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Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

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Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force

This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.

Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order

Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.

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Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies

Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.

Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America

Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what's next for it.

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock

The proposed legislation would extend to all automotica license plate readers.

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk…

It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump call…

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

With all the talk about how AI might one day ill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people, psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash test dummies" to solve tha…

Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery to become Skydance

The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.