
Inside Amazon's Trainium Lab - How It Beat NVIDIA
An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.

An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.

OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has laid out a two-stage plan to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2026 and a full AI researcher by March 2028, backed by $1.4 trillion in planned compute spending.

OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the startup behind Python's dominant uv package manager and Ruff linter, folding critical developer infrastructure into its Codex coding agent team.

Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano on March 17, bringing near-flagship performance at 70% and 92% lower cost respectively.

Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and six other tech companies signed a voluntary anti-fraud accord at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on March 17, 2026.