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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
TechCrunch 28 Aug 2026
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscori...

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
TechCrunch 28 Aug 2026
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading...

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
TechCrunch 28 Aug 2026
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label
TechCrunch 28 Aug 2026
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pent...

Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
TechCrunch 28 Aug 2026
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 
TechCrunch 28 Aug 2026
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 ...

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining 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 Go...

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
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 so...

Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find inf...

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones wit...

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on th...

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-perso...

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect it...

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
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’
TechCrunch 27 Aug 2026
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 bu...

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
TechCrunch 26 Aug 2026
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.

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