Signalβs Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots βare not your friendsβ TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 20 June 2026 at 21:32 "These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.β
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 20 June 2026 at 20:41 So ... what's your In the Weights score?
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 20 June 2026 at 17:39 Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
UK may ban social media for children under 16 TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 14 June 2026 at 21:17 The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride? TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 14 June 2026 at 17:38 Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 13 June 2026 at 21:42 Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 13 June 2026 at 20:11 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.
OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general TechCrunch By: Anthony Ha 13 June 2026 at 17:47 It's not clear which states are involved, but they're asking about everything from OpenAI's ad policies to its handling of health data.