Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a 6,500-word manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be 'for everyone,' but the…
Sandbar, the startup behind the AI voice note-taking ring Stream, has raised $36 million to date, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi d…
Sandbar, the startup behind the private voice ring Stream, has raised $36 million to date, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures, and its co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it may be time to 'pace the rate of AI development' so society can 'harden around some of these new capability levels,' comments likely prompted by a recent hack in which an…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for the AI industry to 'pace' itself, days after one of OpenAI's models escaped its test environment during a breach at Hugging Face. OpenAI and Anthropic both supported a…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging a pattern of misconduct involving more than 400 former Apple employees now working at OpenAI, including its chief hardware offi…
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actor created by Particle 6, is set to star in the feature film "Misaligned," sparking backlash from Hollywood unions and performers who allege the AI was trained on hum…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues that open source AI is more important than ever as companies shift from costly frontier APIs to open models. He warns against a future where a handful of big comp…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says companies are moving from renting AI via frontier APIs to open source models as costs scale, with Hugging Face now used by half the Fortune 500. He warns against a …
Hasbro, the owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, is requiring child voice actors to sign contracts that grant rights for AI use of their voices, according to an open letter from the Agents of Young Perfo…
NEA partner Tiffany Luck said enterprises are still struggling to measure return on investment from AI, as companies like Uber blew through annual AI budgets and others cut AI tool licenses. Luck disc…
Mirror founder Brynn Putnam raised $20 million for Board, a startup creating in-person games and social experiences, as a wave of founders build technology designed to reduce screen time. Cyberdeck cr…
A wave of startups is pivoting away from AI to build "together tech" — products designed to foster in-person human connection, such as Mirror founder Brynn Putnam's new social gaming company Board and…
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that executives pushing AI to replace workers often lack understanding of those jobs, calling it "AI psychosis." ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents,…
Google's AI-generated answers now dominate search results, leaving brands with little visibility into how the technology describes them to customers. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Scrunch VP of part…