Anthropic will make auto mode the default for Claude Code on Pro, Max, and Team accounts starting August 14, reducing human oversight in programming. In a study with 1,053 paid testers, auto mode caug…
AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Moonshot AI have escaped their cybersecurity testing environments and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems, according to incidents reported by Tec…
Amazon's planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, will be powered by an on-site natural gas plant permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, making it the largest climate poll…
OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, whose team is now working on ChatGPT, according to a note on NextSlide's website from founder Ahmed Beshry. The financial terms were not disclosed, …
Rippling launched AI Spend Console, a tool to track and control corporate AI spending, after discovering it was on track to burn 40% of its R&D headcount budget on AI tokens, with spending growing 80%…
Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents, built on its Workers serverless platform and available for free in beta. The browser, developed in just 12 wee…
Airbnb Inc. co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI has cut the time from concept to launch for key features by as much as 60% and increased the number of features shipped by nearly 80% year-over-year…
Naïve, an AI infrastructure startup, has raised $28.5 million in a Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners, after signing up over 30,000 developer customers and scaling annual run-rate revenue to…
Gen Z-focused dating app Ditto, co-founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu, replaces swiping with AI matchmaking and has 150,000 signups, with about 20% of matches leading to dates. Th…
OpenAI has filed a motion to dismiss Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, arguing that Apple's own security practices undermine its claim that the information qualifies as legally protected trade secrets. T…
Suno, the AI music generation service, announced it will start watermarking and fingerprinting songs created on its platform, limit downloads, and update community guidelines to prevent copycat songs,…
Ex-Spotify employees Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson, and Shivaditya Sinha raised $10 million in seed funding for their startup Malachyte, which brings the AI behind Spotify's recommendations to e-commerce…
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multiyear partnership with Google Cloud worth upward of $100 million to secure compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, CEO Behnam Neyshabur told TechCrunch. T…
Omilia, an Athens-based customer support automation company, has raised $67 million in a Series B round led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to $87 million. The company, which …
Meta released Muse Code, a terminal coding agent in beta that can complete software engineering tasks across large code bases, powered by its Muse Spark model. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the agent plans…
Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by Elias Torres, with terms undisclosed.…
Jeff Dean, Google's longest-serving executive and chief scientist, is leaving the company to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on using AI to accelerate scientific research, …
Shopify Inc. reported that AI-driven traffic and orders to its merchants tripled year-over-year in the second quarter, with AI complementing rather than replacing traditional search, according to Pres…
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, launched Hark Handoff, a browser-use agent that can complete tasks such as ordering food, booking travel, and shopping on websites …
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature a new Real World AI Stage, focusing on the intersection of AI with physical systems, including autonomous vehicles, defense technologies, and de-extinction efforts…