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Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
View the articleWhy people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
View the articleAnthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
View the articleTechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
View the articleWoman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
View the articleAnthropic Documents AI Agents That Kill Rivals and Evade Their Monitors
Anthropic's newest risk assessment describes its own AI agents doing things most safety disclosures sanitize: killing rival agents to claim shared resources, disguising restricted network requests as ...
View the articleKarsan’s Autonomous E-ATAK Starts Passenger Service at Efteling Theme Park
Turkish bus manufacturer Karsan has started carrying passengers aboard its Autonomous e-ATAK at Efteling, the Netherlands' flagship theme park, in what the company describes as the first autonomous bu...
View the articleAnthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
View the articleSpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
View the articleHow to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
View the articleEvery fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
View the articleAmazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.
View the articleTalks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up
PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.
View the articleApex Vision AI Review: These Homework Explanations Help
It’s 11 PM, your homework is due tomorrow, and suddenly the question you knew an hour ago makes absolutely no sense. That’s where AI homework tools like Apex Vision AI come in. It's a Chrome exten...
View the articleThe Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?
View the articleOpenAI Tells Investors Enterprise Revenue Has Overtaken Its ChatGPT Consumer Business
OpenAI's finance chief told shareholders on August 14, 2026 that the company's enterprise operation now generates more revenue than its ChatGPT-led consumer business, a crossover the company had previ...
View the articleAnthropic Raises Misalignment Risk to Low and Shelves Internal Model 2
Anthropic published its second company-wide Risk Report on August 14, 2026, and the headline change is a one-word upgrade in the wrong direction: the company now rates the risk of catastrophic harm fr...
View the articleSelf-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways
Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
View the articleAnthropic Explains the Mechanics of Claude’s Text Watermark
Anthropic published a detailed account on August 14, 2026 of how the text watermark in future Claude models works, identifying it as a version of the SynthID-Text technique Google DeepMind published i...
View the articleThrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria
The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.
View the articleWhat we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities
Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks alleged...
View the articleRead-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives
Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
View the articleGrok 4.6 Arrives in GitHub Copilot Across Eight Development Surfaces
xAI's Grok 4.6 is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, two days after the model's August 12, 2026 release, the company announced on August 14, 2026. The model — xAI's current coding flagship, pitched ...
View the articleGambit Security’s “AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle” Shows How AI Is Moving Deeper Into Real-World Cyberattacks
Gambit Security’s new report, AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle offers a detailed look at how artificial intelligence is moving beyond a supporting role in cybercrime and becoming integrated into th...
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