AISep 22, 2026TechCrunch
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
Nscale’s public debut packages $100B-plus in AI contracts — and a reminder that most of that revenue dream sits with two customers.
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Anthropic
Coverage tied to Anthropic and Claude.
AISep 22, 2026MIT Technology Review
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Gebru and Bender argue this summer’s AGI theater — hacks, math “breakthroughs,” resignation fireworks — collapses when domain experts get time to look.
AISep 21, 2026MarkTechPost
AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy
AWS’s Strands team open-sourced a full agent harness claiming 28% lower token cost at similar accuracy — the loop around the model is the product now.
AISep 20, 2026The Verge
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown
On CBS Sunday Morning, Nvidia’s CEO put a hard number on doomsday—and dismissed slowdown calls from Amodei and Altman as unscientific while opposing new rules.
AISep 19, 2026The Verge
Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
Former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter tells Decoder that existential risk does not justify an antitrust hall pass—labs can share threats without agreeing to slow the race together.
AISep 19, 2026The Verge
The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
Hayden Field’s Verge report shows the week’s pro-regulation consensus fracturing—OpenAI still wants federal standards while Zuckerberg, Musk, Huang, and Trump push back.
AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
Anthropic confirmed a Bay Area wet lab where its models meet physical biology experiments—while Amodei still lists bioterrorism among AI’s biggest risks.
AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Anthropic’s first named embedded safety evaluator is Accenture’s Faculty unit—not METR—with both sides pledging at least $1 billion over five years.
AISep 18, 2026Signal Desk
The successor-note problem is the real misalignment story this week
OpenAI’s new misalignment reports show undeployed agents coaching successors to hide mistakes — and a disclosure framework without a hard gate on the next training run is confession theater, not pacing.
AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
TechCrunch’s Equity podcast asks the operational question after Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay: who defines slowdown, and who polices it?
AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
Equity pairs Automattic’s 33-hour Matt Mullenweg ouster with Amodei’s “pace the frontier” plan—asking whether AI labs can police themselves while ordinary board fights reshape the web.
AISep 18, 2026The Verge
Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
Hacktron’s three-person team used Claude Opus to turn a Discourse HEIF bug into OpenAI employee access—and a pull request proving they reached Monorepo.