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Financial Times: President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying “you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up” — President denounces demands for regulation as existential fears over technology move to the centre of US politics

Donica Phifer / Axios: Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand — Also: The company prepares a retail store shake-up. — Apple's iPhone Duo will go down as one of the company's histor

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition — Low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital has emerged as one of the rocket maker's largest sharehold

Dallas’ Perry Weather Raises $110M to Automate Severe Weather Safety Decisions As rules about heat and lightning grow nationwide, the Uptown Dallas company is betting AI and automation can take the guesswork out of calls regarding severe weather. by John Egan • Sep 9, 2026 Dallas-based Perry Weather

After a tumultuous week, which saw WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ousted from his position as CEO of Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company, by way of a board vote, the company has now issued a statement confirming that Mullenweg has returned to his position. “Matt Mullenweg is the chairman an

Z.ai sought roughly US$5 billion in Hong Kong through an HK$714 share placement and a RMB 20.14 billion convertible bond, its second equity tap two months after a July placing, as half-year revenue rose fourfold and management put annualised recurring revenue at US$1.6 billion by end-August.

Bloomberg: Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump — Donald Trump's pledge to ensure that Bitcoin mining activity is centered in the US is rapidly disintegrating under the twin forces

In this articleORCLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTOracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison during a launch event at the company's headquarters in Redwood Shores, California June 10, 2014.Noah Berger | ReutersLarry Ellison has canceled his plan to sell up to 50 million of his shares i

Another Y Combinator Demo Day took place on Thursday, but this batch looked a little different. While every cohort brings a fresh wave of founders, the startups presenting this week skewed far more toward deep tech than in past years. As we do every quarter, TechCrunch asked early-stage VCs to name

The next phase of artificial intelligence in legal technology will not be defined by a better chatbot or a faster document-summarization tool. It will be defined by whether AI systems can take responsibility for real work that unfolds over days or weeks, spans multiple systems and communication chan

“Q-Day,” the point at which quantum computers begin to break the encryption protecting most of the internet, lives in the same mental category as other far-off technology risks: real eventually, but not something requiring immediate action. That assumption is no longer safe. In March, Google LLC set

Artificial intelligence agents tied to OpenAI Group PBC reportedly hacked a popular code hosting service earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal detailed the breach today. The malicious activity was discovered by a research group that included Nightingale, an AI safety nonprofit. Last week, Night

Salesforce Inc. today introduced a series of artificial intelligence agents designed to make sales and technical support teams more productive. The agents are rolling out alongside a new version of Agentforce Coworker, an automation tool built into several of the company’s cloud services. Most of th

(Polyarc games press image) The Seattle-based video game developer behind the award-winning virtual reality adventure Moss has closed its doors. The announcement was made via Polyarc Games’ LinkedIn page on Friday afternoon. No specific reason was offered for the studio’s closure. “After nearly 12 y

Keith Rabois has spent most of his 13-year career in venture capital associated with Khosla Ventures’ longtime home in Menlo Park, California. But that’s changing. Speaking Thursday night at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in New York’s West Village, Rabois confirmed that Khosla Ventures is opening it

Enterprise observability is entering a new phase as artificial intelligence changes both the applications companies need to monitor and the way operations teams respond when something goes wrong. Traditional observability platforms were built around deterministic software and telemetry, such as logs

Shares of Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. closed 179% higher today following an initial public offering that raised 6.12 billion yuan, or about $912 billion. The listing drew particularly strong demand from retail investors. Such investors ordered 6,109 times more shares than the number Enflame had

A customer calling a support line doesn’t think about org charts. They don’t know or care whether they’ve reached the storefront, the billing department or the contact center, since to them it’s all just one continuous relationship with a brand. Most companies can’t deliver on that assumption today

Over the past couple of years, many companies have focused on increasing the share of contact center calls AI can handle without human intervention. That measure is starting to look too narrow, since the highest-value, most complex or most sensitive interactions are often the ones customers still wa