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People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Learn how founders are choosing between building on open or closed AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.

Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips

Lola Vision Systems is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies

CNN’s boss will remain as Paramount and WBD merge into Skydance

CNN CEO Mark Thompson will remain at the head of the news network when Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition closes this week. Thompson wrote in a memo to employees that he belie…

Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

Sen. Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump one more time

Today, I’m talking with Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Sen. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and techn…

Linux containers in 500 lines of code

Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]

Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget

OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you gener…

Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI

Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won’t hurt them?

Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by those…

Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold

The Witness Was the Suspect: Why AI Audit Logs Can't Be Trusted

An AI agent does something it shouldn't. It leaks data, or wipes the wrong database, or makes a call...

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind