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Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.

Apple is going high-end with new ‘Ultra’ products next

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Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps

AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian's R2 Gambit

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”

The uncomfortable truth about hybrid vehicles

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The Ethics Imperative: Embedding Accountability into AI

Industry leaders explain why organisations embedding ethics into AI development will outpace those treating accountability as an afterthought

A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listen

The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.

Push for $40 smartphones builds momentum, but still faces cost hurdles

A coalition of telecom operators and device makers is pushing $40 smartphones to bring up to 20 million people online, but rising component costs threaten the plan.

Grammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual experts

A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech journalists, too.

OpenAI's Next "Low-Key Research Preview" is Codex, an AI Coding Agent.

From ChatGPT to Gemini: How AI is Rewriting the Internet

OpenAI’s head of robotics quit over the company’s Pentagon deal.

Caitlin Kalinowski posted on X that she resigned from OpenAI, saying the company’s contract didn’t do enough to protect Americans from warrantless surveillance and that granting AI “lethal autonomy without human authorization” was a line that “deserved more deliberation.”

OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal

Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.