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?
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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, 2026TechCrunch
Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes headline a Disrupt 2026 Builders Stage session on open vs closed models as a live business decision—not a philosophy seminar.
AISep 17, 2026WIRED
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
At Dreamforce, Amodei pitched industry standards after rivals’ safety incidents, Huang said no new laws were needed, Altman called fear justified—while Kapoor argued loss-of-control is as much negligent cybersecurity as alignment mysticism.
AISep 17, 2026TechCrunch
Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
Huawei is pulling Ascend 960DT forward to Q1 2027 and pitching Peerium-scale clusters—just days before Trump and Xi meet—while an analyst flags a quieter shrink in the SuperPoD story.
AISep 17, 2026TechCrunch
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic are backing Emerald AI’s demand-response coalition—betting paused jobs and shifted loads can unlock far more data-center megawatts without waiting on new plants.
AISep 16, 2026NVIDIA Developer
How to Use AI Agents to Prepare 3D Scenes for Simulation
NVIDIA's tutorial shows agentic workflows turning Blender art into SimReady OpenUSD—labels, physics, sensors, and validation—so robotics teams stop burning training cycles on unfinished worlds.
AISep 16, 2026NVIDIA Developer
TensorRT Edge-LLM Completes the MLPerf Edge Agentic Benchmark 6.4x Faster on Jetson AGX Thor
NVIDIA’s TensorRT Edge-LLM ran a 27B agent stack on one Jetson AGX Thor and finished MLPerf’s edge agentic workload more than six times faster than the llama.cpp reference.
AISep 16, 2026The Verge
Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush
The Information says Apple is eyeing a return to servers—possibly with Nvidia NVLink Fusion—years after killing Xserve, chasing AI compute demand its Mac minis already feel.
AISep 16, 2026NVIDIA Developer
Translating CUDA Tile Operations from Python to Rust Using Agentic AI
NVIDIA’s TileGym agent skill ports cuTile Python and Triton-TileIR kernels to cuTile Rust—24 operators at about 99.5% of Python performance, with machine-checkable IR diffs along the way.
AISep 16, 2026NVIDIA Blog
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
In its MLPerf Inference v6.1 debut, NVIDIA says Vera Rubin NVL72 posts up to 3.7x the throughput of GB300 NVL72, with GB300 four-rack runs at 99% scaling efficiency.
AISep 16, 2026TechCrunch
Robots are waiting for a ChatGPT moment: Nvidia’s Les Karpas explains why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Nvidia Inception’s Les Karpas heads to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to argue robotics still lacks its ChatGPT-scale breakthrough—and what’s blocking physical AI’s mass adoption.