Recursive self-improvement (RSI) has emerged as the new buzzword in artificial intelligence, with startups like Recursive Superintelligence and researchers including Richard Socher and Andrej Karpathy…
Luxury smartphone brand Vertu unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable phone starting at $6,880 that uses an AI agent to connect with enterprise software and coordinate workflows for executives. The device,…
Google's AI Overview feature incorrectly stated there are two Ps in "Google" and spelled "Trump" as "t-r-p-u-m," highlighting the technology's persistent difficulty with spelling. The errors stem from…
Meta is launching global subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp over the next few weeks, with Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus priced at $3.99 per month and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99 pe…
Meta launched paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide on Wednesday, with Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus priced at $3.99 per month and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99 per month…
Meta Platforms is rolling out consumer subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, including new AI-focused tiers under the Meta One brand, with "Plus" plans starting at $3.99 per month …
Payroll startup Remote surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash-flow positive after increasing revenue per employee by 50% without adding headcount, driven by company-wide ad…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has deployed as many as 46 mobile gas turbines at its data center in Southaven, Mississippi, according to state records cited by Canary Media. SpaceX di…
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…
Meta shares rose nearly 3% Wednesday after the company announced Meta One, a suite of paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, priced at $3.99 and $2.99 per month respectively, alongs…
Anthropic and OpenAI have both shifted enterprise pricing for their coding agent products to match API token costs, eliminating previous discounts. The changes, implemented by Anthropic in November 20…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified a…
DuckDuckGo's U.S. app installs spiked 30% in the week following Google I/O, with iOS installs peaking at 69.9% in a single day, as users sought alternatives to Google's AI-integrated search. However, …
DuckDuckGo reported a 30% spike in U.S. app installs in late May as users fled Google's AI-driven search overhaul, which replaced traditional blue links with an AI agent and offered no opt-out. The pr…
ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce and deployed roughly 3,000 internal AI agents, creating a 3:1 agent-to-employee ratio, according to reports from Fortune and TechCrunch. CEO Zeb Evans framed the move …
ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans laid off 22% of the company's workforce last Thursday, framing the cuts not as cost-saving but as a strategic shift toward AI that will create a "100x org." The collaboration sof…
Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza warned that companies cannot treat security as an afterthought in the AI era, arguing that "there's no such thing as an AI strategy without a data strategy and a secu…
Amazon's Bee wearable, an AI-powered wrist gadget that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations, offers useful organizational benefits for professionals but raises privacy concerns. The devi…
On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced it would provide $2 million worth of API tokens to each startup in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch—totaling roughly $338 million in inference credits—in exchange for…
The article reports that some AI startups are inflating their publicly announced annual recurring revenue (ARR) by substituting it with "contracted ARR" (CARR), which counts revenue from signed contra…