TechCrunch published a comprehensive AI glossary defining key terms like AGI, AI agents, API endpoints, and chain-of-thought reasoning to help readers navigate the rapidly evolving field of artificial…
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to build AI systems that understand the physical world, arguing that current large language models cannot achieve human-level int…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, admitting that the company's AI-focused restructuring has not yet yielded the anticipated benefits. Meta …
Meta has soft-launched a new app called Pocket that lets users create generative AI minigames through vibe-coding, available on iOS and Android since June 29 but not yet in the US. The app, which uses…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Thursday that the company's AI agent development has moved slower than expected, a rare internal admission as Meta invests up to $145 billion in AI infrastructu…
Content creator Ben Guez uses the open-source AI agent OpenClaw to automate Instagram trial reels that attract potential romantic partners, generating over one million views and 200 DMs in days. Other…
Venice AI, founded by Erik Voorhees, raised $65 million in Series A funding led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase Ventures and North Island Ventures participating, achieving a $1 billion valuation. The star…
Base44, a Tel Aviv startup acquired by Wix for $80 million, launched its own proprietary AI model called Base1 for vibe coding, claiming it is the first app-creation platform to ship its own model rat…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe told TechCrunch that AI will be heavily involved in the next era of UPI payment growth, emphasizing small specialized language models trained on India's payment data rather than la…
Wayve CEO Alex Kendall launched an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation, allowing staff to sell shares to existing and new investors. The move aims to retain talent amid rapi…
Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini image model, capable of text-to-image generation in about four seconds at $0.034 per 1K-resolution image. The release als…
Three former DeepMind researchers turned their poker AI into a quantitative trading firm, EquiLibre Technologies, now valued at over $500 million after a Series A led by Creandum. The company uses rei…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, a mid-size model with Opus-tier agentic and coding performance at lower prices, now default on free and Pro tiers and available on GitHub Copilot and Amazon Bedrock…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, positioning it as a cost-effective model for agentic workflows that approaches the performance of Opus 4.8. Introductory API pricing is $2 per million in…
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX launched a marketplace named OKX AI that enables autonomous AI agents to discover work, hire one another, and settle payments in stablecoins, following a closed beta with 5…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists that integrates databases, code tools, and compute into a single environment with an AI agent to automate research workflows. The beta…
Singapore-based startup Acti launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android that embeds AI agents directly into the keyboard, enabling actions like sharing live stock prices or local recommendations…
Riverside, a video and podcast recording platform, launched an AI-powered newsletter tool that converts existing recordings into newsletters, aiming to differentiate from established platforms like Su…
Google has made its personalized AI image generation feature, powered by Nano Banana technology, free for all eligible US users aged 13 and older, removing the previous requirement for a paid Gemini s…
Anthropic warns that recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI could arrive sooner than institutions are prepared for, as models like Claude now write over 80% of code merged into Anthropic's systems. Th…