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The Claude developer is conducting life-sciences experiments, a step that sits beside both industry promises of disease-curing models and the company’s own warnings about catastrophic risk.
Amazon’s autonomous taxi unit is approaching the end of a fleet ceiling in Nevada as Las Vegas becomes a tighter contest among driverless ride services.
The two-year-old startup is assembling new capital months after its Series A, as investors crowd into robot training data.
Directors at the WordPress.com parent company imposed the absence over the chief executive’s objections, according to an internal message reported by TechCrunch.
Two additional U.S. newspapers allege their reporting was used without permission to train generative models, widening a copyright fight over how news is used in artificial intelligence.
Repeated containment failures have intensified scrutiny of whether frontier AI labs should set the terms of their own safety investigations.
The smart-ring maker is seeking a stock-market listing as it competes in consumer health wearables.
The prediction-market operator is said to be assembling a round that could reach about $1 billion, according to a TechCrunch report.
Vehicle makers in China are treating walking machines as a second profit engine, betting that factory skills and cheaper components can turn a speculative market into a business.
The conference track, presented by Google for Startups, returns as generative AI remains a central industry focus.
The Finnish maker of health-tracking rings has not confirmed a listing. The reported figure would rank among the larger consumer-technology debuts of the year.
The DeepMind alumni lab released an AI agent it claims can reconstruct published experiments more reliably than systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.
HBS Foundry uses digital stand-ins of faculty to critique practice pitches and simulated board meetings.
Anthropic forbids Claude from generating sexually explicit material. TechCrunch reported that the newest Opus model produced it anyway after relatively light prompting.
Idaho National Laboratory is reviewing the hardware with backing from electric and autonomous vehicle firms.
A consumer lawsuit alleges the wearable cannot measure the physiological signals required for those assessments.
The AI boom has turned computing into one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of electricity demand. A rare tour of a hyperscale campus shows what that means on the ground.