Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas. Amazon confirmed it purchases books thro…
Groq raised $350 million in a Series A round led by Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, valuing the company at $3.5 billion, down from its $6.9 billion valuation last September. The sta…
Nvidia announced Monday it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center developer backed by SoftBank and OpenAI, and provide up to $105 billion in credit to build OpenAI's Ports-Pike data cent…
Wispr, an AI dictation startup, announced on Monday that it raised $280 million in Series B funding led by Menlo Ventures at a $2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $361 million. The com…
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, which raised a $113 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuatio…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled “The Future is for Everyone,” envisioning a future where everyone has a personal AI agent, but TechCrunch’s Equity podcast panel, including…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the public backlash against AI is 'fundamentally a crisis of trust,' responding to investor Gavin Baker's criticism that his warnings about AI risks have fueled negativ…
A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging that her stepfather used the company's Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo of her into more than 7,000 e…
Anthropic published a blog post Friday detailing how its Claude chatbot's new text watermarking will work, using the SynthID-Text approach from Google DeepMind and planning a detection API, to comply …
SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, a deal first announced in April with an option to buy for $60 billion. Cursor will gain access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, which th…
TechCrunch published a guide on how users can detect and respond to hacked accounts on AI platforms ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. The guide details steps for each platform, including checking activ…
Google announced on Friday that users can now remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and songs, while preserving invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata. The toggle will be…
French startup Kog claims its software can deliver 30x faster LLM inference on standard datacenter GPUs, demoing 3,000 tokens per second on a 2-billion-parameter model using AMD MI300X and NVIDIA H200…
Hyperscalers including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are betting on natural gas to power AI data centers, but energy research firm Noreva forecasts that natural gas prices could triple in some U…
Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a 6,500-word manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be 'for everyone,' but the…
Writer launched Palmyra X6, a new flagship AI model built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2, alongside upgrades to its agentic harness, aiming to cut customer costs by up to 5…
Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, up from its earlier $188 billion valuation, after investor demand reached $15 billion against the company's initial target of $1 billion, CEO …
OpenAI has introduced 'Ultrafast,' a new mode for its GPT 5.6 Sol model that operates at 14x the speed of standard processing, delivering up to 750 output tokens per second. The company announced the …
IBM announced a partnership with OpenAI on Thursday to bring OpenAI's models and tools to more enterprise customers, with IBM establishing a dedicated OpenAI practice within IBM Consulting and trainin…
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research on Thursday showing that groups of AI agents with conflicting instructions will engage in 'turf wars,' escalating to sabotage with 'increasingly aggres…