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Cap table management platform Pulley, backed by General Catalyst, Stripe, and Founders Fund, announced that it's closing shop in December.

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.

Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?

The move closes the gap between the market discussions taking place on the timeline, and the market itself.

CFO Mark Davies and legal chief Andy Missan signed each other’s severance agreements while Matt Mullenweg was on leave, providing a year of salary and additional equity vesting if their departures qualify for the benefits.

Elisa de Martel, who left her position as chief financial officer at Alphabet's autonomous vehicle company Waymo in January, will be based out of Silicon Valley.

At this year's Disrupt, Science Corp CEO Max Hodak will present a vision for screen-free interfaces that can even offer medical help. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.

There may be a simpler and more effective fix for rogue agents, hiding in plain sight.

The ShinyHunters gang leaked the files online after saying the Florida state agency did not pay their ransom demand.

Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries, and access smart home activity using natural language.

Anthropic is initially releasing these features to Pro and Max plan subscribers.

“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently raised $163 million from the likes of Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, and Valor Equity […]

The deal could net the asset-light robotaxi company more than $300 million in funding.

The robotics industry is still waiting for their breakthrough into day-to-day life. Nvidia's Les Karpas has an answer as to why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.

The Pixel phone maker said there are indications that a bug in the phone's modem "may be under limited, targeted exploitation."

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Samus is geared up for another adventure. | Image: Nintendo The Metroid series is going back to its 2D roots again with Metroid Ravenous for the Nintendo Switch 2, the first side-scrolling game in the series since 2021’s Metroid Dread for the Nintendo Switch. If you’re already excited enough to consider preordering, you can save $10 on the physical version of the game when you buy it from Walmart. It’s $59.88 instead of $69.99, about the same as buying it digitally. The game launches on January 28th, 2027, but it’s not clear how long the preorder discount will last. If

According to The Information , Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with Nvidia to make it happen. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely left enterprise machines to other manufacturers since. But the growing demand for compute power as the AI industry continues to expand has apparently led the company to believe there is an opening for its powerful but efficient ARM-based M processors. Its Mac Mini and Mac Studio have proven popular with AI developers , which has led to shortages. The server product, whether it's called

My villain origin story is my Whoop age. How do you age at 0.9 times your age and end up four to five years older than you are? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here . During last week's Apple Watch announcement, I let out a distinct "Noooo!" in the Steve Jobs Theater. Along with a new readiness metric and a redesigned

Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol . Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides . They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude "can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is

Siri’s reintroduction takes center stage as Apple officially rolls out the latest version of macOS to download and install.

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The bloc wants to curb Big Tech’s grip on children with its new EU Kids Act, but age checks, parental oversight, and privacy concerns could make its plan difficult to implement.

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Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also rallied against Silicon Valley, their backers turned to Donald Trump.

As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses.

Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.

Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.

GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.

César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.

Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client-ready materials.

OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.

GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.

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Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action while the policy window remains open.

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Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.

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OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.

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OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.

Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.

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OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.

A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.

OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.

ChatGPT for Teachers is expanding to 55 U.S. school systems, bringing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 more educators and staff.

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OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

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Across the world, organizations are partnering with Google Cloud to tackle their toughest challenges, drive digital transformation, and unlock new levels of growth. In Europe, organizations face unique and complex regulatory challenges. To ensure we're delivering the best possible value and experience for our customers here, we have established a new European Advisory Board. This distinguished group of leaders from across various industries will act as a vital feedback channel, help customers navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and foster a strong, sustainable digital economy. Their counsel is key to ensuring Google Cloud products not only meet but exceed European requirements, driving

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up , we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we look into new research agents from Deutsche Bank and The Max Planck Institute ; helping devs strut their stuff with new databases for Rent the Runway ; mortgage lender Mr. Cooper ’s “team” of AI agents answering tough customer questions;

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up , we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we explore Uber ’s revamped network with modern edge; smarter, AI-infused site search at Target ; a wicked fast blockchain built by Keeta Network ; HCA Healthcare empowers its nurses with a new AI-powered information portal; Deutche Telecom enhances its data

A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s biggest competitors. Despite regulatory scrutiny, it’s clear that Microsoft intends to keep its restrictive licensing policies in place for most cloud customers. In fact, it’s getting worse. As part of a recent earnings call, Microsoft disclosed that its efforts to force software customers to use Azure are “not anywhere close to the finish line,” and represented one of three pillars “driving [its] growth.” As

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up , we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we explore Box’s AI agents extracting insights with cross-platform agent integration; Schroders uses multiple connected agents to build a complex investment research system; Hypros ’ IoT device can monitor patient distress in hospitals without individual monitoring; a Formula E exhibition of

There’s a buzz of excitement here at Tobacco Dock as we welcome our customers and partners to the Google Cloud Summit London. Together, we’re exploring the essential role Google Cloud is playing in driving AI innovation and adoption across the UK. Today is about shining a spotlight on our customers and partners, focusing on the real-world stories of how they are accelerating innovation, realising value, and reshaping entire industries with the powerful combination of AI agents and robust cloud infrastructure. The opportunity ahead is immense. AI is poised to inject more than £400 billion into the UK economy by 2030

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this monthly round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our inaugural edition, we explore Lowe’s new Visual Scout product recommendation engine powered by Vertex AI Vector Search; a responsive “Driver Agent” platform created by Formula E to bring more equity to the track; Ester AI, a conversational tool from wealth.com that can help financial

Week of Dec 16 - Dec 20 Windows Server 2025 is now available on Google Compute Engine. We are excited to announce the general availability of Windows Server 2025 on Google Compute Engine. You can now run Windows Server 2025 Data Center, and Windows Server 2025 Data Center Core editions as well as Windows SQL Server 2022 on Windows Server 2025 with pay-as-you-go licenses. Customers that don’t already have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement can use the Google Compute Engine’s provided image to take advantage of Google Cloud’s relationships with Microsoft for pay-as-you-go licenses that scale with your workload and offers

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that 2024 was a busy year for Google Cloud. From AI to Zero Trust, and everything in between, here’s a chronological recap of our top blogs of 2024, according to readership. You’ll probably see some favorites on this list, and discover a few that you missed the first time around. January We started the new year strong, removing data transfer fees for anyone moving data off of our platform. Translation: Anyone doing cool things on Google Cloud (like using generative AI to analyze their microservices deployment) is doing it because

Over the past year, the pace of innovation across industries and around the world has been extraordinary. At Google, we're inspired by the public sector’s ingenuity and speed in adopting our AI and security innovations to achieve remarkable outcomes together. Since Google Cloud Next , we've launched more powerful versions of Gemini , rolled out Gemini Flash and Imagen 3 . And we're proud to showcase inspiring examples from the public sector, highlighting how organizations are leveraging generative AI to drive transformative change. From state agencies streamlining citizen services to healthcare providers improving patient outcomes and defense organizations enhancing mission

Editors note, November 28th, 2025: “We filed our antitrust complaint with the European Commission (EC) to give voice to our customers and partners about the issue of anticompetitive cloud licensing practices. Today, we are withdrawing it in light of the recent announcement that the EC will assess problematic practices affecting the cloud sector under a separate process. We stand behind the arguments outlined in the blog below, and we continue to work with policymakers, customers, and regulators across the EU, the UK, and elsewhere to advocate for choice and openness in the cloud market." - Giorgia Abeltino, Head of Government

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . Week of Dec 10 - Dec 15 Announcing Launch of Cross Cloud Materialized Views : To help customers on their cross-cloud analytics journey, today we are thrilled to announce the public preview of BigQuery Omni cross-cloud materialized views (aka cross-cloud MVs).

To our customers: At Google Cloud, we put your interests first. This means that when you choose to work with us, we become partners on a journey of shared innovation, shared support, and shared fate. We are committed to helping you evolve as technology advances, drawing on our depth of experience to ensure you can use the latest and best technology, while keeping you safe and protected. When it comes to the rapidly developing world of generative AI, this is imperative. Earlier this year, we embedded Duet AI — an always-on AI collaborator — across our products, from Google Workspace

Editor’s note : Jack Ngare is a Technical Director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO based in Nairobi, Kenya. A native of Kenya, he worked in telecommunications abroad for 12 years before returning home to work for a large African financial institution and a U.S. technology company. He joined Google Cloud last year with a mission to digitize and modernize Cloud’s global top customers, while simultaneously growing Africa's entrepreneurial technology culture. What is the opportunity you see before you? Working at Google Cloud, I’m able to bring people some of the world's best software and hardware engineering. I also

Editor’s note : Alicia Abella is the Managing Director for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. The work involves bringing complex, advanced technology to businesses across diverse markets and cultures — from startups in Brazil to North America's largest telecommunications companies. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba, she has a PhD, 29 patents, and extensive experience running teams and working with customers. Did you always see yourself bringing new inventions into the world? No, not at all. I grew up in Queens, New York — the only child of Cuban immigrants. My parents worked hard and saved money so I

Welcome back. Coursera's new AI platform, Project Helix, aims to fix corporate training by replacing generic content with adaptive learning and proof of skills. Meanwhile, Apple's September event showed AI woven into every new product it announced. For example, the Apple Watch's new Siri Recap and Live Rewind quietly turn it into an AI wearable. But the showstopper was the iPhone Duo, which I got to test hands-on and I believe points toward where every phone is headed within the next few years. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. iPhone Duo unfolds Apple's vision of the AI future 2.

Welcome back. Humanoid robots are still too expensive for most homes, but IFA made the future feel closer as AI accelerates developments in training. Meta is betting that its new Muse agent can become a trusted everyday assistant, but asking consumers to connect their most sensitive data puts Meta's privacy shortcomings in the spotlight. And OpenAI’s next model is already pushing beyond Astra, using thousands of agents to tackle one of mathematics’ hardest problems. The breakthrough is remarkable, but it also raises uncomfortable questions about whether the models are advancing faster than our ability to understand them. — Jason Hiner

Welcome back. AI agents are giving hackers a major speed boost, with Google’s latest threat report showing autonomous systems already scanning infrastructure, harvesting credentials, and compressing attacks into hours. Meanwhile, Arm is trying to bring more order to robotics and physical AI with a shared framework that could solve fragmentation and help the industry scale. And ahead of this week’s new iPhone unveiling, I look back at Apple’s strongest AI success story: photography. For a decade, Apple has used AI and ML to quietly improve the camera, offering a blueprint for how it could lead in AI. — Jason Hiner

Welcome back. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work team joins our podcast to explain how agents and proactive AI will make prompting less central to the ways we use AI throughout the day. Google’s much-ballyhooed Rambler offers Wispr Flow-level speed and accuracy, but it's still missing the right tone by getting the punctuation wrong. And GPT-6 Astra raises the question of what happens when models become harder to monitor as they get smarter. With observability getting more challenging, OpenAI's chief scientist signals that it may be time to coordinate with other labs before control gets harder. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Hello, friends. Granola’s new Apple Watch app uses a device people already have to make AI more useful. The app records in-person conversations with a tap, syncs notes across devices, and makes the recordings easy to access. Thanks to Granola for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner Granola for face-to-face conversations. Now on Apple Watch. Some of the most important conversations happen away from your laptop. Brainstorming at a whiteboard. A walking one-on-one. Candid advice over coffee. A customer visit or an investor chat where opening a laptop would break

Welcome back. Nvidia’s $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face is counting on the open model ecosystem scaling without losing independence, but that tension will be worth watching closely. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra arrives as its most capable model yet, with a big focus on agentic work and professional tasks, plus tighter safeguards in light of the Hugging Face incident. And Nvidia is also pushing local AI forward on Windows, with new hardware and software that could narrow Apple’s lead in running models and agents on-device. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI's Astra leans into agentic tasks and safety 2.

Welcome back. AI is getting cheaper and more capable, but that also raises the stakes for human judgment. Our conversation with Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau explores why deciding what to build, and how to govern it, will be where value accrues. CrowdStrike is giving agents verifiable identities and defenders tools that operate at machine speed, but the most valuable thing it's giving enterprises is confidence. And with its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model, Google is once again counting on raw performance mattering less than delivering reliable intelligence at a fraction of the cost. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Welcome back. Perplexity's new Hybrid Compute agent automatically routes sensitive tasks to local models while sending general tasks to frontier-class models in the cloud, a privacy-first approach other tech companies and AI labs look likely to emulate. CrowdStrike is tackling the growing fear of agents running amok with an aggressive three-part strategy for eliminating malicious AI activity before it spreads. And Anthropic's new Fable 5.1 model touts a big efficiency win that effectively cuts agentic workload costs by 45% without sacrificing performance. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Claude costs less in the new Fable 5.1 2. CrowdStrike

Welcome back. AI devices may be booming, but too many of them duplicate what your smartphone already does. The category needs to get a lot more ambitious. Speaking of ambitious, Physical Superintelligence is using AI-driven physics to optimize infrastructure and solve some of the key roadblocks to interstellar travel. And as frontier models make cyberattacks faster and cheaper, Cloudflare is solving the problem by changing the economics. Its Adaptive Intelligence continuously learns from live traffic, creating a moving target designed to make automated attacks slower, harder and a lot more expensive for hackers. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Welcome back. Google is turning your ebooks into AI context inside Gemini Notebook, a move that could make grounded, source-based AI more useful if it expands to Kindle and other ebook sources. AMD is making an AI infrastructure bet that openness and customer choice can loosen Nvidia’s grip on the AI stack as hardware economics get more challenging. Meanwhile, the data centers powering all of this are becoming AI’s political flashpoint, as public opposition hardens against AI factories. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. The AI boom can’t outrun public opposition 2. How Google is turning books into AI

Welcome back. With frontier model capabilities racing ahead at a rapid clip, Replit becomes the latest company to embrace efficiency and cost over power with its model routing service. And a recent model release from Cohere tells a similar story: using niche models for specific tasks may prove better results. Meanwhile, Agility Robotics CTO Pras Velagapudi discusses how the company has found success targeting manufacturing as the first big niche for humanoid robots. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why AI’s future may belong to niche models 2. Inside Agility's bet on factory-first humanoids 3. As models commoditize, Replit

Welcome back. Open models are gaining ground as enterprises chase lower costs, more control and better privacy. Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion deal for Hugging Face would allow it to play a central role in the future of the open model ecosystem. At the same time, more than 100 leading tech companies warn that AI-enabled cyberattacks are advancing faster than our defenses, and they are united in calling for an urgent, industry-wide response. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Nvidia’s Hugging Face bet is bigger than models 2. Why AI rivals are uniting to prevent cyber crisis 3. The economics

Welcome back. Google is turning one of the Pixel 11’s best features into a platform. By opening the model behind Rambler, Google is giving developers the capability to bring polished, conversational dictation to virtually every device. Salesforce and Anthropic are weaving Claude across Salesforce and Slack so enterprises can inject intelligence into some of their most used platforms. And China’s Z.ai revealed itself as the lab behind the viral Ox Alpha model, showing that capable AI does not need frontier pricing. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Chinese models may win AI’s efficiency race 2. Salesforce taps Claude

Welcome back. Perplexity and Nvidia are betting a new brand of local agents can cut token costs, speed up performance, and keep sensitive data private. Apple’s also thinking about local AI, and its new M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio show how seriously Cupertino now is taking this opportunity. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, beats Nvidia Blackwell on performance per watt in a SemiAnalysis benchmark. It's a striking result for silicon developed in under two years, with the help of OpenAI's latest models. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. How OpenAI's Jalapeno chip surprised the

Welcome back. The biggest shift happening in AI right now is more economic than technical. Thomson Reuters has built its own domain-specific model, using proprietary data to own the intelligence layer of its business while potentially lowering costs. And OpenAI is cutting frontier-model prices as enterprises get more disciplined about what intelligence is actually worth. Meanwhile, new Indeed data shows AI job exposure is highest in cities built around software and knowledge work, while trade jobs and hands-on work remains resilient. See the US cities most at risk for AI-powered transformation. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI has