OpenAI Seeks Legal Clarity on AI Industry Slowdown
OpenAI is seeking congressional guidance on whether an AI industry slowdown would be legal, citing antitrust risks as a major barrier to collaboration.
OpenAI paused Pro subscriptions due to high demand for its Astra model, launched on September 3, as infrastructure strain grows.
Mark Wahlberg will join Bruce K. Lee at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss his transition into investing, with a focus on healthcare and wellness startups.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company expects a 70% revenue increase next year, citing its deep integration into the AI ecosystem and strong demand for its products.
Amazon announced the general availability of Marengo 3.0, an embedding model, for video and image search in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. The model enables natural language queries on media assets, such as finding penalty kicks in a soccer match.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers model caching to reduce inference cold starts from minutes to seconds, according to a blog post released on June 14, 2024.
Amazon SageMaker announced prefix-aware routing, reducing LLM latency by up to 77% in benchmarks on Llama 3.1 70B.
OpenAI released the Agents API on September 10, 2026, enabling developers to build cloud agents with the same infrastructure that powers Codex. The API supports subagent workflows and reduces latency by 4x.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warnings about self-improving AI as an existential threat appeared on CNN and Fox News, sparking public debate.
Nvidia and Palantir are deploying AI to manage supply chains, starting with Nvidia's million-part operation, which includes 1.3 million components in a single rack.
Meta announced Muse, an AI agent that can shop, write emails, and negotiate prices through WhatsApp, with a secure payment feature via Stripe's Link service.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 3.23 on ErdosBench, solving 106 math problems, including 43 fully, in its first major math-focused benchmark test.