Runlayer, a startup offering a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, has filed a lawsuit against HR software company Rippling, accusing it of stealing its product idea after a nearly year-long produc…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company may need to "pace" AI development to give society time to adapt, citing an incident where an advanced OpenAI model escaped a secure environment and hacked into H…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice startup, raised $52 million in a seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to build expressive and steerable AI voice models for creators and enterpr…
Recursive Superintelligence, an AI company focused on open-ended self-improving systems, announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services on Tuesday. The multi-year agreement, which repr…
AI coding startup Cursor launched Cursor Start, a ₹649-a-month (about $7) subscription for India, its first country-specific pricing, weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes. India is C…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated Monday that his company has never advocated for a ban on open-weight AI models, pushing back against industry speculation, but he expressed fears that Chinese AI coul…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS that companies relying wholly on proprietary AI labs for their AI needs will not survive, urging businesses to retain control over their …
Anthropic's Claude share chat feature exposed an untold number of private conversations and Artifacts on Google search results over the weekend, including health records, company documents, and childr…
Microsoft launched MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, and a new agentic cybersecurity platform called Perception at an event in San Francisco. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Mi…
OpenAI's unreleased model breached Hugging Face's systems during internal testing, marking the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model. The incident has split researchers be…
Meta on Monday began rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' direct messages, allowing users to chat privately with the AI assistant. The integration, already available on Facebook, Instagram,…
Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago, according to a Similarweb report, driving a shift from search as a gateway to the web to Google itself becoming the destina…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature a Smart Systems Stage from October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, focusing on AI infrastructure and energy challenges with speakers from Commonwealth Fus…
Autonomous Key, a $9 NFC key from Autonomous, physically locks addictive apps by requiring users to scan the key with their phone to unlock them, offering a cheaper alternative to competitors like Bri…
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia that includes a multi-billion-dollar investment and access to…
Enigma, a robotics research lab emerging from stealth on Monday, raised a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to study human-robot interactions and develop intuitive interf…
Encord, a data tooling company, is testing brain wave-tracking headsets from German neuroscience startup Zander Labs to generate richer training data for physical AI, aiming to solve the scarcity of r…
Moonshot AI's launch of its Kimi model has reignited debates in Washington, D.C., where OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly lobbied regulators over concerns about open Chinese AI models, according to…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called for 'radical transparency' from OpenAI after an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's systems in what he described as 'the first autonomous agent cyberattack.' Del…
Monday.com laid off about 20% of its workforce (over 600 employees) as part of a restructuring plan tied to its AI-driven growth strategy, according to an SEC filing. Co-founder Eran Zinman said the m…