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OpenAI announced Wednesday that it had reached a multi-year agreement with AI chipmaker Cerebras. The chipmaker will deliver 750 megawatts of compute to the AI giant starting this year and continuing through the year 2028, Cerebras said. The deal is worth over $10 billion, a source familiar with the details told TechCrunch. Reuters also reported the deal size. Both companies said that the deal is about delivering faster outputs for OpenAI’s customers. In a blog post, OpenAI said these systems would speed responses that currently require more time to process. Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras, said just as…

As backlash intensifies against data centers nationwide, Microsoft says it has a plan.”We’ll pay our way to ensure our datacenters don’t increase your electricity prices,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, wrote in a blog post one day after President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he does not want Americans to “pick up the tab” for data center electricity costs. Microsoft, he said, was “first up.”The announcement comes amid an unprecedented data center construction boom across the US. Developers filed permits for 1,240 data centers in the US as of 2024 — roughly quadruple the level in 2010, according…

President Donald Trump wants credit card interest rates capped at 10%. At least one company has already moved to do so.Bilt Rewards announced a new suite of credit cards on Wednesday called “Bilt 2.0,” which will offers new cardholders 10% interest rates for their first year.Bilt is known for allowing users to earn rewards on rent and mortgage payments without the related fees associated with other credit cards.The company unveiled three cards, including:The Bilt Blue Card, with no annual fee;The Bilt Obsidian Card, with a $95 annual fee;The Bilt Palladium Card, with a $495 annual fee. After one year, interest…

AI agents are supposed to make work easier. But they’re also creating a whole new category of security nightmares.  As companies deploy AI-powered chatbots, agents, and copilots across their operations, they’re facing a new risk: How do you let employees and AI agents use powerful AI tools without accidentally leaking sensitive data, violating compliance rules, or opening the door to prompt-based injections? Witness AI just raised $58 million to find a solution, building what they call “the confidence layer for enterprise AI.”  Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan was joined by Barmak Meftah, co-founder and partner at Ballistic Ventures, and Rick…

Verizon outages are affecting tens of thousands of customers.The telecommunications company said it was aware of the problem but did not give further details.”Verizon engineering teams are continuing to address today’s service interruptions,” the company told Business Insider in a statement. “Our teams remain fully deployed and are focused on the issue. We understand the impact this has on your day and remain committed to resolving this as quickly as possible.”Downdetector, which provides real-time updates on various services and websites, showed that Verizon customers began reporting issues on Wednesday at about 12 p.m. Customer outage reports reached almost 180,000 by…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City nurses are striking for a third day Wednesday with both sides seemingly digging in for the long haul.Negotiations don’t appear to be on the table at the moment with any of the three major hospital systems affected by the walkout.Picketing nurses also held a rally at a Bronx hospital Wednesday in which their leaders took aim at hospital administrators for mischaracterizing their contract demands.Meanwhile the hospital systems say they’ve committed to keeping on the travel nurses they brought on to fill work gaps at least through next week.Here’s what you need to know…

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After pasting the problem into ChatGPT and letting it think for 15 minutes, he came back to a full solution. He evaluated the proof and formalized it with a tool called Harmonic — but it all checked out.  “I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they struggle,” Somani said. The surprise was that, using…

Kate, the Princess of Wales, is marking one year since publicly announcing that her cancer is in remission, another milestone in her journey since revealing her cancer diagnosis two years ago.It was on Jan. 14, 2025, that Kate released a statement on social media, writing, “It is a relief to now be in remission and I remain focused on recovery.””As anyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to a new normal. I am however looking forward to a fulfilling year ahead,” she continued at the time. “There is much to look forward to.”Isabel…

Google announced Wednesday the launch of a revamped Trends Explore page, now featuring Gemini-powered capabilities that automatically identify and compare trends related to your searches. The update is rolling out on desktop starting today. The Trends Explore page has long served as a valuable tool for content creators, journalists, and researchers, making it easy to analyze search interest for any topic over time, across regions, and by category. The new Gemini experience streamlines much of the manual work involved in exploring trending topics, reducing research time, and surfacing connections that users might otherwise overlook. The redesigned Explore page now features…

A new lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleges that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence app encouraged a 40-year-old Colorado man to commit suicide.The complaint filed in California state court by Stephanie Gray, the mother of Austin Gordon, accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of building a defective and dangerous product that led to Gordon’s death.Gordon, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in November 2025, had intimate exchanges with ChatGPT, according to the suit, which also alleged that the generative AI tool romanticized death.”ChatGPT turned from Austin’s super-powered resource to a friend and confidante, to an unlicensed therapist, and in late 2025,…