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Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
October 9, 2026 · 37 minAmazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition…
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After selling to P&G and Lululemon, these founders are building for life beyond the screen
October 7, 2026 · 27 minTristan Walker and Brynn Putnam both built and sold major consumer companies. Now, they’re building products designed to bring people together. Today on Equity, we’re bringing you a conversation TechCrunch AI editor Russell Brandom had on…
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Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it
October 2, 2026 · 38 minThis week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed…
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A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body
September 30, 2026 · 32 minSpotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own…
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Meta’s Muse just stole the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
September 25, 2026 · 35 minWhen AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? It’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s…
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What’s next for cybersecurity, according to Index Ventures’ Shardul Shah
September 23, 2026 · 33 minAs concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups trying to build the next generation of…
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Automattic's 33-Hour coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
September 18, 2026 · 36 minA week after an Anthropic researcher's doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company's CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and…
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Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids
September 16, 2026 · 27 min“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid…
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An ex-Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
September 11, 2026 · 40 minAn Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company's own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather…
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ControlAI's Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it's an adversary’
September 9, 2026 · 43 minAI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it's inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI's Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable…
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Apple's Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
September 4, 2026 · 39 minIt's officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple's next iPhone event…
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We're ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory according to Pangram's CEO
September 2, 2026 · 26 minThe internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving…