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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 competing, AI labs are doing.

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.

Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won't survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the entire economy.

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistant...

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breac...

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.