Amazon
Amazon is the e-commerce and cloud giant whose AWS unit is the world's largest cloud and a key AI infrastructure provider with Bedrock and Trainium chips. It is also Anthropic's biggest investor and is rebuilding Alexa around generative AI. All our Amazon and AWS coverage is on this page.
Cohere released an open-source transcription model — 2 billion parameters and 14 languages
Cohere released an open-source speech model for transcription: 2 billion parameters, support for 14 languages, and the ability to run on a standard consumer GPU.
Apple Music Playlist Playground: AI playlist generator that doesn't listen to prompts
The beta version of Apple Music's AI playlist generator returns irrelevant tracks even for specific prompts — YouTube Music handles the same task with noticeably…
Anthropic: paid Claude subscriptions doubled in early 2026
An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the number of paid Claude subscriptions more than doubled in 2026, with the overall audience ranging from 18…
Nuclear AI startup Fermi loses CEO and CFO suddenly — Texas project in question
Meta builds Hyperion data center: 10 gas power plants for one AI project
Intel Bets on Chip Packaging — and It Could Bring Billions
Anthropic expands compute contracts with Google and Broadcom amid revenue growth to $30 billion
Uber expands AWS contract and bets on Amazon chips, bypassing Google and Oracle
Uber expands its partnership with Amazon Web Services and moves key AI workloads for its ride-hailing business to custom Trainium and Inferentia chips, choosing AWS…
Anthropic launches Project Glasswing: new model found vulnerabilities in all major operating systems and browsers
Anthropic unveiled the closed Claude Mythos Preview model for cybersecurity in partnership with Nvidia, Google, AWS, Apple, and Microsoft.
Firmus, Nvidia-backed AI data center builder, reaches $5.5 billion valuation
Databricks Co-founder Matei Zaharia Won ACM's Top Award and Said AGI Has Already Arrived
OpenAI Publishes Child Safety Blueprint to Protect Children From AI-Enabled Sexual Exploitation
Elon Musk's partnership with Intel on Terafab chips raises more questions than answers
Allbirds Renames to NewBird AI, Pivots from Sneakers to GPU Rental
Allbirds, the sneaker brand valued at $4 billion, has decided to radically shift course: the company is becoming NewBird AI and entering the GPU computational power…
AI opens access to chip development — major players' monopolies under threat
Startups are using AI to automate chip design and optimize software for different hardware, targeting a market that for decades was controlled by only a few.