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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 arriva a Google dopo un anno tra OpenAI e Thinking Machines
Il ricercatore di intelligenza artificiale ha ricoperto quattro posizioni senior in circa 18 mesi. Il suo nuovo incarico è nel team Gemini di Google, dove la sua esperienza nell'apprendimento per rinforzo sarà messa a frutto.
Il nuovo AI video di Google estende scene, salta a 4K e costa meno per provare
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash arriva nell'API Gemini con estensione di scene, controllo keyframe, draft economici a 360p e upscaling a 4K. Ecco i costi e chi effettivamente li sostiene.
Greg Brockman ora gestisce le operazioni quotidiane di OpenAI
Mentre Sam Altman corteggia gli investitori e pianifica una quotazione in borsa, il cofondatore di OpenAI Greg Brockman ha silenziosamente preso il controllo di quasi tutti i principali prodotti dell'azienda, da ChatGPT al suo business enterprise.
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 ha appena registrato 96 miliardi di dollari in un singolo trimestre. Pensa che 108 miliardi siano i prossimi.
Le vendite di chip per data center dell'azienda hanno più che raddoppiato in un anno, spinte dalla domanda incessante di hardware per l'IA. Gli acquirenti di GPU consumer stanno subendo la pressione.
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.