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Jensen Huang is so over the dire predictions of AI leaders like Dario Amodei

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said industry leaders need to be more "mindful" of how they talk about the potential impact of AI.

Executive Briefing: What Stripe Sessions 2026 actually means for how you sell

Stripe spent its 2026 Sessions conference announcing a stack of agent commerce infrastructure, and the consensus reading is already locked in: agents can now spend money. That reading is accurate, legible, and incomplete. The stranger thing, and the more important one, is that Stripe is preparing for a version of the internet in which the seller no longer controls the place where buying begins.

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the source of the fire in an attempt to put it out.

BCG official says companies 'need to start the pump' on spending AI tokens

BCG's Sylvain Duranton said companies should understand the risk of holding back too much in the "tokenmaxxing" era.

This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the past few days, featuring the likes of NVIDIA, Google Cloud, OpenAI and Siemens

Why a Canadian bank is trying to predict earthquakes with quantum computers

BMO has filed a provisional patent on a quantum algorithm for seismic forecasting, and is sending mobile branches to wildfire zones with AI dispatch. The bank says it is the future of risk.

AI chipmaker Cerebras targets up to $4bn IPO at $40bn valuation

After a CFIUS-induced retreat in 2024, the wafer-scale chip startup is back with an OpenAI deal in its pocket and a sharper bet against Nvidia.

Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.

Meta bought some help in its quest for humanoid robots

Meta is making another push toward robotics with its acquisition of Assured Robot Intelligence, a small San Diego-based startup.

Replit's Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he'd rather not sell

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?

The organization behind the Oscars says that only humans can get acting awards.

“Only roles credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent will be considered eligible,” according to the rules for the 99th Academy Awards, which air in 2027. (Sorry, Tilly Norwood.) Screenplays eligible for writing awards must also be “human-authored.”

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.