OpenAI has lost more than a dozen executives since the start of 2026, and the latest departure — Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers — has put the leadership exodus back in the spotlight. Malone, who joined in March 2024, left last week, according to a report from TechCrunch. OpenAI attributed the move […]
Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is pivoting to a new market: making podcasts searchable and usable by AI agents. On Wednesday, the company launched Radar, a podcast search engine that transcribes and semantically indexes over 130,000 shows, allowing users to search for specific quotes, topics, and entity mentions. The product […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates waded deeper into AI policy on August 26, 2026, publishing a lengthy essay on his Gates Notes platform that endorses an AI slowdown while proposing two concrete interventions — a “robot tax” and the creation of “Human Reserved” job categories — to blunt the technology’s impact on the labor market. The […]
Z.ai, the Beijing-based lab behind the GLM family of open-weight models, confirmed on Monday that it is the creator of Ox Alpha — the mysterious model that appeared anonymously on OpenRouter over the weekend and quickly shot to the top of several AI leaderboards. The company told Bloomberg that Ox Alpha is the newest iteration […]
Bitcoin has entered the early stages of a new bull market after a 24% rally pushed key onchain and demand indicators into bullish territory, according to analytics firm CryptoQuant. The firm’s Bull Score jumped to 80 from 30 over the past week, hitting its highest level since October 2025, with eight of the index’s 10 […]
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it is unifying the memory systems of its Claude chat interface and its agentic work tool, Claude Cowork, effectively ending the tedious loop of re-explaining project context every time a user switches between the two. The update, which began rolling out this week, also introduces a new transparency layer that […]
Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica to establish a dedicated design research lab, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Lica’s co-founders, Priyaa Kalyanaraman and Purvanshi Mehta, will lead the new division, which will focus on advancing AI-driven visual communication tools. Lica initially launched in 2023 as an app that transformed screenshots and screen recordings […]
Crypto exchange Gemini and Apex Fintech Solutions have signed a non-binding letter of intent to make Gemini Titan the exclusive regulated venue for crypto event contracts offered by brokerage firms through Apex’s Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). The proposed arrangement would give participating brokerages access to Gemini for execution and clearing, creating a new distribution channel […]
San Francisco-based startup Instinct has generated significant buzz in the AI community this week with its powerful personal assistant, which is currently in private access. While early testers have praised the agent for its ability to handle complex tasks “like magic,” a growing chorus of security experts and early adopters is raising serious questions about […]
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work, released last month on the company’s $20-per-month subscription tier, is the company’s biggest bet yet that AI agents can move beyond coding and into the messy reality of white-collar work. The product, a modified version of OpenAI’s Codex tool, connects large language models to a user’s inbox, calendar, Slack, and SaaS platforms […]
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