Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
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No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday…
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions.
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once. Its research license bars commercial use, which requires a separate…
Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background
Tencent's Gander processes speech, images, and text while handling tasks in the background. A "cerebellum" keeps the conversation going, while a swappable "brain" searches files, writes code, or tackles other complex work. Users can interrupt or change the task mid-conversation.…
Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the…
Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the…
Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Surveys by Epoch AI and Ipsos suggest AI is becoming part of everyday life for more Americans. The share of US adults using AI almost daily more than doubled between March and August 2026, rising from 8 percent to 19…
Trump announces "AI Force" and plans for an "AI czar" as he pushes unchecked AI growth
Trump announces an "AI Force" modeled after the Space Force and plans to appoint an "AI czar" with a "high IQ." He claims AI could reach 25 percent of US economic output, rejects new regulation, and frames criticism of data…
Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO
Anthropic is reportedly delaying its IPO from October to November 2026 to present strong Q3 results. Investors expect a roughly $2 trillion valuation, but rising infrastructure costs, including $1.25 billion a month for its SpaceX deal alone, and unresolved security…
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Interpretation Model That Cuts Average Lag to 2.3 Seconds Across 60 Languages
Qwen has released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a real-time simultaneous interpretation model built on a new Interleave architecture. It cuts average lagging (LAAL) from 2.8 seconds to 2.3 seconds. It also adds real-time speaker diarization with stable voice cloning, synchronized bilingual display, and…