Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.

Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

Apple debuts new musically-inclined AI assistant for creators

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.

Police Are Using AI to Pull over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Behavior

Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering

Genie 4 can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, and offers better physics and more humanlike characters.

Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data

Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.

Apple Creator Studio adds powerful new AI features and even more creative tools

Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative

General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

RSAF trials new tools at Exercise Wallaby that significantly speed up mission planning

Eviden launches ASTRA-LAS, a new AI-powered tac...

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

Researchers develop a new forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from your phone's memory

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

Aggregator declines 13 prospective brokers with new AI vetting tool

An Australian mortgage aggregator deployed an AI vetting tool that rejected 13 prospective brokers during evaluation. The tool automates broker qualification screening, determining which applicants meet the platform's criteria for onboarding.

Almost half of all comments on MPs' social media flagged as abusive

Australian MPs are experiencing high levels of online abuse on social media, with nearly 50% of comments flagged as abusive. Labor MPs are turning to AI tools to detect and manage these threats more effectively.

Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked

Anthropic's IPO filing reveals that over half of its enterprise customers spending $100,000+ annually now use both Claude Platform and first-party applications, demonstrating a cross-selling strategy similar to Amazon's approach to increase customer stickiness.

SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

SpaceX secures a $40 billion financing commitment for AI chips and data center equipment, marking the largest dedicated GPU financing deal on record. The binding agreement was disclosed in regulatory filings and represents a significant capital commitment for infrastructure expansion.

Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT

Hey HN, I'm Christian and this is a new OSS project I've been noodling on for the last couple of weeks. Hob is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that works on your files the way the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps do, except the model runs on your own computer. It uses…

‘Not a new AI center’: Seattle Children’s launches $10M pediatric innovation institute

Seattle Children's announced a $10M pediatric innovation institute focused on developing solutions for children's health challenges. The institute emphasizes practical application rather than positioning itself as a traditional AI research center.

Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Anthropic has filed for its initial public offering, disclosing rapidly growing revenue alongside substantial losses and significant enterprise customer adoption. The filing also reveals the company's governance structure, which prioritizes maintaining founder control and commitment to AI safety principles.