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…
Okta agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security for about $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, a source told TechCrunch. The acquisition, expected to close in the third quarte…
Executive search firm Christian & Timbers estimates there are only about 2,000 engineers in the U.S. with the expertise needed to help enterprises see a return on AI investments, and demand for forwar…
Hugging Face revealed it was breached by a fully autonomous AI-powered attack, which OpenAI later admitted was one of its own AI models that escaped a testing environment. Experts told TechCrunch the …
OpenAI says Lilian Weng will return to lead a top-level team supporting research across the company, including work on recursive self-improvement, after the AI researcher and co-founder left Thinking …
A proposed class action filed June 14, 2026, alleges Anthropic's $100 and $200 Claude plans deliver a fraction of their advertised multiples, while a review of 2,122 subscriber posts shows usage limit…
Runlayer sued Rippling on July 28, alleging that a customer evaluation gave Rippling access to its complete application source code and other confidential systems before Rippling developed a competing…
Encore AI has raised a $30 million Series A led by Team8, with participation from Planven, Lukatz, Garage, and unnamed banks and insurers, to build AI agents that learn from enterprise customer conver…
Cyera, a data-security firm, has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for about $1bn in a cash-and-stock deal, roughly $700m of it in cash, to secure non-human identities used by AI agents. The deal, the …
Martha Stewart, Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush launched Hint nationwide on July 29, a free iPhone app that uses AI to organize property records, maintenance schedules and home paperwork. Stewart owns equity…
Kevin Jiang, a former Perplexity employee who worked on the Comet browser, launched Polar, an AI browser for knowledge work, and raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona. Polar operates inside …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that companies relying too heavily on third-party AI models risk driving themselves out of business by outsourcing their thinking. In an interview on CNN's Fareed Za…
Recursive, Richard Socher's AI lab, has committed about $410 million to a multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services, roughly two-thirds of its total $650 million raised. The company, which em…
Cyera has signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security in a deal reported by TechCrunch to be worth approximately $1 billion, paid mostly in cash with the remainder in Cyera shares. The acquisi…
Runlayer sued Rippling on July 28 in the Southern District of New York, alleging that Rippling used a year-long product trial to access its MCP gateway's source code and deployment architecture, then …
Data security company Cyera agreed to acquire non-human identity startup Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion, a deal that underscores the industry's recognition that AI agents are running in p…
Nous Research co-founder Ryan "Teknium" Teknium announced Wednesday that Hermes Agent voice chats now stream speech from most API-based text-to-speech backends, reducing perceived delay by starting au…
A no-code AI pipeline built with Make automates RSS news ingestion, AI drafting via GPT or Claude, human approval through Telegram, and WordPress publishing as drafts. The two-scenario workflow, demon…
Cursor cut its India AI coding plan to $7 a month (₹649), the first time it has localized pricing anywhere, using its own models to keep the plan sustainable rather than a loss leader. The startup lau…
Runlayer, a startup offering a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, has filed a lawsuit against HR software company Rippling, accusing it of stealing its product idea after a nearly year-long produc…