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AI News
Aug 25, 2026 72

Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica

Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.

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Aug 25, 2026 41

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

Tested on Semianalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the cu...

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Aug 25, 2026 41

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, accordin...

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Aug 25, 2026 37

Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

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Aug 25, 2026 35

‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

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Aug 25, 2026 42

OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supp...

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Aug 25, 2026 33

I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.

Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence in...

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Aug 25, 2026 39

Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."

AI News
Aug 24, 2026 40

Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.

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Aug 24, 2026 28

Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developin...

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Aug 24, 2026 37

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on u...

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Aug 24, 2026 48

XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding

XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The C...