Kyle Wiggers

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Technology journalist. Senior AI/Enterprise Reporter @TechCrunch ([email protected]). Signal: kyle.901 Pronouns: he/him.

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OpenAI's Stargate project sets its sights on international expansion

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Rebecca Szkutak |Kyle Wiggers

Stargate, a $500 billion project headed up by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank to build AI data centers and other AI infrastructure in the U.S., is considering investments in the U.K. and elsewhere overseas, according to a Financial Times report. While Stargate was initially launched as a way to boost U.S. AI infrastructure, the project is allegedly weighing international expansion. In addition to the U.K., Germany and France are on the table, per the Financial Times’ reporting.
Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Maxwell Zeff |Kyle Wiggers

The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips, and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The restrictions are part of the Trump administration’s effort to compete with China on AI.
Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Aisha Malik |Kyle Wiggers

During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then called Facebook, offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time said that the dollar amount was $3 billion).
Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps. Called Grok Studio, the feature was announced on X late Tuesday. It’s available for both free and paying Grok users on Grok.com“Grok can now generate documents, code, reports, and browser games,” wrote the official Grok account on X.
Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Kyle Wiggers

14 hours agoHere's what I learned from a 90-minute video series that helped me use generative AI for work and everyday life. As an eager learner of all things related to artificial intelligence, I'm always excited to try out any new AI tool or product I come across and provide you with honest feedback about …
OpenAI may 'adjust' its safeguards if rivals release 'high-risk' AI

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

In an update to its Preparedness Framework, the internal framework OpenAI uses to decide whether AI models are safe and what safeguards, if any, are needed during development and release, OpenAI said that it may “adjust” its requirements if a rival AI lab releases a “high-risk” system without comparable safeguards. The change reflects the increasing competitive pressures on commercial AI developers to deploy models quickly.
Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

In a sign of Anthropic’s increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring for several months ago, aims to “accelerate” the adoption of Anthropic’s AI among AWS accounts by “building programs that […] scale across global markets and segments.” That’s according to job listings on Anthropic’s website and job boards around the web.
Google's Veo 2 video generating model comes to Gemini

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

Google is bringing its Veo 2 video-generating AI model to users who pay for Gemini Advanced, the company’s premium AI plan. The expansion comes as Google looks to deliver an answer to OpenAI’s Sora video generation platform, and as competition in the space grows fiercer. Two weeks ago, one of the more formidable synthetic media companies, Runway, released the fourth generation of its video generator and raised more than $300 million in new capital.
Debates over AI benchmarking have reached Pokémon

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavendar Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late February.
Rippling is trying to serve Deel’s CEO, but bailiffs can’t find him

1 week ago | techcrunch.com | Charles Rollet |Kyle Wiggers

HR tech startup Rippling is trying to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz with papers as part of a blockbuster lawsuit against its competitor. There’s just one problem: French bailiffs hired by Rippling can’t seem to find Bouaziz, Irish newspaper Business Post reports. Rippling sued Deel earlier this year in Ireland alleging the company paid one of its employees to spy on them, according to the lawsuit that includes an affidavit from the alleged spy which reads like a movie. Deel denies all wrongdoing.