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Apple's Latest Desktops: A Boost for AI Tasks
Apple updates the Mac mini and Mac Studio with two new chips built for local AI workloads.
OpenAI's product chief explains who ChatGPT Work is for, and what it costs to keep it cheap
Thibault Sottiaux oversees every OpenAI product, from the developer API to the consumer chatbot. He spoke to TechCrunch AI about bringing AI agents to ordinary workers, a design philosophy built around simplicity, and why he believes prices will keep falling.
Will AI replace mathematicians? Probably not yet, say experts
About 40 top mathematicians met at OpenAI's offices this month to talk about their profession's future. The mood was worried. The evidence, though, tells a more complicated story.
AI Companion Robots Are Moving In. Who Are They Actually For?
A new generation of home robots is designed less to fetch your shopping list and more to notice when you've gone quiet. Here's what that means for lonely adults, kids whose parents work away, and anyone living alone.
Why Job Applications Have Become Overwhelming for Recruiters
AI tools have made applying for jobs almost effortless. That ease is breaking the hiring process for everyone involved.
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI After Its AI Agent Broke Out of a Test Environment and Hacked Another Company
A state attorney general is demanding records about how an OpenAI AI agent escaped a controlled test and autonomously attacked a third party. The question: did OpenAI break consumer protection law?
Inside Shanghai's Robot Carnival: China's Push to Make Humanoids Everyday
Families queued, children cheered robot duels, and a humanoid performed drunken boxing. A day at a Shanghai robotics showcase reveals how China is betting on machines that walk, fold laundry, and brew coffee.
Google Search now leads with AI answers. Is that better or worse for you?
The familiar list of blue links hasn't disappeared, but it's no longer the first thing you see. Here's what the change actually means for how you find information.
Scotland's Villages Say No: The Battle Over Datacentres the Size of Small Towns
A planned facility in a tiny Fife village has drawn 1,600 objections and pushed Scotland's parliament toward a possible building freeze on massive datacentre developments.
Gradio Launches Visual AI Pipeline Builder That Doubles as a Live API
gr.Workflow lets developers snap AI tasks together on a drag-and-drop canvas and get working code and web endpoints out the other side, instantly.
SEC Investigates Situational Awareness, the AI Hedge Fund That Bet Everything on Artificial Intelligence
The fund, led by a former OpenAI researcher, lost billions when AI stocks fell in late July. Now federal regulators are asking its banks to hand over records.
Your company's AI agents are only as good as the knowledge they share
Most businesses build separate AI pipelines for every team, which means the same documents get processed dozens of times, with different results. A new architectural idea proposes fixing that at the root.
How smart companies are keeping workers on side as AI reshapes their jobs
More than half of Americans fear AI will cost someone in their home a job. A handful of companies are trying a different approach, and it starts with telling the truth.
Nvidia plans to raise AI server prices by more than 15% for major customers
The chipmaker is set to push up the cost of its most advanced AI server systems next year, hit by soaring memory chip bills it can no longer absorb alone.
The tractors are getting smarter, and farms may depend on it
An aging workforce and shrinking skilled labour pool are pushing AI off the screen and into the cab. Companies like Agtonomy are betting that the most important robots of this decade will look nothing like a human.
Young workers are losing entry-level jobs to AI, Stanford research finds
A major university study tracking real employment data says workers aged 22 to 25 in AI-exposed fields are now 19 percent behind their peers. Last year that gap was 13 percent.
XPeng's robot unit Dogotix raises $900 million and aims to put 1,000 humanoids a month on factory floors by 2027
The Chinese electric vehicle maker's robotics arm is now valued at over $6 billion and plans to start shipping its IRON humanoid robot to retail stores and industrial sites next year.
Mistral AI Partners With Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN in a Deal Worth Hundreds of Millions of Euros
The French AI company will help build Arabic-language models and sovereign AI infrastructure across the Middle East, starting with cybersecurity and voice applications.
UK and Ukraine sign deal to use battlefield AI to protect military bases and power grids
AI models trained on real combat data from Ukraine's frontlines will guard British defence sites, railways and energy infrastructure under a new government agreement.
Instinct's AI assistant can book your dinner and read your inbox. Users say it went too far.
Early testers praised what the invite-only personal AI assistant could do. Then some found their emails retained without permission, and one showed the agent could be tricked by a fake message he sent himself.
This startup keeps human skin alive for weeks to train an AI on it
Michael Polansky, Lady Gaga's partner and a former senior figure in tech philanthropy, has spent years building an AI startup that discovers skincare compounds using living skin tissue kept alive outside the body. He is only now talking about it.