China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs

China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips as a strategic route around Washington’s tightening grip on conventio [...]

80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes

Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their home [...]

US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall

The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product of [...]

DOJ clears Paramount’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions

The US Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring any changes to the deal. The agency said the merger “is not likely to h [...]

CoreWeave joins the Nasdaq-100 just 15 months after its IPO, capping a wild ride from crypto mining to AI darling

CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure company that began life as a New Jersey cryptocurrency mining operation called Atlantic Crypto, has been selected for inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 Index. The add [...]

OpenAI is under investigation by 42 state attorneys general, days after filing for its IPO

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company wit [...]

Andrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.

Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to displace. In a TechCrunch interview, the forme [...]

OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk

OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities. So it is [...]

Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi

Google and its Antigravity team have built a prototype AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi 5. The Gemma Translator uses Gemma 4 E2B, the smallest model in Google’s open-weight [...]