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TechCrunch ·On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
TechCrunch ·Oren Etzioni and MIT professor Max Tegmark debated AI risks in a New York Post video, splitting over whether this summer's OpenAI sandbox breakout was rogue AI or human error. They agreed that corporate self-regulation won't work and that…
GeekWire ·Voice AI often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break.
TechCrunch ·In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
TechCrunch ·Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
TechCrunch ·We recorded this week’s GeekWire Podcast at Front Burner Studios near Pike Place Market with co-owner Seth Paul, CEO of security startup Qinsay. We discussed Shield AI’s AI-piloted fighter jets, the White House crackdown on Microsoft, and…
GeekWire ·TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 in San Francisco. Over 300 startups will show what they’ve built to 10,000 tech leaders. Plus, 250+ speakers are ready to share insights across 200+ sessions. Register before doors open to…
TechCrunch ·We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
TechCrunch ·The incidents involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL-shortening services to smuggle information past…
TechCrunch ·Corporate influence in politics and its ripple effects on issues ranging from data centers to healthcare, was the focus of a town hall Friday in downtown Lansing hosted by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who was joined by…
Michigan Advance ·What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
TechCrunch ·The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned. The post OPM launches beta AI chatbot for federal workforce data…
FedScoop ·Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
TechCrunch ·As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large funding rounds, which featured AI infrastructure providers, a foundational model developer, a content…
Crunchbase News ·Georgia’s latest digital government initiative aims to reduce call center demand and help residents more easily find official information.
StateScoop ·Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition…
TechCrunch ·Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition…
TechCrunch ·Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to…
NVIDIA ·Wright State University marked Wright Brothers Day with an event focused on innovation, research, and artificial intelligence. The university’s annual celebration took place today in its Student Union Atrium. Faculty, students, and local…
Wright State University ·The ballot measure seeks to prohibit the construction of any data center over 25 megawatts within city limits.
WVXU ·Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders.
Crunchbase News ·AI companies can build durable moats by embedding their products in essential customer workflows, explains tech adviser Itay Sagie, who shares why founders should prioritize measurable customer dependence, while investors and acquirers…
Crunchbase News ·Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience.…
MIT Technology Review ·A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers. Automakers and construction contractors say they need more access to…
Ohio Capital Journal ·Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It…
MIT Technology Review ·Album partners Sid Krommenhoek, Cash Allred, and Ty Boswell discuss adapting early-stage venture capital to AI disruption, capital-intensive markets, and reindustrialization while maintaining an unwavering, founder-first investment…
TechBuzz News ·Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, among others, are investing resources into the collaborative hub that will work toward identified challenges. The post Tech sector pours $2.4B in AI tools, compute credits for Genesis Mission…
FedScoop ·U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., called for federal artificial intelligence regulations and stronger healthcare funding Wednesday as he and Republican challenger Bert Mizusawa outlined competing approaches to protecting Virginians with…
Virginia Mercury ·Great companies take more than a great idea. Through Rev1 Insider Insights, we introduce Rev1 team members, advisors and partners who work alongside entrepreneurs as they validate markets, solve early challenges, make connections and turn…
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