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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.
A three-person team breached OpenAI in under 72 hours using Claude Opus 5, spending under $3,000 on tokens, and pocketed a $6,500 bug bounty.
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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…
Altman, Musk and Hassabis backed the plan publicly and OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed multi-week…
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control? As three of the world’s largest AI labs enter voluntary standards-body talks this…
As three of the world's largest AI labs enter voluntary standards-body talks this September, a sharper…
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Google Labs is repositioning CC as a household coordinator that helps up to six family members share schedules, chores, and shopping.
US parents 18+ with a personal Google account can now share one AI agent for permission…
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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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Mazama Energy closed an oversubscribed $135M Series B led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, accelerating superhot rock geothermal development at Newberry,…
The capital funds Project Ceres toward 15 MWe per well by 2027 and certification of 10+…
Tech companies spent a decade putting their tools into classrooms — and now AI firms are following the same script, while some…
Districts including New York City and Los Angeles are restricting student AI use, and parents and…