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AI / TechCrunch ·
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
AI / The Verge ·
Airbnb plans to roll out an AI agent in the first half of 2027 that will help users plan and book travel, the company said in its Q3 2026 earnings shareholder letter released today. "Today's AI agents are good at simple, routine tasks, like making a restaurant reservation or scheduling an…
AI / TechCrunch ·
OpenAI's newest cybersecurity model comes out as AI labs face scrutiny of their work to protect digital infrastructure.
AI / The Decoder ·
Google Deepmind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available. The video-generation model now creates clips up to 15 seconds long, can be edited step by step via conversation, and costs just $0.07 per second at 720p, 30 percent less than its predecessor. Users who draft in low resolution and…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Google will build its first Wyoming data centre, a $17B investment near Cheyenne. Most of its power will come from natural gas, including a 702 MW fuel cell plant from AEP and Bloom Energy, with carbon capture meant to store most emissions underground. Google will build its first data centre in…
Tech / Ars Technica ·
RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement was in trouble before voting began.
Tech / The Verge ·
The New York Times Company is in talks"exclusive negotations" to acquire Letterboxd, the social network for film lovers, for around $330 million, The New York Times reports. The Times Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and A24 were all recently rumored to be among those interested in buying…
Business / Fortune ·
Boeing also joined the list of dozens of companies refusing to participate in the venture cochaired by former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Tech / The Next Web ·
SoundCloud is opening a direct publishing route for music made with the ElevenMusic app, the AI music generation platform from ElevenLabs, allowing creators to send AI-generated tracks to the streaming platform without exporting and uploading them manually. Previously, users had to download their…
Tech / The Verge ·
The head of T-Mobile's parent company is casting doubt on SpaceX's plans to make Starlink Mobile a "major" carrier in the US. During an earnings call on Thursday, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges says he takes the Elon Musk-owned company "super serious," but that it will cost at least $200 billion…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Blue Origin has pushed New Glenn’s return to flight to January 2027, CEO Dave Limp told staff, Bloomberg reports. The rocket has been grounded since it exploded on its only launch pad in May, delaying Amazon Leo satellites and NASA’s Moon plans. Blue Origin has pushed back the return of its New…
AI / TechCrunch ·
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says the company could be ready to go public in 2027, pointing to accelerating enterprise revenue and a turnaround in its business.
Business / TechCrunch ·
Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.
AI / TechCrunch ·
With Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Zipline has raised $1.5bn at a $21.5bn valuation, the drone delivery company announced on Thursday. Paradigm, WCM Investment Management and Layer Global led the round. Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Uber, Tiger Global, J.P. Morgan, ARK Invest and Salesforce Ventures also invested. On the same day,…
AI / The Decoder ·
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want. The article Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation…
Startups / TechCrunch ·
The Los Angeles-based startup has now raised more than $650 million, and is working on electric trucks, emergency vehicles, and a driverless platform for the military.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Guardian Life signed a multi-year deal with Sierra to use its AI agents for about 1 million dental benefit verification calls a year, plus payments and claim status checks. It is Guardian’s third AI partnership in a year, after HCLTech and Avantos. US insurer Guardian Life is handing some of its…
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Using a capture card and open source software to run PS5 video through a PC GPU.
Business / Fortune ·
OpenAI took its Dev Day roadshow to London this week, attempting to sell the city’s developers on Dots, the company’s new, always-on AI assistant.
AI / The Verge ·
Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents. The startup's new always-on "Teammates" can take on multiple roles within a workspace, while pulling existing projects, skills, and memory from the Perplexity tools you already use. Teammates integrate with…
Tech / The Next Web ·
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Cyber, a security model it says beats all its earlier models at finding and exploiting software flaws. OpenAI says it also stays within the limits researchers set more reliably. The company announced the model on Thursday. It rated it “Critical” in cybersecurity under its…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Humble Robotics, a San Francisco start-up building self-driving electric freight vehicles, has raised $51m in a Series A round. Obvious Ventures led the round, announced on Thursday, and earlier investors Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners also took part. The new money brings Humble’s total…
Business / Fortune ·
Fuel for each cabin rose from $1,800 to as much as $8,000 a month, and founder Mikael Petterson says the Iran war broke the business.