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📍 Oct 10, 2026 · Saturday

● Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled co…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-10 00:56

● Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled co…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-10 00:53

● We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?

"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in ret…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-10 00:40
📍 Oct 9, 2026 · Friday

● Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier thi…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-09 02:20

● Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-09 02:19

● OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-09 02:19

● Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models,…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-09 02:18

● Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference

Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new ru…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-09 02:16

● USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI

USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as r…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-09 01:58

● Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons developmen…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-09 01:15

● How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Source: OpenAI Blog · 2026-10-09 00:00

● Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost

Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model …

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-09 00:00