Like a real-life episode of “Suits,” the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry this week. And now Silicon Valley has entered the picture. Two-year-old AI-first law firm Crosby has put in a bid to buy some of the assets of Weil…
Andy Alder and Arjun Mather were Stanford roommates who both studied computer science before spending a decade at Palantir. Alder led product design for a team of 800 people building software for U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, while Mather served as a senior vice president in the company’s commercial practice. When the friends decided to…
I am scheduled to die on August 10, 2060, at the age of 74. So says my iPhone screen, where Death Clock, an AI-powered longevity app that predicts life expectancy based on your medical habits and lifestyle, has produced an image of a smiling grim reaper to celebrate my expiration date. There he was one…
Google’s Chrome browser is getting an update that will improve its autofill capabilities using AI. On Wednesday, the company said that Chrome will get an advanced version of autofill that will help users fill out online forms with suggestions pulled from their Gmail. That means Chrome could suggest things you might need to know, like…
People will find out when they produce fake images to the court that they are committing perjury and they will go to prison, just as if they’d forged a will. I think we need to be cautious about predicting disaster. I’m very optimistic. You’ve previously described an “inevitable” future where simpler civil cases are adjudicated…
As the AI boom strains computing capacity, Nvidia has backed Indian startup Simplismart in a $14 million funding round, betting on software that helps companies run AI models more efficiently and, in some cases, with fewer GPUs. Nvidia participated in the all-primary Series B round alongside Accel, Shastra VC, and Micromax, with Dallas Venture Capital…
Canadian AI company Cohere said on Monday that it found one of Alibaba’s newest AI models, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, trying to upload a file to a server in Beijing during a routine cybersecurity test, even though the model had said in its own notes that it wouldn’t use any tools. The incident initially raised fears that the…
As footage of ICE raids, deportations, and protests flooded social media feeds throughout the summer of 2025 and into the following year, Eduardo Maytorena wasn’t sure what his team should do. At the time, Maytorena was the LA station general manager for the broadcasting giant Entravision, which features programming in Spanish and English for Latino…
AI hasn’t benefited the bottom line of any big corporations outside the tech industry, according to a note recently published by the chief economist at Apollo Global Management (the private equity giant that used to own TechCrunch). Apollo’s Torsten Slok focuses on what he calls the S&P 493 — the S&P 500, minus Alphabet, Amazon,…
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. As security teams and web admins scrambled this week to patch newly public PHP bugs, criminal hackers quickly attempted…
