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Meta is expanding Threads' podcast features, letting users share show transcripts, save episodes for later, and view analytics on clicks and saves. Podcast creators can also get reminders to share new episodes, and posts can display video clips, transcripts or tagged guests to promote a show.
TechCrunch has set a September 18, 11:59 p.m. PT deadline for startups to reserve exhibit tables at Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Exhibitors get a table in the Expo Hall, 10 team passes, app and website branding, press-list access, and Silver Tier sponsor status.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC that the tech industry has done a 'tone deaf' job explaining AI to the public, allowing misinformation to spread instead of focusing on real risks. He said the conversation should move past dramatic 'Terminator' scenarios and toward practical concerns, stressing that public understanding is key to managing the technology responsibly.
Berkshire Hathaway repurchased $4.5 billion of its own shares as Greg Abel prepares to take over from Warren Buffett as CEO. The move signals confidence in the company's future value without Abel making any public statements about his leadership plans.
Investors have approached OpenAI proposing a fresh funding round that could value the company at $1.2 trillion, though no formal talks have begun, according to people familiar with the matter. Some backers see the round partly as a mechanism for employees to sell shares, similar to the roughly $7 billion secondary sale OpenAI completed in August following its $122 billion raise at an $852 billion valuation in March.
SK Hynix is in talks with Intel about producing RAM chips in the United States, according to a Reuters report citing unnamed sources. Options under discussion include leasing space at Intel's planned Ohio plant or forming a joint venture, possibly with cloud-service providers involved, though SK Hynix says no final decisions have been made.
The Information reports Apple is developing a new line of enterprise servers, its first since discontinuing Xserve in 2011, aiming to capitalize on surging demand for AI compute power. The machines are expected to use two or four M8 Ultra chips, a processor generation still years from release, putting a launch around 2029. Reports also suggest Apple may adopt Nvidia's NVLink Fusion interconnect technology to link multiple chips together.
Hang Ten Systems, the AI startup started by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka just four months ago, has raised an additional $53 million just five weeks after closing its $32 million seed round. The new round was led by Temasek's Xora, with participation from Mayfield, Aramco Ventures, and individual backers including Intel's Lip-Bu Tan, Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra, and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, pushing total funding to $85 million.
In an interview, a Syensqo executive described a 'performance pyramid' framework, where commodity materials sit at the bottom and high-performance specialty materials sit at the top. He explained that AI's rapid advancement is piling on technical requirements—heat tolerance, purity, electrical performance, chemical and plasma resistance, long-term stability—that push semiconductor and data center materials toward the top of that pyramid, an area where Syensqo focuses its work.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly dismissed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal for antitrust exemptions that would let AI companies coordinate a slowdown in development, calling it unnecessary. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar separately said she isn't concerned about pausing AI progress, arguing the intelligence already built is substantial enough to matter even if development stopped now.
A young boy with hepatoblastoma that had spread to his lungs and stopped responding to chemotherapy achieved complete remission after receiving an experimental CAR-T cell treatment. The therapy, part of the CARE study, engineered the patient's own immune cells to target glypican-3, a protein found on liver cancer cells, while also boosting the cells' potency with two added immune signaling proteins. Twelve months after treatment, doctors report no detectable trace of the cancer.
Medical apparel retailer Scrubs & Beyond is shutting down every one of its more than 100 physical stores spread across 30 states. The company has given no public reason for the closures, and as of Wednesday its customer service phone line had been disconnected.