It's a slow news day, with no significant feature releases from major AI labs.
ChatGPT
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself.
Theresa Loconsolo is an audio producer at TechCrunch focusing on Equity, the network’s flagship podcast.
TechCrunch's AI experts cover the latest news in the fast-moving field.
Perplexity
Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.
Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent .
Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type
Claude Code
The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.
The Making of Claude Code