OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to visit India in mid-February, his first visit to the country in nearly a year, TechCrunch has learned. The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit that is expected to attract top executives from Meta, Google and Anthropic. India hosts its first major AI event:…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is also entering the race 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, Italy, which runs through February 22, bringing a layer of artificial intelligence to an event long defined as a showcase of human performance. From athlete training and broadcast production to fan engagement and judging, AI systems are increasingly integrated into the…
Investment from hyperscalers is increasing, vacancies have all but disappeared and AI is pushing demand for data centers well beyond traditional hubs – but questions remain about power, people and long-term returns as development ripples through secondary and tertiary markets. In summary, what you need to know: Mega construction – Hyperscalers’ spending on AI infrastructure…
Heterogeneous computing is quietly redefining how AI appears in everyday devices, bringing intelligence closer to where people actually use it rather than keeping it locked in remote cloud systems. As AI expands into physical products, success depends less on raw performance and more on how efficiently CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs work together. Heterogeneous computing manifests…
OMNI Compute is a unified compute marketplace that allows businesses to access, provision, and operate GPUs in any cloud or region, with no code changes required. MIAMI, January 12, 2026–(BUSINESS FEED)–Cast AI, the leading application performance automation platform, was introduced today OMNI calculationa unified compute control plane that automatically discovers available resources across cloud providers…
“Soil health is not an abstract sustainability goal,” says Hunter Swisher. “It’s a systemic strategy to produce what the world needs with the resources we have.” In other words, it’s about working with what nature already provides to produce food, rather than relying on an endless supply of synthetic inputs to get the job done….
AI chatbots can answer questions and summarize documents, but they are still designed for one user at a time. Now a new startup called Humans& is betting that coordination, not conversation, is the next major frontier in artificial intelligence. Founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Google DeepMind, the three-month-old company just raised…
A joint essay with Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Jonas R. Kunst, based on a new paper on swarms with 22 authors (including myself) who just published in Science. (A preprinted version is hereand you can see WIRED’s coverage here.) Automated bots spreading misinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media, and…
Among the hundreds of new laws taking effect in California this year are those regulating artificial intelligence. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California leaders say new state laws governing artificial intelligence and social media companies remain in full force, even if the Trump administration moves to block state-level oversight in favor of a single federal standard. Among…
We may not have a killswitch for AI as a whole, but Mozilla gives users the option to disable AI in its Firefox browser (even though it could have simply not included these features in the first place). In a blog postthe company announced that it would include a toggle in the next version of…