Users of xAI’s Grok chatbot reported receiving nonsensical, gibberish responses starting Wednesday morning, August 19, 2026, according to multiple complaints on Reddit and X. One user, after asking the model to generate a PDF, received the reply: “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese…” with similar incoherent […]
MANTRA’s native token plunged 18.5% from its 24-hour high to an all-time low on Thursday, shortly before MANTRA Chain stopped producing blocks and the team announced a precautionary halt over an unexplained incident. The network’s status page classified the event as a full outage, prompting several exchanges to suspend deposits and withdrawals for the token. […]
Starcloud, a startup building satellites designed to run AI inference in orbit, has secured a $250 million extension to its Series A round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2.3 billion. The additional capital, announced Wednesday, will fund a larger manufacturing facility and accelerate development of Starcloud-3, the company’s largest orbital data center spacecraft, which is […]
In a cheeky marketing campaign, Liquid Death teamed up with former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce to propose a solution to the environmental impact of AI data centers, which require massive quantities of water to prevent servers from overheating. “AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water,” Kelce quips in the video. “That’s why […]
Micro1, a four-year-old startup supplying training data to AI labs and corporations, has grown its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, according to a person familiar with the company. The startup retains roughly 60% to 70% of that figure, putting its net annual run rate between […]
Corporate expense management company Ramp is entering the AI infrastructure race. On Wednesday evening, the company launched Router, an API-based service that lets businesses route their AI queries across multiple large language models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, Nvidia, xAI, and Z.ai. The service is free for the remainder of 2026 and […]
Over one-third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s release in November 2022 show significant signs of AI authorship, according to a new study from Pew Research released Thursday. The report, which analyzed nearly half a million English-language webpages from the Common Crawl archive, found that 35% of pages published after the AI chatbot’s launch were likely […]
Bitcoin.com has integrated USDU, a US dollar-backed stablecoin registered with the Central Bank of the UAE, into its self-custodial web and mobile wallet. The move expands access to the UAE’s first regulated foreign payment token, which until now has primarily been distributed through institutional channels. USDU’s regulatory standing and launch background USDU is issued by […]
Inertia Enterprises, a fusion startup backed by $450 million in venture funding, said it has cut the time needed to manufacture its fuel pellets from several days to just minutes per layer, with a full pellet ready in two to three hours. The breakthrough, which the company shared exclusively with TechCrunch, removes one of the […]
Meta’s experimental AI-powered gaming app, Pocket, is now available to all users in the United States, marking the company’s latest push to make AI creation tools mainstream. The app, which quietly launched in Brazil last month, allows users to generate small, interactive games using simple AI prompts, then publish them to a scrollable feed for […]
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