On Meta's quarterly earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg predicted that within five years billions of people will have personal AI agents working on their behalf across finance, health, relationships, and household management,...
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng stepped down citing health issues from sustained startup stress, and OpenAI confirmed she is rejoining the company where she previously led AI Safety Research. At OpenAI she will...
PJM Interconnection, the largest US electrical grid operator, announced it will cut power to data centers of 50 megawatts or larger during shortages beginning June 2027, after a capacity auction fell short. The move foll...
Recursive Superintelligence, a startup that emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, announced a multi-year $400 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company focuses on open-ended self-impr...
A Similarweb report finds Google's AI Overviews grew from appearing in 15% of searches to 43% over the past year, while AI Mode visits rose from 126 million in June 2025 to 279 million by May 2026. The shift is turning G...
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), Ilya Sutskever's stealth AI lab, announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia that includes a multibillion-dollar investment and access to the Vera Rubin GPU platform, expected to increase...
Encord, a data-tooling company, is manufacturing physical training data for robotics firms at a San Leandro warehouse, using egocentric camera headsets, leader-follower robotic arm rigs, and dense task annotation. In a t...
TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed the reaction to Moonshot AI's Kimi model, which reignited debates over US competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. The hosts argued the panic echoes the earlier DeepSeek episo...
A downed power line near Washington, DC triggered roughly 3.1 gigawatts of Northern Virginia data centers to switch to backup power within 30 seconds, destabilizing the PJM grid for over 11 minutes and causing regional v...
AI chip startup Etched closed a $300 million Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3 billion valuation, doubling its valuation in roughly seven months. The company has manufactured its custom inference chips via TSMC, booked...
