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AI helping ease the UK’s NHS burden

The words “pressure” and “NHS” go hand in hand in the UK and unfortunately there is no sign of a reduction in the strain the institution suffers any time soon. As NHS England continues the struggle to reduce its 7.25 million waiting list, new policies are being introduced to move care away from h...

Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the ...

Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next

“We really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into,” said one researcher involved in the first-of-its-kind study that dosed fish with psilocybin, the component in magic mushrooms.

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT, an optional safety feature that notifies someone you trust if serious self-harm concerns are detected.

Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

Simplex rethinks software development with Codex

Simplex boosts software development with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, reducing design, build, and testing time while scaling AI-driven workflows.

SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket

Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX's busiest launch site—for now.

Anthropic Finance Agents Pose Threat to Established Service Providers

The vendor’s new agents could find a home in big Wall Street firms, threaten mid-sized service providers and start to push entry-level finance jobs aside.

Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch

TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.

Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers

Chairman Brendan Carr celebrates FCC court loss in case over Biden-era rule.

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

OpenAI Launches Training Spec to Boost Large-Scale AI

The protocol is designed to improve GPU performance as AI compute ramps up.

vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL

How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.

SAP Plans to Turn Spreadsheet AI Startup Into Top Frontier Lab

The move indicates that the German enterprise software giant is intent on growing its own in-house AI capabilities.

SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Texas, according to a filing with Grimes County.