Category AI

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

While K3’s usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted…

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence