In Brief Posted: 1:15 PM PDT · May 17, 2026 Image Credits:Artur Widak/NurPhoto / Getty Images Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference ...

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization. But as Kirsten ...

Commencement season has come around again — and this year, a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an ...

In Brief Posted: 1:17 PM PDT · May 16, 2026 Image Credits:z_wei / Getty Images The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media ...

ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they ...

In Brief Posted: 8:33 AM PDT · May 16, 2026 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy, according to ...

How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially ...

In Brief Posted: 1:40 PM PDT · May 10, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the ...

Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean ...

Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services for e-commerce businesses, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down. The startup was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2019 ...