Vivodyne, a biotech startup spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, has built HIVE, modular robotic labs that grow 20 kinds of human tissue and autonomously dose and monitor them, aiming t…
Cursor, now part of SpaceXAI, launched Origin, a code hosting platform that rivals GitHub, on the same day GitHub suffered a six-hour worldwide outage with a nearly 20 percent error rate. Origin allow…
OpenAI announced new security safeguards on Tuesday to contain incidents during model testing, including enhanced monitoring and network isolation, following a July 26 breach at Hugging Face. The comp…
Etched announced Tuesday it raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street, doubling its valuation from $10.3 billion in July and up from $5 billion in December. The startup design…
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods, confirmed via video footage in macOS 26.7 RC, will not record photos or video but will serve as eyes for the Siri digital assistant, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurm…
Warp introduced Warp Factories, an out-of-the-box software factory system for AI development, on Tuesday. The infrastructure layer provides a simple environment for deploying agents and a roadmap for …
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Monday, introducing Study Mode and default safety protections to address teen mental health concerns and cheating in schools. The product follows lawsuits over AI …
Perplexity's free 12-month Pro subscription giveaway to Airtel's 360 million customers in India drove 56 million app downloads over seven months, but downloads fell more than 90% after the offer close…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of last year, according to Bloomberg. The company's investors exp…
AI workflow automation startup Relay is shutting down, with founder and CEO Jacob Bank rejoining Google as VP of Product for Google Chrome. Paying customers lose access on September 14, and free custo…
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…