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Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale

Jabil's SAP IT director says simplifying integration across 100+ sites in 30+ countries with SAP Integration Suite created the data backbone for AI.

In an MIT Technology Review Business Lab podcast produced in partnership with SAP, Jabil SAP IT director Harish Manohar described consolidating fragmented tools across more than 100 sites in over 30 countries using SAP Integration Suite. The manufacturer, with 140,000-plus employees and more than 400 top-brand customers, says a standardized data backbone enables real-time supply chain visibility and is a prerequisite for scaling predictive, AI-driven planning and forecasting. The company frames simplification-first modernization as a competitive advantage tied to measurable business value and operational resilience.

MIT Technology Review · AISep 2, 14:00 UTC · 14d agoAI industry1

Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

Arm unveiled Mali G2-Ultra NX, its first AI-native mobile GPU with in-shader neural acceleration, third-gen ray tracing, and up to 24% higher benchmark performance.

Arm announced the Mali G2-Ultra NX, the first AI-native Mali GPU, integrating neural accelerators directly into shader cores alongside a new execution engine and third-generation hardware ray tracing. It introduces Neural Super Sampling (NSS), Neural Frame Rate Upscaling (NFRU), and Neural Super Sampling and Denoising (NSSD); the Neural Dawn demo with Sumo Digital showed up to 4x performance efficiency and 70% lower external memory traffic versus native rendering. Arm claims up to 24% higher benchmark performance, 13% lower DRAM traffic on ray tracing benchmarks, and up to 120 FPS with NFRU. Over 14 billion Mali GPUs have shipped to date.

Hacker News · AISep 8, 04:06 UTC · 9d agoAI industry HN 71↑ · 53 comments1

NVIDIA Brings Real-Time AI to Broadcast, Sports and Global Streaming at IBC

NVIDIA expanded its AI for Media suite at IBC 2026, adding NIM microservices for synthetic video detection, body pose, frame generation, upscaling and HDR.

At IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, NVIDIA announced a major expansion of NVIDIA AI for Media, a collection of GPU-accelerated SDKs, NIM microservices and blueprints for broadcast and streaming workflows. The Synthetic Video Detector (SVD) NIM microservice reaches 99.3% accuracy on text-to-video and 97.7% on image-to-video content, while Video Frame Generation boosts frame rates 2x-4x and Video Super Resolution adds 10-bit support; TrueHDR converts SDR to HDR at up to roughly 2,000 nits. Partners including Dalet, TwelveLabs, Wowza, Vizrt and Ross Video are integrating the new services into verification, compliance and live-production workflows.

NVIDIA BlogSep 9, 16:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment

d-Matrix will integrate its Raptor inference XPUs with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion, MGX racks and Spectrum-X networking for rack-scale AI factory deployment.

Inference chipmaker d-Matrix announced adoption of NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA's scale-up and scale-out networking, MGX rack architecture, and broader AI factory platform. NVIDIA claims 3x lower XPU-to-XPU latency than off-the-shelf Ethernet and 3 TB/s per-XPU all-to-all bandwidth via sixth-generation NVLink. d-Matrix plans to integrate Vera CPUs, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, BlueField-4 DPUs and Spectrum-X Ethernet, with racks able to work alongside Vera Rubin NVL72 GPU systems. Other NVLink Fusion partners include AWS, Arm, Intel, Fujitsu, Marvell, MediaTek, Samsung and Cadence.

NVIDIA Blogupdated Sep 16, 15:00 UTC · 21h agofirst Sep 10, 13:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry 2 sources

Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home

Google's Home MCP integration lets third-party AI agents like Claude control smart home devices and analyze home data.

Google launched Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol integration allowing third-party AI agents such as Claude, Google Antigravity, Hermes, and Open Claw to control devices and analyze event history across Google Home ecosystems. Capabilities include cross-camera analysis, device-state reasoning, voice messaging via Nest speakers, and custom dashboards, with rate limits and blocks on actions like unlocking doors. Availability starts with Google Home Premium Advanced users in the US ($20/month or $200/year) and requires setting up a Google Cloud project.

The Verge · AISep 16, 17:00 UTC · 19h agoAI industry 2 sources

Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace

Google rolls out Pics, a Nano Banana-based image creation and editing tool, to Workspace subscribers with integrations in Docs, Slides, and Drive.

Google Pics, built on the Nano Banana image generation model, is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and most Workspace business customers. Features include object segmentation, in-image text editing and translation, collaboration, and multiple generations per prompt. Integrations launched in Docs and Slides, with Drive support planned in the coming weeks.

Google · AISep 1, 16:00 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

Reimagining advertising with AI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT advertising features including Sponsored Agents, AI ad creation in Ads Manager, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents in the United States, letting users converse with clearly labeled business-sponsored agents after clicking ads in ChatGPT. Advertisers can create, update, and analyze campaigns via natural-language prompts in ChatGPT with an Ads Manager plugin, plus AI-suggested copy and imagery in Ads Manager. HubSpot becomes the first CRM partner and Shopify the first ecommerce partner, with the Shopify app expanding internationally on September 23.

OpenAI NewsSep 16, 13:00 UTC · 23h agoAI industry

Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation

Nvidia and Palantir integrated open Nemotron models and cuOpt into Foundry to run AI-driven supply chains, starting with Nvidia's million-part operation.

Nvidia and Palantir announced a partnership to run supply chains with AI, first deployed on Nvidia's own network of millions of parts and thousands of suppliers; a single Vera Rubin rack contains 1.3 million components. Palantir is integrating open Nemotron models into its Foundry platform for customer fine-tuning, while Nvidia cuOpt handles scenario planning and optimization, with decisions fed back to improve models over time. The stack runs on customer hardware or in the cloud through the Sovereign AI OS reference architecture with infrastructure partners Dell, Cisco, Rackspace, and Nebius, with more details shown at AIPCon 11.

The DecoderSep 10, 12:23 UTC · 7d agoAI industry1

Meta Releases Muse, a Personal AI Agent With Privacy ‘Built Into It’

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent on iOS, Android, WhatsApp, and web, with VM-isolated execution and prompt-injection protections.

Meta released Muse, a personal AI agent from Meta Superintelligence Labs that automates tasks such as sending email, booking travel, and making purchases, accessible via a dedicated app, Muse.ai, and WhatsApp. The agent runs in a Secure VM architecture that isolates untrusted web and integration data from the action-taking component, with a Sentinel system that routes human-in-the-loop approval prompts directly to users to resist prompt injection. Purchases use Stripe's Link single-use card numbers with no-fee return protections, and a future Confidential VM co-developed with Moxie Marlinspike will run in trusted execution environments with user-held keys. Meta added Muse to its public bug bounty with payouts up to $300,000, including up to $130,000 for single-user prompt injection findings.

WIRED · SecuritySep 8, 20:12 UTC · 8d agoAI industry

Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta launched Muse, a consumer AI agent powered by Muse Spark that connects to users' apps to execute tasks like emailing, booking travel, and payments.

Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent for US users that connects to email, calendars, payments, shopping, and other services to execute tasks such as booking travel, lowering bills, and completing purchases via Link by Stripe. The agent runs in a dedicated Muse Secure VM with a separate Sentinel agent kept apart at the system level, and Meta claims it cannot see passwords or payment data and does not share conversations with ad systems. Muse is free to start, with Power ($20/month) and Maximum ($100/month) subscription tiers, and is available on the web, iOS, Android, and WhatsApp, with Meta AI glasses support planned. The launch follows Meta's $18 billion multistate consumer-harms settlement and comes as rivals like Gemini Spark and Claude Cowork push agentic AI.

TechCrunch · AISep 8, 19:00 UTC · 8d agoAI industry 3 sources1

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

Analysis argues AI inference shifts data-center bottlenecks to memory and storage, urging balanced compute, memory, storage, and network architecture over raw compute.

MIT Technology Review, citing Tirias Research principal analyst Jim McGregor, argues that AI inference and agentic workloads make data movement the key constraint, elevating memory and storage from background hardware to strategic assets. The piece says RAG and real-time inference require continuous data retrieval and caching that legacy infrastructure cannot support. It frames infrastructure planning as a business decision balancing performance, efficiency, cost, and scalability in healthcare, finance, and customer-facing AI.

MIT Technology Review · AISep 4, 18:39 UTC · 12d agoAI industry

How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

OpenAI highlights Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs using AI agents for onboarding, account management, and developer integrations in enterprise workflows.

An OpenAI news post profiles AI-native companies Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs that use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. The piece positions these workflows as operating capability and draws lessons for enterprise leaders. It is promotional case-study content rather than product or research news.

OpenAI NewsSep 1, 17:00 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor

OpenAI cut off API access to coding tool Cursor after its SpaceX acquisition, citing contract violations by Elon Musk's companies.

OpenAI disabled Cursor's access following the closing of Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX, citing its experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts; Cursor responded that OpenAI accounts for only 5% of its traffic. The weekly digest also covers major open-weight releases: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 (744B total/40B active, 1M context) and Tencent's Hy4-preview (770B/49B, ~#5 on Code Arena WebDev), plus Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash (125B/6B). vLLM published benchmarks showing no universal winner among speculative decoding methods across model families.

Latent SpaceAug 29, 05:11 UTC · 19d agoAI industry1

Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code

New Relic study finds AI-generated code doubles critical runtime issues, with senior engineers losing a third of their week to fixes.

A New Relic survey of U.S. technology leaders reports AI now writes the majority of shipped code, with senior SRE and DevOps engineers spending up to a third of their week triaging and refactoring it. A large majority of organizations had at least one AI-related production failure in the past six months, and roughly three in ten saw newly introduced security vulnerabilities. AI-generated code showed nearly twice as many critical runtime issues as peer-reviewed human-authored code, with gaps concentrated in edge cases, concurrency, deprecated APIs, and complex state changes. Most teams now prompt AI tools to embed logs and traces directly into generated code.

Help Net SecurityAug 24, 04:22 UTC · 24d agoAI industry1

How Candidates Could Use AI for Good

Schneier and Sanders argue US candidates should use AI for broad listening and voter engagement, citing Japan's Team Mirai and civic tech tools.

Schneier on Security published an essay arguing candidates in the US midterms could use AI constructively rather than only for deepfakes and one-way messaging. It highlights Japan's Team Mirai party, whose AI interviewer has gathered over 300,000 messages across 16,000 interviews and helped the party win 12 Diet seats. Other cited tools include Scotland-funded CrownShy's Comhairle, deliberation.io, MIT's Cortico, Talk to the City, and Remesh. Higher Ground Labs launched a fund targeting AI-native campaign systems.

Schneier on Security11:06 UTC · 1h agoAI industry

Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 panel with Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland will examine how startups integrate AI agents into early teams.

A Builders Stage session titled "Hiring When AI Is a Co-Founder" at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (October 13-15, Moscone West, San Francisco) features Gusto CEO Josh Reeves, Insight Partners SVP Michelle Johnson, and Leland CEO John Koelliker. The panel will discuss how early-stage startups decide which work to delegate to AI agents versus human hires, covering ownership, accountability, and culture. Gusto serves more than 500,000 companies, and Johnson previously helped scale Flock Safety from under $1 million to $90 million in ARR. The piece doubles as event promotion with discounted registration before September 25.

TechCrunch · AI03:30 UTC · 9h agoAI industry

Snap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses

Snap unveiled new features for its $2,200 Specs smart glasses, including an anticipatory AI system and enterprise partnerships with Amazon, Salesforce, and Nvidia.

At a Los Angeles event, Snap showcased updates for its Specs smart glasses, which launched earlier in 2026 at $2,200 to a mixed reception. The headline announcement was Specs Intelligence, an "anticipatory AI" system that builds an understanding of user goals and routines and works with iPhones and Macs independently of the glasses. Snap also launched Specs for Enterprise with partnerships including Amazon, Salesforce, and Nvidia, an NBA/WNBA AR training app, and a Verizon cellular connectivity package costing $10/month for Verizon customers and $20/month otherwise. The devices will ship later this fall after an October pop-up in Los Angeles.

TechCrunch · AI00:58 UTC · 11h agoAI industry 2 sources

Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support

Amazon launched its generative AI Alexa+ assistant in India with Hindi support in Early Access, free for Prime customers after testing.

Amazon announced that Alexa+, its generative AI-powered conversational assistant, is now available in India in Early Access with Hindi and English support, including mid-sentence language switching and long-form context retention. The assistant handles multi-step tasks such as ordering groceries via Amazon Now and controlling smart home devices, with integrations including Swiggy, District, MakeMyTrip, EazyDiner, Amazon Music, and JioSaavn. It will be free for Prime members after the testing period and cost about $20.85 per month for non-Prime customers. Amazon is targeting India's 600 million-plus Hindi speakers, and says smart device adoption grew 20% year over year.

TechCrunch · AISep 16, 10:34 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Heart of the Matter: How a Major Children’s Hospital Uses Open Source NVIDIA AI for Cardiac Care

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia uses NVIDIA open-source MONAI, Warp and Newton to build pediatric heart models in seconds for surgical planning.

CHOP's cardiac modeling service uses MONAI, Auto3DSeg and SlicerHeart to turn CT, MRI and 3D ultrasound images into anatomically precise heart models in seconds instead of four hours of manual work. More than 20 US children's hospitals run similar programs, with Boston Children's supporting roughly 500 cardiac surgery cases a year. NVIDIA's Newton physics engine, built on the Warp Python framework, aims to reduce device simulations from hours to near real time in clinical workflows.

NVIDIA BlogSep 15, 09:00 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out

Musk voluntarily dismissed all antitrust claims against Apple but continues pursuing OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT-iPhone chatbot market monopolization.

Elon Musk filed court papers confirming all claims against Apple over its ChatGPT iPhone integration are resolved, agreeing never to raise them again. He refuses to drop parallel claims that OpenAI used the non-exclusive Apple deal to monopolize the chatbot market. OpenAI has dismissed the suit as harassment as Musk's AI firm, now called SpaceXAI, races to catch up.

Ars Technica · AISep 14, 19:45 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

Airrived adds Agentic Observability to track AI agent actions and risks

Airrived launches Agentic Observability to give enterprises end-to-end visibility into AI agent actions, permissions, data flows, and costs.

Airrived announced Agentic Observability, an expansion of its enterprise Agentic OS that traces the full agentic lifecycle from enterprise data ingestion through agent reasoning to business outcomes. The platform surfaces each agent's creator, owner, permissions, permitted actions, and human-in-the-loop approval requirements, and tracks movement of PII, PCI, and PHI across agentic workflows. It also adds token- and model-consumption tracking to turn AI spending into measurable AI FinOps.

Help Net SecuritySep 14, 10:51 UTC · 3d agoAI industry

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

25 Fields Medalists sign an open letter warning AI labs threaten math attribution; NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of pressuring him over collaborator credit.

Twenty-five Fields Medal-winning mathematicians signed an open letter arguing rushed AI proofs raise severe attribution and plagiarism questions and could destroy the culture of open research. NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of pressuring him not to credit an Anthropic-employed collaborator, and OpenAI withdrew sponsorship of a Caltech math event after researcher criticism. OpenAI's marathon-weekend proof remains unverified, and mathematicians fear their Codex usage may be fed into OpenAI's new models. The letter follows the June Leiden Declaration on LLM proofs.

TechCrunch · AIupdated Sep 12, 11:00 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 11, 20:57 UTC · 5d agoAI industry 2 sources

Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra

Cognition integrates GPT-6 Astra into Devin, its CLI, and desktop products to automate testing and provide evidence for code review.

OpenAI published a customer case study on Cognition, maker of the autonomous software engineer Devin, which serves customers from large banks to startups. Cognition uses GPT-6 Astra across its cloud agent, CLI, and desktop products; in one example, Devin uses Astra to test the iPhone game Otter Run and returns a simulator recording plus a report of passed checks and untested areas. Co-founder Walden Yan says Astra's ability to test and prove work functions as expected could reduce manual code review. The team also uses Astra to fix customer-reported bugs from screenshots and return verification screenshots faster.

OpenAI Newsupdated Sep 12, 20:00 UTC · 4d agofirst Sep 11, 16:00 UTC · 5d agoAI industry 7 sources1

Get ready for the game with new football features in Search

Google Search adds a Live Game Feed, deeper football stats, and Yahoo Fantasy/Sleeper integration with AI Mode for personalized fantasy insights.

Google rolled out football features in Search, including a Live Game Feed with play-by-play updates and AI-powered insights, available on mobile in the U.S. in English. New carousels show league-wide scores and expanded player stats such as sacks, fumbles, and yards after catch. Users can link Yahoo Fantasy or Sleeper accounts to receive start/sit and waiver-wire recommendations through AI Mode. Collegiate team support and broader global availability are planned later this month.

Google · AISep 9, 16:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot

Hands-on review finds Grok Bot simplifies agent setup via browser logins and bot abstraction, contrasting with the user-owned OpenClaw platform.

After five days with Grok Bot, the reviewer highlights browser-based sign-in as the key differentiator: connecting X, Freshdesk, and Google Calendar required only logins, no MCP configs or API keys. The piece contrasts Grok Bot's managed 'agent computer' with OpenClaw 2.0's user-owned Gateway, which now supports reusing Claude Code or Codex logins and ships a native Codex runtime. Grok Bot introduces 'Bots' as composable units arranged in 'group chats', exemplified by an Agentic Engineer Bot routing tasks across Claude Code, Codex, and Grok Build CLI. The reviewer used Grok Bot with a Cursor Pro+ account.

Latent SpaceSep 5, 15:01 UTC · 11d agoAI industry2

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

NVIDIA announces local AI push at IFA 2026 with faster llama.cpp/vLLM inference, PAIR routing tool, and October RTX Spark PCs.

At IFA 2026, NVIDIA announced simplified local AI support for agents in Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, and Perplexity Portable Computer, plus new llama.cpp and vLLM optimizations delivering up to 1.9x faster local inference. NVIDIA also unveiled PAIR, a Personal AI Router for distributing inference across a local network's PCs, and compact RTX Spark Windows PCs from Lenovo and Acer arriving in October. The post recaps recent local-capable model releases including Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek v4 Flash (284B MoE, 13B active), Meta Muse Glimmer (30B), Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash, LTX 2.5, and MiniMax-H3 with the FastH3 distilled variant.

NVIDIA BlogSep 3, 16:00 UTC · 13d agoAI industry

Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT

OpenAI announced ChatGPT integrations allowing healthcare organizations to connect EHR and industry data so clinicians can access patient context and research securely.

OpenAI said healthcare organizations can now connect electronic health records and other industry data sources to ChatGPT. The feature is aimed at letting clinicians securely access patient context and medical research within the assistant. The announcement was published on OpenAI's news site without disclosure of a new model release.

OpenAI NewsSep 1, 12:00 UTC · 16d agoAI industry

[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeno custom inference chip claiming 1.5-1.9x better perf-per-watt than NVIDIA GB200/GB300, deploying in-house by year-end.

At the 37th Hot Chips conference, OpenAI published first benchmark details for its custom Jalapeno inference chip, claiming 1.5-1.9x more work per watt, 1.7-3.6x lower end-to-end latency, and 2.1-4.1x higher interactive-workload performance versus NVIDIA GB200/GB300, with the 700W-rated part staying at or below 550W in tests. Deployment into OpenAI's own infrastructure begins by year-end, with Gen 2 deep in development and Gen 3 underway. OpenAI also said GPT-Astra and Codex helped write low-level kernels, reportedly 1.5-1.8x faster than human-expert code for selected attention and MoE blocks. Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX and Apple M6 were also featured at the conference.

Latent SpaceAug 27, 01:31 UTC · 21d agoAI industry

[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)

Latent Space AI news roundup: Steve Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks reports 60% higher coding spend on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI launches misalignment disclosure framework.

Latent Space's AI News digest for September 15-16, 2026 leads with Steve Yegge shutting down his Gas Town orchestrator despite spending thousands monthly on coding-agent subscriptions. Databricks rolled out GPT-6 Astra to roughly 3,500 engineers, reporting superior long-horizon performance over Opus 5 and Sol 5.6 but a ~60% increase in coding spend. OpenAI published a formal framework for disclosing model misalignment incidents with six case reports, while Microsoft and Google Research released safety papers on 'capability laundering' and the Fuse motive-inference benchmark. Xiaomi shared live RL training telemetry for MiMo-V2.6, estimated at $493k/day for the 1T-class Pro run.

Latent Space07:28 UTC · 5h agoAI industry

After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera

Meta is preparing camera-less Luna smart glasses with microphones and an AI button to access its chatbot and Muse agent, per reports.

The Information reports Meta is developing Luna, a camera-free smart glasses model with six built-in microphones and a side button that activates Meta's AI chatbot and its Muse consumer agent, possibly unveiled at next week's Meta Connect event. The move follows consumer backlash over camera-equipped glasses that critics called 'perv glasses.' Meta's Reality Labs continues to post large losses despite the smart glasses line's relative market success.

TechCrunch · AISep 16, 20:12 UTC · 16h agoAI industry

Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M

Hang Ten Systems, founded by ex-Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, added $53 million to its seed round, bringing total funding to $85 million.

The new round was led by Temasek's early-stage platform Xora with Mayfield participating, closing five weeks after the initial $32 million seed. Founded in May 2026, the Palo Alto startup advises enterprises with over $10 billion in annual revenue on AI strategy and builds production software using its in-house Hobie framework of reusable AI skills. It works with 21 major enterprises including Fresenius Kabi, Saudi Aramco, and Siemens Energy, and plans to expand engineering, consulting, and sales teams.

TechCrunch · AISep 16, 13:00 UTC · 23h agoAI industry

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

TechCrunch compiles a running list of failed AI products and startups, including Relay, OpenAI's Sora, Humane AI Pin, Notion Mail, and Microsoft's Recall.

TechCrunch's 'AI graveyard' tracks notable AI products and startups that shut down or underperformed, citing S&P Global data that about 42% of AI initiatives are abandoned. Examples include the Relay automation startup, OpenAI's Sora video platform (shut March 2026), ChatGPT Atlas browser (discontinued August 9), Notion Mail (shutting September 22), and Apple's delayed Siri AI that contributed to a $250 million settlement. Hardware failures include the Humane AI Pin ($230 million raised, assets sold to HP for $116 million) and the Rabbit R1, which sold 100,000 units but received poor reviews. Microsoft's Recall feature remains controversial after a researcher demonstrated a tool extracting its captured data.

TechCrunch · AISep 15, 19:00 UTC · 1d agoAI industry1

From Megawatts to Tokens: How NVIDIA Maximizes AI Factory Production

NVIDIA detailed DSX power-management results: Lambda gained 24% token throughput at fixed power, and an AI factory auto-shed 1MW via Emerald AI's grid program.

NVIDIA says Lambda's first validation of DSX MaxLPS on HGX B200 servers ran 19 nodes within a 16-node power budget, lifting cluster token throughput 24% (roughly 4M to 5M tokens/second) and improving performance per watt by 23%. NVIDIA projects DSX MaxLPS can enable up to 40% more GPU capacity for Vera Rubin NVL72 factories within the same megawatt budget. Emerald AI's Conductor platform, running at NVIDIA's Eos factory with Silicon Valley Power, responded to over 200 utility demand signals, automatically dropping power from 4MW to 3MW without interrupting priority workloads. The first dedicated DSX Flex commercial deployment is planned at a 96-megawatt Manassas, Virginia facility.

NVIDIA BlogSep 15, 16:55 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories

At AI Infra Summit, NVIDIA showcased Vera Rubin and DSX gains up to 1.4x tokens per megawatt, plus Annapurna, d-Matrix, and Pinterest partnerships.

Ian Buck's AI Infra Summit keynote before 8,000+ attendees emphasized validated agentic tokens per megawatt as the emerging AI infrastructure metric. Announcements include Amazon's Annapurna Labs collaborating on NVHBM custom high-bandwidth memory, d-Matrix integrating NVLink Fusion with Raptor XPUs, and Pinterest using Blackwell plus Dynamo inference software for conversational visual discovery. Lambda reported 23% better performance per watt with DSX MaxLPS on Blackwell servers, running 19 nodes on a 16-node power budget. NVIDIA says DSX MaxLPS combined with Groq 3 LPX on Vera Rubin NVL72 targets up to 35X token throughput per megawatt versus GB200 NVL72 for 2-trillion-plus-parameter models.

NVIDIA BlogSep 15, 16:55 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Musk verbally agreed to slow AI development; experts debate whether the pact advances safety or entrenches incumbents.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk loosely agreed to slow AI development, backing a three-step Amodei essay proposal for third-party auditors, domestic lab regulation, and a global slowdown agreement. Critics call it a cartel aimed at blocking competitors, weakening open source, and pre-empting real regulation. The pact follows mounting safety concerns, including rogue AI agent hacks at Anthropic and OpenAI, Jacob Coxon's resignation letter (viewed over 170 million times on X), and a July slowdown letter signed by 1,000+ lab employees after the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident. Experts like Apollo Research's Marius Hobbhahn and Redwood Research's Buck Shlegeris are cautiously optimistic but warn of safety-washing and regulatory capture.

The Verge · AISep 14, 22:59 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again

Apple's rebuilt Siri, powered by Google Gemini models in iOS 27, finally handles complex multi-step and on-screen-context requests, per TechCrunch review.

Apple's iOS 27 ships a redesigned Siri built on Google's Gemini models, supporting multi-step instructions, on-screen context, file/message/email lookups, and camera viewfinder queries. Siri AI gets a dedicated app with chat history, plus settings for voice and expressiveness. Apple Intelligence also adds natural-language Shortcuts creation and automatic password rotation in the Passwords app.

TechCrunch · AISep 14, 17:10 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 panel will discuss AI startup defensibility when OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google ship features startups built.

TechCrunch promotes a Builders Stage session at Disrupt 2026 (October 13-15, Moscone West, San Francisco) titled 'What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap.' Speakers include Airbyte CEO Michel Tricot, Radical Ventures partner Rob Toews, and Webflow CEO Linda Tong. The session examines how founders differentiate when foundation model providers absorb startup capabilities, emphasizing proprietary data, embedded workflows, customer relationships, and trust as remaining moats.

TechCrunch · AISep 14, 15:00 UTC · 2d agoAI industry1

Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work

Superhuman acquires AI notetaker Fathom to add meeting context and agentic workflows to its 40-million-user productivity platform.

Superhuman is acquiring Y Combinator-backed AI notetaker Fathom, which raised over $30 million and was valued at $94 million in 2024. Fathom reports 400,000+ monthly active users and over 1 million people have recorded meetings with it. The deal adds notetaking to Superhuman's suite (email, docs, calendar, database, AI agent builder) to enable proactive AI agents driven by meeting context, competing with Granola, Read AI, and Wispr.

TechCrunch · AISep 14, 14:45 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao, warn AI companies' benchmark-driven approach to mathematics is misaligned with the discipline's purpose of understanding.

In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners including Terence Tao, Peter Scholze, and Maryna Viazovska warn that AI systems solving major open problems at machine speed undermine conceptual understanding and raise severe attribution and plagiarism questions. The statement lands amid a controversy accusing OpenAI of training math models to beat researchers to a rumored partial solution of a Millennium Prize Problem. The signatories describe a general threat to intellectual work across professions and call for urgent action by mathematicians, AI companies, and society, while not seeking a ban.

The DecoderSep 12, 08:28 UTC · 5d agoAI industry1

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

System76 launches the Thelio Mira AI Linux workstation from $3,299 with dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs and 192 GB GPU memory for local AI workloads.

System76's Thelio Mira AI is a locally built (Denver, Colorado) Linux workstation for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference, starting at $3,299. Configurations go up to a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9000 CPU, 192 GB DDR5 RAM, and dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs delivering 192 GB of (ECC) GPU memory with liquid cooling, dual PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, and up to three M.2 NVMe drives. It ships with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu and is positioned as a way to avoid recurring cloud GPU costs.

Hacker News · AISep 10, 23:10 UTC · 6d agoAI industry HN 44↑ · 27 comments