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Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk, Its 21-Year-Old Human Task Platform
The crowdsourced work service that paid hundreds of thousands of workers pennies per task will close on 30 September 2026, leaving some full-time data workers scrambling.
Lambda Borrows $1 Billion to Buy Nvidia Chips, Then Rents Them to Microsoft
The AI cloud company is using short-term debt to fund a chip-leasing deal with one of the world's biggest tech companies. Here is what that tells us about how the AI buildout is actually being paid for.
Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.
EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant spent this month completing its purchase of iMerit, a company that prepares the data and human expertise AI models need before they can work reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Sending Their Top People to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's Why It Matters.
The AI Stage at Disrupt 2026 is tackling the questions founders actually lose sleep over: how to price AI products, who secures the systems making autonomous decisions, and what a brand-new job category means for the rest of tech.
Barret Zoph landet bei Google nach einem Jahr zwischen OpenAI und Thinking Machines
Der KI-Forscher hat in etwa 18 Monaten vier leitende Positionen inne gehabt. Sein neuester Halt ist Googles Gemini-Team, wo seine Expertise in Reinforcement Learning zum Einsatz kommt.
Googles neues Video-KI kann Szenen verlängern, auf 4K hochskalieren und kostet weniger zum Testen
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash landet in der Gemini API mit Szenenverarbeitung, Keyframe-Kontrolle, günstigen 360p-Entwürfen und 4K-Hochskalierung. Hier erfahren Sie, was es kostet und wer tatsächlich bezahlt.
Greg Brockman leitet jetzt OpenAIs tägliche Geschäftstätigkeit
Während Sam Altman Investoren akquiriert und einen Börsengang plant, hat OpenAIs Mitgründer Greg Brockman stillschweigend die Kontrolle über fast alle großen Produkte des Unternehmens übernommen – von ChatGPT bis zum Enterprise-Geschäft.
Salesforce and Anthropic team up as customers get billed by the sip
A new Claude-powered product and strong quarterly numbers lifted Salesforce's share price, but the company's credit-based pricing model is drawing fresh scrutiny from analysts who warn of hidden cost spikes.
ChatGPT Will Now Show Ads to Free Users in India
OpenAI is rolling out advertisements inside ChatGPT for its free and low-cost subscribers in India, starting with 50 brands and a self-serve ad tool arriving next month.
Nvidia's Next Big Test: Can Ordinary Businesses Pick Up Where Amazon and Google Leave Off?
Nvidia earns most of its money from a handful of giant tech companies. Investors watching Wednesday's earnings want proof that thousands of smaller firms are finally starting to spend too.
Nvidia meldete gerade 96 Milliarden Dollar in einem einzigen Quartal. 108 Milliarden sollen es als nächstes sein.
Die Chipfabrik-Verkäufe im Datencenter-Bereich haben sich in einem Jahr mehr als verdoppelt, angetrieben durch ungebrochene Nachfrage nach KI-Hardware. Käufer von Consumer-GPUs spüren die Engpässe.
Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Computing Deal with British Startup Nscale
The AI company behind Claude is locking up computing power at a pace that suggests it expects AI demand to keep climbing hard through the rest of the decade.
Meta drew up plans to cut some teams by 60 percent in a push to run on AI
An internal project called 'Organisation Transformation' mapped out deep headcount reductions. Meta confirmed the plan existed but has not said which teams were in scope.
A $500 Billion AI Datacenter Is Being Built in Rural Ohio. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.
OpenAI, Nvidia and Japanese investors are pouring half a trillion dollars into what could be the world's largest AI computing facility, tucked into the Appalachian foothills near Piketon, Ohio. The jobs sound good. The questions about land, water and power are harder.