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TechCrunch Found Harmful Outputs From Abliteration.ai’s Guardrail-Removed GLM-5.3

The startup’s modified model supplied password-theft and pathogen-related guidance in a free test. For purchases, its customer checks reportedly extend only to logging the payment card, even as it adds limited controls.

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Yesterday

9 stories

Funding Infrastructure

Crusoe Reportedly Raises Over $3 Billion at a $30 Billion Valuation

The financing would put a far larger private-market mark on the AI infrastructure company. Its ability to turn customer demand into delivered cloud and data-center capacity remains the operating test.

8 hours ago

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Partnership Business

Tesla Asks Businesses About Buying and Running Cybercab Fleets

The outreach broadens the possible ways companies could participate in Tesla’s robotaxi network. It does not establish that Tesla will sell Cybercabs to outside operators or reveal the commercial model.

10 hours ago

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Funding Startups

Ollie Adds SOC 2 Credential for Family AI, With Messages Retained Up to 24 Months

The certification supports Ollie’s bid to manage household schedules and errands. Its privacy policy sets the operating tradeoff: messages may go to model providers, and users must request earlier deletion to shorten retention.

12 hours ago

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Partnership Infrastructure

Realta Fusion Gains Utility Investment and Grid Support for 200-MW Wisconsin Plant

The proposed mid-2030s plant pairs Realta’s early power-conversion work with utility help on siting, permits, interconnection and financing—steps that can advance a future project before construction begins.

13 hours ago

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Enterprise adoption Products

Tesla Teases a Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Event as Its Robotaxi Scale Remains Unproven

The Austin event will test whether Tesla can turn a two-seat vehicle without manual controls into a broader service, rather than another tightly bounded robotaxi demonstration.

13 hours ago

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Funding Startups

Thinking Machines Reportedly Seeks $1B at a Valuation of at Least $40B

The proposed financing would put a far higher price on Mira Murati’s AI lab than its last round, while leaving the final valuation, investor commitment and close unresolved.

13 hours ago

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Launch Products

Google Launches Voice AI in Gmail, Docs and Keep, With Business Access Still Ahead

The release moves Google’s I/O preview into consumer products, but access is split by subscription tier and Workspace business customers remain on a later timetable.

16 hours ago

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Launch Models

Google Puts WeatherNext 3’s Hourly AI Forecasts Into Search, Maps and Gemini

The launch moves an observation-led weather model from Google’s research stack into consumer products and cloud data tools. Its performance claims are substantial, while Google directs users seeking official severe-weather warnings and public-safety advisories to meteorological agencies.

18 hours ago

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Launch Products

Zoox Adds Las Vegas Airport Rides Before Rival Robotaxis Can Serve the Terminals

The Amazon-owned company says riders can be picked up near baggage claim, while newly approved competitors still need separate airport authorization before they can serve Harry Reid International Airport.

20 hours ago

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Earlier this week

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Acquisition Business

Adobe Acquires Rilo and Will Shut Down Its AI Marketing Workflow Platform

Rilo’s plain-English workflow builder will disappear for customers after the deal, while Adobe takes its technology and team into a larger marketing-software business.

Yesterday

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Launch Products

Amazon Adds U.S. Alexa Tool to Verify Calls, Texts and Emails

Alexa for Shopping can confirm an official Amazon communication, reject a match, or leave it unresolved—so a nonmatch is not presented as a definitive scam ruling.

Yesterday

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Partnership Infrastructure

Google Agrees to Buy 396 MW of Geothermal Power for a Planned Utah Data Center

The agreement gives Fervo a defined customer for Cape Station while tying Google’s future data-center supply to a geothermal project still under construction.

Yesterday

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Funding Startups

HiddenLayer Raises $100M for Runtime Controls on Enterprise AI Agents

The startup is funding a security layer meant to observe and intervene as agents use enterprise tools. Its test is whether buyers will keep purchasing that layer independently of the platforms hosting their AI.

Yesterday

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Government action Policy

Trump Administration Backs OpenAI’s Fair-Use Defense in New York Times Case

The government’s intervention puts U.S. competitiveness, scientific progress and national security beside a copyright dispute over training data. The filing may carry weight, but it does not decide whether OpenAI’s use was lawful.

Yesterday

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Funding Startups

Empirik Emerges With $21M to Check Infrastructure Changes Before Deployment

The Sequoia-incubated startup wants to calculate a proposed change’s reach before it runs, then block or escalate risky work. Its central test is whether enterprises will trust those assessments in production.

Yesterday

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Lawsuit Business

OpenAI Faces 30 New Lawsuits Over Alleged Failure to Alert Police Before Tumbler Ridge Shooting

The filings put OpenAI’s internal threshold for reporting threats, its account controls and its decision-making chain at the center of a growing legal fight.

Yesterday

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Funding Startups

AIR Raises $50M for Continuous Checks on AI-Agent Add-Ons

The startup aims to stop enterprise agents from consuming risky tools and external content after approval—not only before it. Its early commercial metrics are company-reported.

Sep 1, 2026

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