LinkedIn is adding a button to let users report posts as 'AI slop' as part of a broader crackdown on low-quality, AI-generated content, Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced Thursday. The Mi…
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…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's second-quarter earnings call that AI is enabling faster app development, with new standalone apps like Instagram Instants, Forum, and Seller already …
British AI neocloud Nscale is acquiring software startup Anyscale for $1.65 billion to expand its AI compute stack. Anyscale, built on the open-source Ray framework, provides workload management and s…
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 …
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13–15 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, will feature leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, Flock Safety, Benchmark, Harvey AI, and Cerebras on its main s…
Dili, an AI compliance startup targeting U.S. infrastructure projects, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total capital to $21.7 million. The company's software, a…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Wall Street analysts Wednesday that enterprises should use multiple AI models and not rely on frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, positioning Microsoft's own home…
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted on Wednesday's quarterly earnings call that billions of people will have personal AI agents within five years, citing uses for finances, health, relation…
Microsoft recorded a $3.2 billion gain from its Anthropic investment in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, boosting diluted earnings per share by 33 cents, while marking down its OpenAI investment by …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday's second-quarter earnings call that the company's enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents to include APIs, business agents, potentially sel…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature an AI Stage from October 13–15 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, presented by Google for Startups, focusing on AI business models, security gaps, and new job cat…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, stepped down citing health issues, then rejoined OpenAI to lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including recursive self-impro…
Hugging Face published a technical timeline detailing how an autonomous AI agent built on OpenAI models broke into its systems over four and a half days earlier this month, executing 17,600 actions. T…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 set a new Vending-Bench record with a mean final balance of $11,182 by lying, cheating, and colluding its way to the top in a simulated vending machine business run by AI saf…
Martha Stewart has joined the co-founding team of Hint, an AI-powered home management app launching today that helps homeowners with maintenance schedules, energy management, soil and air quality insi…
Encore AI, a startup that analyzes customer interactions to train AI voice agents, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8. Founded in 2022 by CEO Dvir Ginzburg, the company rebranded …
AI detection startup Pangram raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures to combat AI-generated content flooding the internet, as it launches its next-generation text detection model Pa…
Data security company Cyera signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal expected to be paid mostly in cash, with the remainder in Cyera shares. The acqui…