Anthony Ha

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. - TechCrunch

Business August 10, 2026

As part of a planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States, according to TheοΏ½...

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate - TechCrunch

Business August 4, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to pace the rate of AI development so that society can harden around some of these new capability levels. On the latest episode of TechCrunchsοΏ½...

The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air - TechCrunch

Technology August 3, 2026

The global memory chip shortage is affecting the availability of Apples most popular Mac, according to Bloombergs Mark Gurman. Gurman said the shortage caused by the demands of chip-hungry AI companοΏ½...

Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on β€˜nudify’ apps - TechCrunch

Business August 3, 2026

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to nudify images can move forward, according to NBC News. U.S. District Judge Donovan Franks ruling focused as much on the timingοΏ½...

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI - TechCrunch

Business July 27, 2026

The launch of the latest AI model from a Chinese company Moonshot AIs Kimi reignited debates around American competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. While there was plenty of conversation onοΏ½...

Hugging Face CEO calls for β€˜radical transparency’ after β€˜unprecedented’ OpenAI hack - TechCrunch

Business July 27, 2026

After OpenAI recently admitted that one of its models had breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face, Hugging Faces CEO Clem Delangue posted on X that he was flying to San Francisco to have a lοΏ½...

Uber’s European expansion plans may have hit a speed bump - TechCrunch

Business July 7, 2026

Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 but now the Financial Times reports that five of those launches are on hold. Country launches that havοΏ½...

Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds | TechCrunch

Crypto July 6, 2026

Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trumps $TRUMP memecoin, according to cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. The New York Times reports that NanοΏ½...

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI - TechCrunch

Technology July 6, 2026

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline GroοΏ½...

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code - TechCrunch

Business July 5, 2026

Chinas Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropics programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiplereports.Β  Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as fo...