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Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI – Hugging Face attack
Nvidia has launched a new industry coalition, the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), bringing together major tech firms to promote open-source AI models as central to cybersecurity, in the wake of an incident in which autonomous OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face’s systems. The move reflects growing unease among rivals to the leading closed-source AI labs,…
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Meta AI direct messages now available to all Threads users worldwide
Meta has completed the rollout of the ability for all Threads users worldwide to send direct messages to Meta AI, expanding a feature it first tested publicly on Threads’ main feed in May 2026. The company says the change responds to user feedback requesting more private, contextual interactions with the AI without needing to share…
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Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows
Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from just 15% a year ago, according to new data from market intelligence firm Similarweb, underlining how quickly AI-generated answers are replacing traditional search results. The shift matters because it marks a fundamental change in Google’s role: rather than simply directing users to other websites…
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Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch has previewed the agenda for the Smart Systems Stage at its Disrupt 2026 conference, a programme dedicated to the energy and infrastructure challenges underpinning AI’s growth. The event, running from 13 to 15 October at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, will bring together executives from fusion, energy and grid technology companies to discuss the mounting…
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Nvidia launches new open-source AI security alliance
Nvidia has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition intended to develop and share open tools, models and techniques for securing AI systems, software and autonomous agents. The initiative matters because it argues that transparent, collaboratively developed security defences can help organisations identify and fix vulnerabilities as AI capabilities and cyber threats advance. The…
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Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
Ilya Sutskever’s AI lab Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has emerged from two years of stealth to announce a long-term partnership with Nvidia, aimed at dramatically expanding its computing power. The deal gives SSI access to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPU platform, expected to boost the startup’s compute resources “by an order of magnitude”, and comes as SSI,…
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Micron’s low power DRAM ‘consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5’ in AI data center workloads, but I’m not sure that’s good news
Micron has highlighted that its low-power DRAM (LPDRAM), originally developed for smartphones and other battery-powered devices, uses roughly a third of the power that standard DDR5 memory consumes when deployed in AI data centre workloads. The company is positioning this efficiency as a selling point as data centres scramble to curb the enormous energy demands…
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As Grand Theft Auto 6 hopefuls grow anxious for a gameplay trailer, AI GTA6 slop is getting millions of views on social media
As Grand Theft Auto 6 inches towards its November release date and people grow anxious for a proper gameplay trailer, GTA6 AI slop is raking in millions of views on social media. Read more
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Why AI is sampling – and how that will affect the future
An op-ed by sample-clearance veteran Deborah Mannis-Gardner argues that generative AI music tools are, in effect, doing exactly what music sampling has done for decades: recombining pre-existing recordings rather than creating something genuinely new. She contends this matters because AI firms such as Suno and Udio have relied on “fair use” defences when sued over…
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Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill
Global technology spending is being reshaped by an unprecedented AI infrastructure build-out, with the cost increasingly passed on to enterprise customers through higher hardware and software prices. Gartner analyst John-David Lovelock told The Register that tech firms’ own technology spending is around $1 trillion and set to grow 34.7 per cent in 2026, describing the…