Mark Zuckerberg Just Published a 6,500-Word Essay on AI — Here Are the Crib Notes
The Meta CEO laid out his vision for open AI, government oversight and a new $1 billion fund for communities near data centers.
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
August 2026
Waymo Has Nearly 4,000 Cars on the Road. One Just Drove Over an Exploding Firework.
Waymo calls these unscripted moments “edge cases.” And they they keep happening.
Bumble ditches its rule that kept men from making the first move
Bumble is ditching the rule that it has enforced since launching in 2024. Men can finally message first.
Nvidia Is Close to a $500 Billion Deal to Build AI Infrastructure. Why Aren’t Some Investors Happy About It?
Nvidia, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and other major firms are nearing a deal to fund AI infrastructure. Nvidia’s stock dropped anyway.
Wendy’s Fell to No. 3 in Burger Chains. Its New CEO Blames ‘Quality Degradation.’
Bob Wright, who turned around Potbelly, is facing declining sales at Wendy’s. He says the fix starts with the food.
North Korean remote IT staffer worked for US government agency, says FBI
The investigation shows that North Koreans are able to infiltrate government agencies, as well as private organizations and crypto exchanges.
His Bootstrapped Business Fixes Broken Customer Service and Brings in 9 Figures a Year: ‘We Should Not Use AI to Replace the Human Touch’
Jose Herrera and his co-founders Alex Ross and Jared Karson set out to revamp outsourcing.
Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations
Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by default.
The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine years after Google researchers introduced the transformer, this family of neural networks has become the engine inside every major large…
What comes after the smartphone? Amazon’s Panos Panay will make his case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At Disrupt 2026, Amazon’s Panos Panay will provide an exclusive vision for what’s in store for us beyond the smartphone.