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What we're reading across AI and web3 — pulled straight from the source, no rewrite. Every card links out to the original outlet.
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion […]
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to […]
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3.5 Live Translate, and comes as we're still waiting for Google to release the Gemini 3.5 Pro model that it […]
Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet
Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI optimist, the Microsoft cofounder is now deeply pessimistic about what AI means for our collective future. Having been conspicuously quiet on AI issues recently, Gates is back with a nearly 6,000-word essay seeking […]
OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues
In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized" its "infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work."
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems […]
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama […]