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AI News
Aug 20, 2026 41

OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?

Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- but his suggestion is not completely ...

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 58

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potenti...

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 96

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders

Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 119

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 125

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 69

A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

Research
Aug 20, 2026 59

Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark

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AI News
Aug 20, 2026 116

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large lan...

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 94

Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quiet...

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 95

Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the com...

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 65

It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now

OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with ...

AI News
Aug 20, 2026 74

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and a...