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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improvin…
Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor…
Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech
Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across scie…
Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, i…
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building b…
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capaci…
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which h…
Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor…
Powering AI is an architecture problem
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—kn…
This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says…
Can the US battery market untangle from China?
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the gri…
God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journ…
Healthcare AI’s next test is integration
The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical f…
The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor…