Index Ventures co-founder Neil Rimer said at a tech festival in Athens that he expects a redistribution of AI wealth, either voluntary or involuntary, and hopes tech leaders will take a leading role. …
Vertu's Alphafold, a luxury foldable smartphone starting at $6,880, targets executives with its Hermes Agent AI designed to automate workplace tasks, but a TechCrunch review found the device shares ha…
Databricks announced a new funding round led by Coatue that values the company at $188 billion, extending its fundraising streak as it transforms into an AI provider. The round is expected to close la…
Venture capitalist Jeremy Levine changed his Zoom display name to 'Jeremy Levine I do not consent to transcribing or recording' as a protest against the rising use of AI note-taking apps, according to…
India's smartphone shipments fell 10% year-over-year in the April-June quarter, the steepest June-quarter decline in six years, as AI-driven demand for memory chips pushed up handset prices, according…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging a pattern of misconduct involving more than 400 former Apple employees now working at OpenAI, including its chief hardware offi…
Patreon announced Thursday it is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots from scraping creators' content, moving beyond its previous robots.txt requests after finding that AI crawle…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging misconduct by OpenAI's chief hardware officer and claiming more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. The lawsuit…
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, marking what may be the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral. The financing signals gr…
Enterprise AI initiatives are stalling not because of insufficient compute power but because of data-delivery bottlenecks in the infrastructure moving data between storage and GPU clusters, according …
Google announced an update to Google Vids that lets users create a custom digital avatar based on a selfie and voice recording, and is bringing its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to the platform for…
Roblox announced a new AI-powered feature called "Build" that lets users create games from mobile devices using text prompts, launching in public alpha on July 28 in New Zealand. The company said the …
Google announced Thursday that its AI Mode conversational search experience now allows users to link and interact with select apps including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube, enabling task completion suc…
DoorDash introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool called 'dd-cli' that lets developers and AI agents order food directly from the terminal, open to U.S. and Canadian macOS develo…
OpenAI has released a $70 ChatGPT basketball as part of its 'Pause. Play. Prompt.' campaign, alongside a $230 mini keyboard for Codex. The 100% rubber ball is marketed as a physical reminder that crea…
Andrew Dai, a former Google DeepMind researcher, raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation for his visual AI startup Elorian before launching a product. Dai prioritized strategic inv…
AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that his company avoids terms like 'AGI' and 'superintelligence' because they lack useful definitions. The pre-product world-model st…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI's upcoming Kimi K3 model, with 2-3 trillion parameters, is expected to match or surpass Anthropic's Opus 4.8, according to the Financial Times. The open-weight model, the la…
Apple Intelligence, Apple's generative AI offering, received approval from China's Cyberspace Administration of China for launch in the country, with integrations of Alibaba's Qwen AI model and Baidu'…
Applied Computing, a London-based startup building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ve…