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Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes will debate the open-versus-closed AI choice shaping startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco.
For founders, the open-versus-closed call can shape cost, infrastructure, margins, differentiation and speed — so hearing it debated by Nvidia's own open-AI and VC leaders is a live signal.
Meta's Muse AI agent lands as a native Mac app on Sept 17, working across files, messages, calendar, notes and mail with user-managed permissions.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei proposed a three-part slowdown plan, backed by Altman, Musk and Hassabis. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and President Trump called it a hoax within days.
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On 18 September 2026 Disney named Karandeep Anand — former Character.AI CEO — its first-ever CTO, starting 2 October. Irony: Disney had…
Disney's AI and engineering roadmap now has a single owner with hands-on generative-AI experience at a…
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Mustafa Suleyman's essay 'A warning about model welfare' criticizes Anthropic's consciousness philosophy and warns of disastrous impact on humanity.
Industry may face pressure for stricter safety standards, FLOPS-threshold reporting, and independent verification of AI containment.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay calling for a coordinated AI slowdown has drawn praise, criticism, and political reactions from around the world…
The debate has divided tech leaders, governments, and researchers — some endorsing the slowdown as essential…
Clean-tech startup Fluxnium emerged from stealth with $7M in seed funding, claiming its polymer-fiber technology can extract enough dissolved uranium from seawater…
Could reshape the global nuclear fuel supply chain and reduce geopolitical dependence on a handful of…
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Philadelphia's Grays Ferry fights a proposed AI data center campus near a legacy refinery — part of a national environmental justice pushback.
If built, the data center would add major power and water strain to an already burdened…
A Geran drone destroyed a passenger train locomotive 2 km from Poland — 206 passengers had been evacuated 15 minutes earlier after…
No one was hurt because all 206 passengers were evacuated 15 minutes before impact, but the…