OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia
OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across market…
Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them
Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1% of $89B in quarterly data centre revenue. Its $108B forecast…
Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face bet is reportedly worth $60M
Kevin Durant and his business partner invested $250,000 in Hugging Face’s early rounds and his payout is reported at around $60M if Nvidia’s $12.9B acquisition completes. Employee…
US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation
A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company’s public critici…
BYD charged one car 350 times in nine days
BYD says it drove a randomly selected Yangwang U7 for 30,000 kilometres over nine days with 350 ultra-fast charging stops, and the battery retained 98.7% of its capacity. Euro 7 w…
Rivian’s CFO is leaving after six years
Rivian’s chief financial officer Claire McDonough is leaving at the end of October after nearly six years, to take the same role at energy equipment maker GE Vernova. Volkswagen, …
AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10
A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — c…
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage 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.
What’s next for AI and how to get there
In 2026, the way we talk about AI is beginning to change. Two years ago, every boardroom argument circled the same question: which model do we bet on? Today, that question barely …
Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company
Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.
Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware
Anthropic has released the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a specification that stores how a piece of hardware works and how an AI may safely operate it, such as limi…
Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.
Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the dea…
YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases
The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popula…
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
AI agents are getting wallets: the Web3 infrastructure behind the machine economy
After years of promise, the machine economy is finally taking shape. AI agents are getting wallets and are now able to make decisions on behalf of owners. For investors, this is a…
Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension
Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for En…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority
More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leade…
ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack
The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecurity.
As AI reshapes business, the fractional CTO finds its moment
The AI race is producing an uncomfortable management gap. Deloitte’s 2026 research found only 21% of enterprises have mature governance for agentic AI, while 74% expect to use age…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward of…
Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear
Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on what was said, with pre-orders open in eight countries incl…
Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
Google teamed up with the Pokemon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana
SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second ha…