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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
NewsAugust 13, 20261 min read

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic after “nearly 9 years” at Google DeepMind. In a post on…

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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
NewsAugust 13, 20268 min read

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling…

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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
NewsAugust 13, 20263 min read

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable…

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
NewsAugust 13, 20262 min read

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient…

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Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
NewsAugust 13, 20267 min read

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

Siri’s AI overhaul may have been the headline announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, but Apple’s broader AI strategy is taking shape through a series of smaller…

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When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
NewsAugust 13, 20267 min read

When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?

Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify Anthropic recently took its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order from the Trump administration, prompting broad debates about AI policy and…

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TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance
NewsAugust 13, 20266 min read

TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free —…

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Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets
NewsAugust 13, 20261 min read

Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets

Polymarket has been paying online creators to post deceptive videos that show them making lucrative bets on the prediction market, according to a new investigation in The Wall Street Journal.…

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
NewsAugust 13, 20261 min read

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the…

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Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once
NewsAugust 13, 20267 min read

Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once

Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 to build weapons. The first one, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped with parts from Home Depot and Amazon, didn’t work out —…

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