Hugging Face’s CEO Says His P(Doom) Is ‘Close to Zero’
“Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors,” Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI.
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Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more…
Nothing teases a screen-free AI device ahead of launch next month
Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company's launching its first AI device in December. That's just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for "AI-native" devices and an AI operating system. He…
ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs
ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot. The update, which is rolling out alongside OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model, allows you to adjust the GIF's animation speed, edit individual…
My therapist thinks I should chuck the Amazon Bee Frontier out a window
Also, can I just say this LED indicator light is way too small and unnoticeable? This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and…
The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers
From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms.
I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
Data centers lost the midterms
Data center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor moratoriums and ballot measures that put more obstacles on their expansion…
Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter
AI agents won't be stealing Uber's lunch any time soon. Only four rides were arranged by third-party AI agents during the third quarter of 2026, Uber executives disclosed during an earnings call this morning. The volume…
Sam Altman addresses RAM comments: people should ‘put as much as they want in their computers’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent election night defending his position on PC RAM purchases. He changed his name on X to "Ram Altman" in response to another user's comment, saying, "i actually do want the world to have tons…
OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption
A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Doors open at 9 a.m. ET in Boston
Today is the day to join TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston's SoWa Power Station. Register now to join this founder-focused conference today.
Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.
Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine
Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However…
DevRev delivers autonomous self-service with GPT-6.1 Sol
DevRev uses GPT-6.1 Sol to power Computer and Operator, balancing reasoning, speed, and cost for enterprise service.
Introducing Images 2.6
Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
Tencent WeVisOne-VL Unifies Detection, OCR, Segmentation and Matting
Tencent’s WeChat Vision team has released WeVisOne-VL, an open vision language model in 2B and 4B sizes. The WeVisOne-VL vision language model handles detection, referring, counting, pointing, OCR, segmentation and…
The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI
The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today…
Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop
Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), during the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images…
Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.
Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed Weights
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype for provable inference. FlashProve is a zkSNARK system from Anthropic that proves a reply came from a committed model. The proof…
Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom
Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal
Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.
Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake
These edits of Jason Statham (left) and Jeff Bezos are a bit jarring, but that’s sort of the point. | Image: The Verge Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both…
NVIDIA Shows 3 Ways to Speed Up MoE Inference on DGX Spark, Lifting Ling-3.0-flash Throughput 42.5%
NVIDIA’s latest technical blog shows how to speed up mixture-of-experts (MoE) inference on one DGX Spark. The test model is Ant Group inclusionAI’s Ling-3.0-flash, a 124B-parameter MoE with 5.1B active parameters…