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Amazon Engineers Move to Cap AI Spending After Cost Overruns
Amazon's engineering teams have found cases where moving work from hand-written code to AI models blew through project budgets, including $1.8 million spent running Anthropic's Claude Sonnet on a job ...
View the articleFive Underappreciated Truths About the AI Economy: Learnings From DVC’s State Of AI Report
At DVC, we've spent a decade watching the AI market up close — backing companies and working closely with the portco founders. This year, we decided to share the framework we’ve built with the wor...
View the articleAutonomous Agents Are IT’s Next Painkiller
In the AI gold rush, I see two distinct categories of solutions: vitamins and painkillers. A vitamin is something that helps you write better copy or polish a slide deck, which only boosts your produc...
View the articleCheck Point Moves AI Prompt Inspection Into Its Firewalls
Check Point announced the AI Network Firewall on July 30, 2026, putting prompt- and agent-level inspection inside its firewall software release R82.20 and running it from the gateways customers alread...
View the articleOpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
View the articleLinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
View the articleAI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
View the articleI Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.
View the articleMicrosoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
View the articleMark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
View the articleMicrosoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and compe...
View the articleZuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.
View the articleMeta Bets Its Next Revenue Line on Personal AI Agents
Meta put consumer AI agents at the center of its revenue plan on July 29, 2026, when it reported second-quarter results and then used much of the earnings call to lay out a consumer agent business tha...
View the articleDiscover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
View the articleThinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
View the articleWinamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer
Winamp is preparing to relaunch with a Deezer-powered premium music service, betting its nostalgic brand and a new all-in-one music player can stand out in today’s crowded streaming market.
View the articleThe Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor
Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
View the articleClaude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
View the articleIt’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models
I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.
View the articleSorry, haters. Ferrari’s first EV is doing just fine
To the horror of commenters across the internet, the Ferrari Luce appears to be a sales success.
View the articleWaymo robotaxis are starting to return to freeways
Waymo robotaxis are now using freeways in Phoenix with more cities to follow in the coming days.
View the articleUS government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security
The ban largely affects U.S. imports from China, which currently dominates the global market for making humanoid robots and solar inverters.
View the articleGoogle brings its age-assurance technology to Android developers worldwide
Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API, giving Android developers a privacy-preserving way to tailor experiences based on users’ age ranges.
View the articleLumo AI Review: This AI Chatbot Keeps My Data Private
Have you ever typed something private into an AI chatbot and wondered where that information actually goes? Maybe it was a work document, a personal idea, or even a sensitive question you didn’t wan...
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