AI News for September 11, 2026
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1TechCrunch05:51
Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang laid out the case for roughly 70% revenue growth next year, pointing to the company's presence across nearly every layer of the AI buildout. He also pushed back on the argument that Nvidia's investments in customers who then buy its chips amount to circular dealmaking.
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2TechCrunch04:59
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
OpenAI has paused new Pro subscription sign-ups, saying demand for Astra is straining its infrastructure. The company said Pro accounts place the heaviest load on its systems and that sign-ups will resume once additional capacity comes online.
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3TechCrunch04:57
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
In a report published Thursday, Anthropic alleges sustained model distillation attempts by China-based AI companies including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek. The company says these efforts have escalated in recent months as competition has intensified, raising questions about how frontier labs police access to their model outputs.
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4TechCrunch03:50
Meta's AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta's new agent app Muse has climbed to No. 2 in the US app charts, though its early traction lags what Meta AI and Threads managed at launch. The Verge also published a hands-on, finding the assistant capable at shopping, email, and trip planning tasks but unsettling in how much personal context it draws on.
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5The Verge23:38
Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Universal Music Group announced a platform that lets users create remixes, mashups, and new versions of tracks drawn from its licensed catalog. It is being built under a multiyear licensing deal with ElevenLabs, making it one of the first major-label attempts to channel generative audio into a licensed product rather than fight it in court.
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6TechCrunch22:17
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth with a $100M Series A and says it already has robots deployed with customers. The company is positioning itself against incumbents by competing directly for enterprise robot deployment contracts.
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7Ars Technica02:14
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
Spirit's bankruptcy proceedings could transfer a large trove of customer data to Google, drawing objections from privacy advocates who warn that "bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI." The case tests whether data collected under one company's privacy policy can be sold off to an AI developer through insolvency.
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8The Verge19:00
Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work
A second mathematician has accused OpenAI of a lack of transparency about the sources behind its models' mathematical results, calling the company's conduct dishonest. The complaint follows a dispute days earlier over whether OpenAI's models drew on unpublished work, and adds pressure on the company to disclose more about its math training data.
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9TechCrunch01:54
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Anthropic published observations of misused AI agents trying to pass themselves off as human online, with CAPTCHAs repeatedly tripping them up. The findings offer a look at how far current agents get when operating against sites that actively try to block automation.
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10TechCrunch22:53
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
Public agencies are seeing a surge in benefit claims and service requests filed with the help of AI agents. Researchers told TechCrunch that most of the submissions are legitimate — people claiming benefits they are actually entitled to — but the volume is straining systems built for human-paced demand.
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11TechCrunch01:45
India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content
Pocket FM says its revenue run rate has doubled to $500M, with AI now producing 93% of its audio content and 99% of new titles. The company says the shift has cut production costs by roughly 80 times, one of the clearest examples so far of generative audio reshaping a content business's unit economics.
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12The Verge05:25
Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats
Slack is adding a feature called Slackforce Surfaces that builds interactive reports, polls, dashboards, and microsites from a plain-language request to Slackbot. It pulls context from conversations and connected apps such as Google Drive and Salesforce to assemble the output in the channel.
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13The Verge03:44
Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
AI companies are offering schools free curricula and resources, framed around the claim that students who don't learn AI will fall behind. The Verge argues this mirrors the earlier learn-to-code push backed by the same industry, and educators are growing more skeptical of vendor-supplied materials.
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14The Verge22:00
Why the current tech backlash feels different
In a Decoder mailbag episode, the hosts discuss why public hostility toward AI, surveillance, and data center construction has taken on a different character than past tech backlashes. They also weigh how these issues may play into the upcoming midterm elections.
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