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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 chega ao Google após um ano entre OpenAI e Thinking Machines
O investigador de IA exerceu quatro cargos seniores em aproximadamente 18 meses. O seu último destino é a equipa Gemini do Google, onde a sua experiência em aprendizagem por reforço será aplicada.
A nova IA de vídeo do Google consegue estender cenas, saltar para 4K e custa menos para testar
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash chega à API do Gemini com extensão de cenas, controlo de fotogramas-chave, rascunhos baratos em 360p e ampliação para 4K. Eis quanto custa e quem realmente paga.
Greg Brockman Está Agora a Comandar as Operações do Dia a Dia da OpenAI
Enquanto Sam Altman procura investidores e planeia uma entrada em bolsa, o co-fundador da OpenAI Greg Brockman assumiu silenciosamente o controlo de quase todos os principais produtos da empresa, desde o ChatGPT ao seu negócio empresarial.
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 Acaba de Registar $96 Mil Milhões num Único Trimestre. Pensa que $108 Mil Milhões Vêm a Seguir.
As vendas de centros de dados do fabricante de chips mais do que duplicaram num ano, impulsionadas pela procura implacável de equipamento de IA. Os consumidores de GPU estão a sentir a pressão.
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.