OpenAI has moved quickly to turn a burst of policy-driven uncertainty into something tangible for developers and enterprises: a limited preview of GPT-5.6, delivered less than a day after reporting indicated the company would stagger its next model release at…
AI’s political stakes are rising fast enough that the old framing—Anthropic versus OpenAI, model A versus model B, lab rivalry as the main story—has started to feel like a category error. The more capable these systems become, the less the…
University has always sold a promise: that time spent studying will translate into opportunity. But in the last few years that promise has been tested from every angle—by rising tuition and living costs, by shifting labour-market demand, by the growing…
Two weeks is a long time in AI—especially when the most capable systems in a company’s lineup are sitting idle. Anthropic’s Mythos-class models have remained offline since a Friday ultimatum from the Trump administration brought negotiations to a head, and…
If you’ve been meaning to attend the TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 but kept telling yourself you’d decide “soon,” tonight is the moment to stop negotiating with your calendar. TechCrunch is ending Early Bird pricing for the event at 11:59 p.m.…
US stocks are once again being pulled into the spotlight by a leadership change—one of those market catalysts that rarely moves prices in a straight line, but often reshapes how investors interpret everything that follows. The immediate reaction is usually…
DeepSeek’s next phase may be less about proving it can build frontier models and more about proving it can ship them—at scale, with speed, and with the kind of operational discipline that turns research breakthroughs into products people actually use.…
India’s AI boom has often been told as a story of scale: more data, more compute, more talent, more demand. But the next chapter—already visible in how companies are buying and building AI—looks less like a simple expansion of existing…
Britain’s AI story used to be told as a sprint: a burst of startups, a steady stream of research breakthroughs, and a sense that the UK—often dismissed as too small, too cautious, too far from the Silicon Valley machine—was finally…
Britain’s AI debate is shifting from a familiar question—how to compete with the US and China—to a more strategic one: how to win without trying to outspend them. In a conversation with AI minister Kanishka Narayan, the argument is blunt…
In a sign of how quickly AI deployment is moving from “innovation sprint” to “governance exercise,” the Trump administration has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its next-generation model, referred to in the report as GPT 5.6. Rather…
OpenAI’s next major model release is reportedly being reshaped behind the scenes—less by technical constraints than by timing, governance, and the politics of risk. Multiple reports indicate that OpenAI plans to slow down and limit the rollout of its newest…