Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15 about the future of programming and AI's impact on software development. Replit, wh…
Instinct, an AI personal assistant from San Francisco-based Spear Street Technology, is raising privacy and security concerns among testers due to its broad terms of service and access to user data. T…
General Intuition, a New York-based AI startup building foundation models for generalized AI agents, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a $20-per-month agentic AI product aimed at non-engineers, as part of its push to expand beyond coding into broader white-collar tasks. The product, built on its Codex to…
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform, has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, according to Business Insider. The startup, which last raised at a $4.5 billion post-mon…
A mysterious AI model called Ox Alpha, released on OpenRouter on Thursday and described as a reasoning model for coding and agentic work, has sparked speculation about its creator. Stripe CEO Patrick …
A proposed class action lawsuit filed Thursday by Clarkson Law Firm in San Francisco accuses smart ring maker Oura of deceiving consumers about the accuracy of its sleep tracking features, alleging th…
A federal judge ordered Anthropic to pay a $1.5 billion copyright settlement to writers whose works were used to train its AI models, but ruled the training itself was lawful, penalizing only the use …
Harvard Business School's $699, eight-week HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs now uses AI avatars created by startup HeyGen to provide individual feedback during practice pitches and board meeting…
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at replicating scientific research, despite running…
OpenAI is urging California to strengthen its AI safety bill, SB 53, by adding safeguards such as monitoring frontier models for serious incidents and enhancing cybersecurity protections. The company,…
Few top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans for rogue models, according to a study by Guidelight AI Standards, which graded OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI. Open…
Apple Inc. cut over 200 jobs across its Vision Pro, Siri, and Intelligent Systems Experience teams, with around 100 positions eliminated from the Vision Pro team, as part of a reshuffle to focus on ne…
Michael Polansky, co-founder of Outer Biosciences, is training an AI model on living human skin tissue that his startup has kept alive outside the body for over a month, a breakthrough the company has…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, released earlier this year, complied with 10 out of 10 direct requests for sexually explicit content in TechCrunch testing, despite the company's usage standards prohibiti…
Nvidia has formed a strategic partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a data center developer founded in 2024 that raised $300 million, to accelerate data center infrastructure development. The de…
Nvidia published research on Friday showing that a custom harness with a supervisor component enabled Claude Opus 5 to achieve a 100% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, compared to 30% without the harn…
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites for orbital AI inference, has raised a $250 million extension to its Series A round, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The extension, led by Manhattan Wes…
Micro1, a four-year-old AI data-labeling startup, has grown its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million in eight months, with a net run rate between $150 million and $200 million, acco…
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic among U.S. businesses, according to new data from Ramp, the corporate credit card and expense management company. As of July, Anthropic holds nearly 44% market share to …