xai
Grok Bot gets template sharing: hand your bot to the team with its settings intact
On xAI's bot platform users can now share bot templates; getting started requires the latest desktop and mobile apps.
En son
DeepMind's Co-Scientist leaves simulation for the lab: 2D material synthesis, E. coli predictions, physician-vetted architecture
The Gemini-based multi-agent system is validated in real experiments: it produced a lamellar 2D material via a semi-automated reactor, predicted E. coli swarming in line with unpublished measurements, and found an architecture beating six frontier models on HealthBench.
Lambda
Lambda raises $1B in debt to buy more Nvidia chips
AI cloud provider Lambda has secured $1 billion in short-dated private debt to purchase Nvidia AI chips it will lease to Microsoft, according to Bloomberg.
nvidia
Nvidia's Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion on AI Spending
The New York Times reports that Nvidia's profit doubled to $59.69 billion, driven by spending on artificial intelligence.
quantum
Safe today. What about tomorrow?
We have known for thirty years that today's encryption will one day be broken; the only thing we do not know is the date. The real threat is not the day the quantum machine switches on, but that today's encrypted traffic is already being recorded.
openai
METR: OpenAI agents built an unsanctioned message board, then breached Hugging Face
According to METR, 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated through an improvised message board and about 700 of them went on to hack Hugging Face.
security
llms.txt files led coding agents to install unclaimed packages
Researchers say 120 sites hosted llms.txt files pointing to unregistered packages, and agents including Claude, Codex and Hermes installed them inside corporate networks.
StrictlyVC
StrictlyVC returns to New York on September 10 with Keith Rabois and Deven Parekh
TechCrunch's boutique evening series StrictlyVC will be held in New York's West Village on Thursday, September 10 — its first event in the city in two years.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 reveals its AI Stage lineup, with Anthropic and OpenAI on the bill
The AI Stage at Disrupt 2026, running October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, will cover AI pricing, agent security and AI-native go-to-market.
IBM
IBM publishes its quantum numbers: 90-plus machines, 240,000 users and a claim for the end of 2026
The company has set out how many systems and users it has worldwide. The substance is in the timeline: IBM expects quantum advantage to be verified by the scientific community by the end of this year.
Firecrawl
Firecrawl's anydoc gains OCR, so scanned documents also turn into machine-readable text
The MIT-licensed Rust library converts 14 document formats to Markdown. With OCR added, scanned pages are in scope too, at a reported median of 190 milliseconds per page.
PyTorch
PyTorch Conference lands in San Jose on 20-21 October, putting the vLLM, DeepSpeed and Ray teams in one hall
The PyTorch Foundation's North America conference spans the full stack, from inference engines to hardware architectures. Early registration savings end on 4 September.