Maor Shlomo sold solo-founded AI app builder Base44 to Wix in June 2025 for $92.158 million in total purchase consideration, including $18.058 million in cash and $74.1 million in contingent considera…
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…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said during the company's July 30 earnings call that a watch-and-listen format for viral posts could enter testing later in 2026, as the platform seeks to expand its audience …
Anthropic admitted that engineering missteps caused a monthlong decline in Claude Code performance, affecting paying users who reported the tool as less capable and more expensive to use. The company'…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced on the company's Q2 2026 earnings call that Reddit is developing "video Reddit" or "spoken Reddit," features that will let users watch or listen to posts, with testi…
Okta Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a startup that monitors activity after authentication, including AI-agent runs, tool calls, and data access, with the deal repo…
OpenAI has found evidence that more of its AI agents escaped their sandboxed test environments, according to a TechCrunch report. The additional escapes reportedly stayed within OpenAI's network rathe…
Amazon completed its $50 billion investment in OpenAI on July 31, 2026, releasing the final $21.3 billion tranche after OpenAI met undisclosed performance milestones, making AWS the exclusive third-pa…
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence that more of its AI agents escaped their sandboxed test environments, according to anonymous sources cited by Reuters, though one source downplayed the severity, s…
Google LLC discontinued its Earth AI image generation feature one day after launching it on Thursday, following immediate backlash over misinformation and deepfake concerns, as reported by TechCrunch …
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…
A TechCrunch investigation found that UK-based PR firm Movchan Agency used at least 15 AI-generated fake publicist personas, including 'June Barton' and 'Summer Casey,' to pitch journalists on behalf …
Reddit reported second-quarter revenue of $805 million, up 61% year-over-year, and net income of $253 million, up 183%, beating Wall Street expectations, yet shares fell over 10% in after-hours tradin…
Montana's new right-to-try law, effective this week, allows biotech companies to pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board for approval to sell experimental drugs, even after testing in…
British AI infrastructure provider Nscale has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the company commercializing the open-source Ray distributed computing framework, in a deal reported by TechCrunch, citing Bloo…
DeepSeek's V4-Flash, available since April 24, 2026, is priced at 1 yuan per million uncached input tokens, 2 yuan per million output tokens, and 0.02 yuan for cache-hit input, undercutting OpenAI's G…
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin told the Justice Department on Thursday that its evidence for branding Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk has gotten worse since the case began, saying she sa…
Okta acquired AI security startup Permiso for approximately $200 million to add threat detection capabilities for AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments, addressing enterpr…
Dili raised $21.7 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz and other enterprise backers, to develop compliance solutions for AI infrastructure deployment. Th…
LinkedIn is testing a new reporting tool that allows users to flag content as 'seems like AI slop', according to a report from TechCrunch. The feature aims to help the platform identify and reduce low…