The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time,…
The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.
When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime — blood results, scan data,…
Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war
As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet…
The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t
There’s a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm…
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the…
The Best Platform for Learning Programming in 2026 Isn’t What You Think
Every year, millions of students open YouTube, find a Python tutorial, watch three hours of someone else coding,…
Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
Anthropic isn’t hiding its frustration. “We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause…
Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report
If you doubted his genius, doubt no more.
Mira Murati steps back into the spotlight, carefully
In the current environment, remaining heads down has diminishing returns; at some point, you have to make some…