Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.

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Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

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While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.

At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available across platforms, including the web.

Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this October.

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparent reversal.

This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.