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…
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 today, closing the capability gap with Opus 4.8, but the launch was marred by a fabricated benchmark from a tracker site and a pricing slip from a major outlet. Sonne…
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…
Cursor launched an iOS app and Progressive Web App for Android, allowing developers to prompt and monitor AI coding agents from their phones. The move signals a shift from writing code to supervising …
Ford Motor Company rehired 350 veteran engineers after automated quality systems and AI tools failed to catch defects in vehicle parts, according to Bloomberg. Kumar Galhotra said the company had over…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe said AI could help India's UPI system reach 1 billion daily transactions by improving fraud detection, credit distribution, and voice-based multilingual onboarding. UPI currently p…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe said AI will drive India's UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions through fraud detection, credit distribution, and voice-based onboarding. PhonePe and Google Pay con…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's vision for orbital data centers, arguing they won't cut costs quickly enough to matter in the AI race. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, editors noted th…
Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody publicly accused Sequoia Capital of using a 'dual-pricing' tactic in which the firm invests at two different valuations, allowing startups to announce a higher headline…
Notion will shut down Notion Mail on September 22, 2026, citing that more than half of users now manage email through AI agents without opening the inbox. The company is going all-in on agent-based em…