OpenAI Safety Team Shaken by Four Departures
OpenAI has fired three researchers and lost a fourth, allegedly for leaking confidential data to external AI safety groups, per the Wall Street Journal.
Nvidia increased the Shield TV Pro price by $100 to $299.99, citing rising memory and storage costs driven by AI demand.
The US has arrested Greg Lui, CEO of Earthmade Computer, accused of smuggling over $300 million in Nvidia chips to China through false paperwork.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host over 10,000 tech leaders in San Francisco from October 13-15, with exhibit bookings closing tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Pope Leo XIV has voiced strong opposition to AI-generated art, citing a spiritual and ontological divide between human and machine-created works, according to a recent post on X.
Circuit Breaker Labs, a 2026 Startup Battlefield finalist, is developing AI safety tools to prevent harmful interactions, following several lawsuits linking AI chatbots to suicides.
Blackstone's Jas Khaira discusses the capital requirements for AI companies, citing a $600 million investment in Neysa as a key example.
The White House rebranded AI as 'super intelligence' in an executive order, signaling a shift in how the technology is framed and regulated.
The White House rebranded AI as 'super intelligence,' with President Trump calling the new label 'morally binding,' as tech leaders signed an AI safety pledge.
Apple is enhancing macOS Full Disk Access controls after reports of AI agents accessing private data, following a Wired report on ChatGPT's Mac app flaw.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now enables Claude Desktop to access real-time web data through secure, managed search capabilities. The update is available in three AWS regions and uses AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication.
Amazon announced the Adjudicated Query pattern, enabling compliance teams to verify lease compliance across 50,000 leases with a deterministic rules engine.