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On the industry side, two AI-focused political action committees (PACs) that raised and spent money to influence the elections — American Mission and Building the Future — collectively spent $4.8 million to back South Carolina Senate candidate Darline Graham, who lost. American Mission is the Republican spending arm of Leading the Future (LTF), a broader political group backed by OpenAI president Greg Brockman and the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. American

Tuesday’s results suggest that anger over data centers, the large facilities that house the computers powering AI, is becoming a political force. With Democrats now in control of Congress, that could lead to new limits on where data centers can be built and how much say local communities have. Data centers became a ballot-box issue in various states. An NBC exit poll showed how concerned voters are about AI: More than half of respondents believe that AI wi

Instead, Agility is going public through a reverse merger that will see it become a publicly traded company and raise $465 million in new capital from retail investors and a tranche of private funding. The transaction will take place through a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. “You don’t see a lot of dancing robots or backflipping robots from Agility,” CEO Peggy Johnson told TechCrunch ahead of the company’s market debut. “We stuck to our strat

While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials. “It’s more difficult to specify problems clearly in materials science because it’s not like math, where you have a very specific definition and can get to a yes or no,” said Advaith Sridhar, a co-founder of Discovered Materials, which was part of Y Combin

Called Box Content Retrieval, the new feature allows agents to answer queries far more effectively by relying on the embedded metadata created by Nemotron. Box says the upshot for users is faster, more accurate, and less expensive queries. Nvidia’s VP of generative AI software, Kari Briski, told TechCrunch that she expects queries to be answered four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used. The system will be available to all of Box’s

The startup, which raised $5.5 million in July, is positioning the ring as a controller of sorts for both AI and non-AI apps. The company previously made Mirage, a three-key controller that let you invoke buttons based on the app on your Mac’s screen. For instance, if you were on a Google Meet call, you could map keys to camera on/off, mic mute/unmute, or to leave the meeting. Aina has baked in lessons from that device to create the new ring, which it’s si

Announced Thursday, the deal is expected to strengthen Dropbox’s AI infrastructure capabilities and support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at businesses and developers building AI models and agents. Dropbox told TechCrunch via email that the transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. The company also said it currently has no plans to reduce headcount as part of the acquisition. The company already cut

Axiom Math is betting math can avoid that fate, not by slowing down, but by standing on firmer ground. The $1.6 billion startup wants to build a verified foundation that AI agents can rely on to write software and, eventually, do science. On Wednesday, the company announced it had formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the largest bodies of mathematics ever written by humans. Mathematicians often hold Stacks in rare regard — Columbia mathematician Pe

In response to the interviewer’s question about being IPO-ready next year, Brockman replied, “I think so. Yes.” “We’ve been very clear this year that we want to go public when we feel is the right time for us, and I feel extremely good about the business. I feel like we’ve made so much progress this year, and I’ve honestly never felt more confident in what we’re doing,” Brockman said. He detailed how OpenAI’s trajectory as an enterprise had changed over th

Justicz, who has a hobbyist’s interest in cybersecurity and previously found a vulnerability in the same codebase, told TechCrunch that he found this issue using GPT 5.6 Sol, released in July, through the AI maker’s Daybreak Blue, a program that gives cybersecurity defenders access to powerful frontier models. “I literally just aimed ChatGPT at the same body of code and said ‘I found this bug previously that was fixed several years ago, please find bugs as

When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Aug 16, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now {

Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder Full breaks into the AI top tier Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 12, 2026 Meta Key Points Meta's two new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, close the gap to the leading frontier models. The biggest gains are in agentic coding and autonomous problem-solving. Both versions cost nearly three times as much per API call as their predecessor, Muse Spark 1.3. Ask about this article… S

Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 18, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.

Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 25, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@con

Study explains why AI agents benefit from "skills" and when they fail Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Aug 22, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https:/

Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead? Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Aug 20, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context":

Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 6, 2026 Artificial Analysis Key Points Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters, 17 billion of which are active at any given time. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Inkling 2 Small scor

METR finds Anthropic may have crossed its own AI acceleration warning threshold back in July Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Anthropic AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.

Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now {

Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 3, 2026 GPT-Image-2.5 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https: