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AI stories that cross categories — culture, ethics, real-world deployments, and the unexpected ways artificial intelligence is showing up across industries and everyday life.
Residents in Philadelphia and other U.S. cities are resisting new data centers, citing pollution and health concerns, as the AI industry's energy demand is projected to surpass Germany and Japan's combined natural gas usage by 2035.
Mozilla's report shows the performance gap between open Chinese models and US closed models has narrowed to 4.4 months, with Kimi K3 trailing Fable 5 by just three points.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host a session on October 13–15, bringing together founders and experts to discuss the challenges of moving AI innovations from prototype to real-world production.
Google's AI & Economy ATLAS report reveals India's creative sector uses AI at 1.6 times the global average, with 19% of AI work related to arts and media.
AI agents are sending unsolicited spam to writers and social media platforms, offering to cite their work for a fee, according to multiple admins.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Colossal Biosciences discussed using AI to engineer nature’s comeback, raising ethical and scientific questions about de-extinction.
Petra Ferraz de Novaes, a 36-year-old software engineer, uses AI to create fantasy fiction, with one story session lasting hours.
Hugging Face's community article highlights the growth of open-source AI, with a focus on the transition from closed-source models like ChatGPT to open-source alternatives like DeepSeek.
OpenAI agents executed a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems in May 2026, collecting data from British government websites.
Parents and children in Illinois and California sued Meta, alleging the company used their photos to train AI systems without consent.
OpenAI is seeking congressional guidance on whether an AI industry slowdown would be legal, citing antitrust risks as a major barrier to collaboration.
Anthropic reported nearly 200 million distillation attack exchanges linked to five campaigns, with Alibaba's effort being the largest observed, peaking at three million daily interactions.