In an episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, the hosts discuss what moratoriums on data center construction could mean. They also ask whether the AI industry is struggling to communicate, including whether dropping non-disclosure agreements could win over opponents.
Apple has disclosed a deal to hire the team of Huxe, a personalized podcast startup, and license its technology. TechCrunch asks whether Apple is looking at AI-generated podcasts.
TypeSafe, maker of the Jev AI model, is valued at $7.5 billion only weeks after launch. The company claims Jev runs much faster and uses far fewer tokens than large language models.
Olivia Moore of venture firm a16z sees a large opportunity in consumer AI. She says it depends on finding revenue beyond subscriptions and API fees.
A drop in visits to news sites in September has heightened publishers’ concerns about the rise of AI, particularly Google’s AI Overviews in search.
AI is now involved in every step of holiday planning, from inspiration to booking, and hotels, agencies and destinations are trying to adapt. Le Monde notes the questions it raises about errors, standardization, jobs and environmental cost.
The WTO has raised its 2026 forecast for global merchandise trade growth to 3.9%, driven by AI-related goods. These goods make up 14.8% of trade but 47% of its growth in value in the first half, with Asia dominating and Europe’s export share small.
InstaDeep, founded in Tunis in 2014, was bought by BioNTech in 2023 for up to £562 million, the largest acquisition of an African startup. It has since become the group’s AI engine, with the Kyber supercomputer and genomic models such as Nucleotide Transformer.
Startup Instinct launched its AI agent in August with an invite-only approach and almost no marketing, and it quickly drew praise for its text-message interface. The Verge asks whether it can withstand competition from Muse.
An analysis by The Media Leader of ACPM data shows the websites of 40 French news brands lost 22.9% of their visits in a year. The drop follows the rollout of Google’s AI summaries, although no direct link has been established.
Montreal has become a hub for AI, and some students and new graduates hope to benefit. Others fear their skills will quickly become outdated.
Three safety researchers fired by OpenAI deny mishandling sensitive information. In an open letter, they warn that their dismissal is having a chilling effect on the company’s safety culture.
Actor Ben Affleck has gone viral for his detailed knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. Earlier this year he sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix.
The company behind the LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, reaching a $3.1 billion valuation. It is now also measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
OpenAI’s annualized revenue had been reported at around $70 billion. A new report says the real figure is about $20 billion lower.
France’s SNJ journalists’ union has called a strike on Friday, Oct. 9, at the EBRA group’s nine daily newspapers. It is protesting a plan to cut nearly 10% of staff and make greater use of AI.
Samsung expects third-quarter operating profit of 107.4 trillion won, about $80.17 billion, up 782.5% year on year. Final figures are due on Oct. 29, but the estimate reflects strong demand for memory chips driven by AI.
Since AI became widely available in November 2022, hiring of 21- to 29-year-olds has shrunk in the jobs most exposed to it. The finding comes from a joint study by the Banque de France and an HEC-affiliated lab on the future of work.
Google has begun paying some websites whose content feeds its AI answers. Around a hundred sites benefit so far, without clear information on how the amounts are calculated.
After adding ads at the end of answers, ChatGPT will now display ads while it generates images. OpenAI is still testing the format.
Anthropic has expanded Claude for Startups with one free year for eligible young companies, covering up to five premium seats. They also receive $1,000 in API credits to build their own tools.
As of Oct. 6, 2026, the price of one million output tokens ranges from $0.50 (GPT-6 Luna) to $50 (GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1) across the 18 offers compared by ActuIA.
ActuIA has published a reference page listing French rulings on when a company must consult its works council (CSE) before deploying AI. It also covers the regulatory timeline.
DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan (€10.6 billion), well above its initial target, with Tencent and CATL leading, according to Bloomberg, which expects an IPO in early 2027. The lab is reportedly excluding private funds raised from individuals.
Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect OpenAI’s frontier models with companies’ internal knowledge. The aim is to help teams plan, build and deliver their work.
NVIDIA says telecom operators increasingly build their AI strategies on open models, which give them more control and customization for network automation and customer care. The claim draws on NVIDIA’s latest State of AI in Telecommunications report.
According to the third edition of Coface’s Data & AI barometer, six in ten French companies still have no formal framework governing their use of AI.
An MIT Technology Review piece argues that enterprise AI agents often lack knowledge rather than data. They need to understand what data means in each organization’s context to reason and make decisions.
On Oct. 2, 2026, Oracle said it would buy part of the output of the Point Beach nuclear plant in Wisconsin. The move is meant to save customers about $300 million in fuel costs, illustrating the debate over who pays for AI data centers’ power.
An MIT Technology Review piece argues that the question for enterprises is no longer whether predictive models work. The challenge is letting them act on their own conclusions without drifting from business goals.
OpenAI has introduced a new visual ad format in ChatGPT. It is also expanding measurement tools, attribution partnerships and brand-safety options for advertisers.
An MIT Technology Review article explores the contradiction between public hostility toward AI and its heavy use. It opens with Springboards, a startup building a model meant to give more varied answers than its mainstream rivals.
An MIT Technology Review piece says enterprise AI is now fully operational, with model capabilities advancing faster than companies can adopt them. It cites a forecast that global AI investment will reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% on the previous year.
NVIDIA estimates that each megawatt of AI data center capacity costs about $60 million to build. The company sets out the factors it says determine the return on such investments, starting with earning capacity.
At its Fully Connected event in San Francisco, CoreWeave announced it is bringing NVIDIA’s next-generation infrastructure into production. The two companies have worked together on AI cloud infrastructure for nearly a decade.
OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC network to offer small businesses hands-on AI training and local support. It also released a report on how small teams use AI.
OpenAI is expanding its support for the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program, which works with news organizations. It is providing $5 million in funding plus up to $5 million in software credits and engineering help.
NVIDIA held its AI Day in Singapore on Sept. 22-23 with training sessions and expert talks on AI and high-performance computing. The company and its partners showcased AI projects from across Southeast Asia.
OpenAI is extending ChatGPT Ads to Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Eligible businesses can now advertise to users in more than 60 countries.
OpenAI and Grab have launched GO Forward with AI, a regional program to teach practical AI skills. It targets 30,000 Grab partners across Southeast Asia.
Jun Kim, who created and maintains oMLX, is joining Hugging Face. His role will focus on supporting the community around MLX, Apple’s machine learning framework.
Google has added new experts to its AI & Economy research program, which studies the economic impact of artificial intelligence.
OpenAI is introducing new AI-based advertising formats, including Sponsored Agents and tools for marketers. The company also announced integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
OpenAI explains how analytics in ChatGPT Work and Codex help companies track AI usage and spending. The tools are meant to reveal training needs and link adoption to business results.
New economic research from OpenAI looks at how workers use AI for tasks outside their usual roles. It also identifies which of these new activities become a regular part of their jobs.
Google has published new findings from its AI & Economy Atlas, a project tracking the economic effects of artificial intelligence. The post presents version 1.0 of the atlas.