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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and β€˜Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI - TechCrunch

Business August 27, 2026

Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft co-founder has been thinking about the social impacts of AI. Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI cοΏ½...

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI - techcrunch.com

Business August 12, 2026

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the β€œpersonal superintelligence” systems Meta AI is building. The ideas in the po...

OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund - TechCrunch

Business July 3, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Under the ...

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment - TechCrunch

Business July 3, 2026

On Thursday, Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company, focused on delivering successful enterprise AI deployments with Microsoft’s existing AI tools. The projec...

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic - TechCrunch

Business July 1, 2026

As companies struggle to integrate AI, theyre increasingly ready to bring in outside help and service providers are launching new purpose-built groups to make sure they get it. On Tuesday, Amazon WeοΏ½...

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go - TechCrunch

Technology June 30, 2026

Cursor isn’t letting the $60 billion SpaceX acquisition slow it down. On Monday, the company announced a new app called Cursor Mobile, designed for users who want to prompt coding agents directly ...

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom - TechCrunch

Business June 25, 2026

On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom. Named JalapeΓ±o, the new processor was designed specifically for the...

Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves - TechCrunch

Technology May 14, 2026

For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could. With investors pouring money into a new generation of research-driveοΏ½...

Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services - TechCrunch

Business May 6, 2026

On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs will be founding partners in the new venture, which οΏ½...

Nearly half of xAI’s founding team has now left the company - TechCrunch

Business February 12, 2026

Monday night, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced he was leaving the company. β€œIt’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in a late-night post on X. β€œIt is an era with full possibilities: ...