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Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed

TechCrunch [ai] - 23:01 Oct 20, 2026

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

TechCrunch [ai] - 22:24 Oct 20, 2026

Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.

Tags: Netflix
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy

TechCrunch [ai] - 21:25 Oct 20, 2026

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

Tags: Anthropic
SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

TechCrunch [ai] - 20:40 Oct 20, 2026

SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

Tags: SpaceX
OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

TechCrunch [ai] - 20:35 Oct 20, 2026

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

Tags: OpenAI
Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

TechCrunch [ai] - 18:38 Oct 20, 2026

Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

Tags: Google Amazon
ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats

TechCrunch [ai] - 18:36 Oct 20, 2026

The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.
Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei

TechCrunch [ai] - 17:55 Oct 20, 2026

The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
Meta’s Muse hits 10M U.S. downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps

TechCrunch [ai] - 17:12 Oct 20, 2026

Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.

Tags: Muse
Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’

TechCrunch [ai] - 16:20 Oct 20, 2026

It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language

TechCrunch [ai] - 16:00 Oct 20, 2026

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol

TechCrunch [ai] - 14:13 Oct 20, 2026

Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data.

Tags: Figma
US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems

TechCrunch [ai] - 13:07 Oct 20, 2026

The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.

Tags: DeepSeek
Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

TechCrunch [ai] - 13:00 Oct 20, 2026

Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

TechCrunch [ai] - 11:00 Oct 20, 2026

Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation. […]

Tags: Otter General Catalyst
Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant

TechCrunch [ai] - 11:00 Oct 20, 2026

Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.

Tags: Yelp
Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

TechCrunch [ai] - 01:27 Oct 20, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

Tags: New Yorkers
Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal

TechCrunch [ai] - 23:39 Oct 19, 2026

In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.

Tags: Nscale Anthropic
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

TechCrunch [ai] - 22:49 Oct 19, 2026

AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, during a discussion at TechCrunch […]

Tags: Hugging Face
Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

TechCrunch [ai] - 22:04 Oct 19, 2026

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Tags: Microsoft

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