
TechCrunch
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
Meta releases Muse Ember, a lightweight AI model for agent execution, emphasizing low cost and high accuracy at scale.
The Verge
The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's alleged affair with a former TV reporter linked to Chinese intelligence raises concerns about AI security and Nvidia's influence.
TechCrunch
Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines
Anthropic is buying $3.4 billion worth of natural gas turbines to secure power for AI compute amid grid constraints.
Hotminute
I tried the AI slop detector you can add to your web browser
The author tested Pangram, a Chrome extension that detects AI-generated text and images on social media feeds and web pages.
The i Paper
The suspected Chinese spy whose affair with Nvidia boss let her hide in plain sight
Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy, used her affair with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to operate openly among America's AI elite.
TechCrunch
Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process
Medium launched TK, an AI-powered writing app that integrates an assistant into the editor to help turn ideas into written words.
NBC News
Nvidia stock falls after company opens probe into CEO’s relationship with Chinese spy
Nvidia's stock fell 4% after the company launched an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence says is a Chinese spy.
The Verge
Trump’s 60 Minutes interview touched on AI safety, threat to arrest an AI exec
Trump said AI risk is manageable and claimed he threatened an AI executive with jail to change behavior.
The Verge
Disney and Adobe are building generative AI tools together
Disney and Adobe announced a multiyear partnership to develop artist-led generative AI models for Disney's production pipeline, including theme parks, cruise line, and ESPN.
The Verge
Hold up — I had a great time talking to the RIAA guy
Nilay Patel interviews RIAA CEO Mitch Glazier about AI, copyright, deepfakes, and the music industry's fight to protect human artistry.
The Verge
Jonathan Kanter is using AI to take on Big Tech
Former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter launched FluxCap, an AI legal research tool to help enforcers take on Big Tech.
TechCrunch
Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe coding apps amid a changing internet
Automattic launched Spacefast, a platform with infrastructure like databases, authentication, and analytics for deploying vibe-coded websites and apps.
OpenAI
How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI
Amplitude's AI agent Wave, powered by OpenAI models, helps teams ship product improvements in 1–2 days instead of a month.
OpenAI
How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI
Amplitude's Wave, powered by OpenAI models, cuts product improvement shipping time from a month to 1-2 days.
TechCrunch
Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s “about a 50-50”
Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says Jensen Huang’s career is salvageable but puts his odds of surviving an independent investigation at about 50-50.
RuntimeWire
RuntimeWire discovers Midjourney patent for an ultrasound collar that reads speech from your neck
RuntimeWire found a Midjourney patent for an ultrasound collar that reads neck vibrations to synthesize speech for AI models.
TechCrunch
Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang's 'scheme' with Trump
TechCrunch
Muse can now place calls to U.S. businesses — if you pay
The Verge
Google's new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions
TechCrunch
Nebius tests the neocloud playbook with $40 billion in planned spending
TechCrunch
Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports
MIT Technology Review
Nvidia privately confirmed it could track chips to fight smuggling, even as industry publicly questioned feasibility
The Verge
No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site
TechCrunch
Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions
TechCrunch
Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands
TechCrunch
Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question
