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…
Anthropic is assembling a team to design custom AI chips, aiming to co-design hardware and models for faster, more efficient performance, as reported by Business Insider. The company has signed deals …
MacPaw, a Ukraine-based app developer, has partnered with Liquid AI to power its products with locally hosted AI models, including an on-device inference system called Elix and a local memory system f…
WindBorne Systems, a startup using the world's longest-flying weather balloons and AI forecasting models, has raised a $37 million Series B round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize, valuing the c…
Wispr Flow, the AI dictation app, has launched a meeting notetaker for Mac that uses system audio to transcribe meetings without joining them, cleans up transcripts, creates action items, and lets use…
SpaceX has spent $329 million on Tesla Megapacks so far this year, including $295 million in the second quarter, according to its earnings report released Tuesday. The batteries are likely deployed at…
A new report from AI safety nonprofit SaferAI finds that China's Z.ai open-weight model GLM-5.2 is only a few months behind OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and bio capabiliti…
Wrinkles, an AI-powered audio tour guide app founded by David Stemler and Ryan Hansan, uses location data to surface stories about nearby places and is now available on iOS and Android. The app has a …
Anthropic has signed a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta to provide cloud compute over six years, with Bitdeer developing a data center in Norway that will deliver 133 megawatts powered by …
The Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has grown to over 120 companies in its first week, has proposed a new working group called the Shared AI Findings Excha…