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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

LUCAS ROPEK

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases

AISHA MALIK

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular video platforms.

Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

SARAH PEREZ

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal.

Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

SARAH PEREZ

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company

SEAN O'KANE

Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

JON BRODKIN

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

SAMUEL AXON

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

ASHLEY BELANGER

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?

ZOË SCHIFFER, WILL KNIGHT

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

6 Takeaways From the GTA VI Extended Look

BOONE ASHWORTH

Grand Theft Auto VI is nigh. Here’s what the developer revealed about its highly anticipated game.

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

ASHLEY BELANGER

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

KYLE ORLAND

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

TECHCRUNCH EVENTS

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10

TECHCRUNCH EVENTS

A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politics, with cocktails, food, and networking throughout the night.

A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic

HUGO LOWELL

A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”