The Shanghai Futures Exchange is designing a derivatives market for AI tokens, joining the CME Group and the Intercontinental Exchange in developing futures contracts for GPU compute and AI services. …
StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026 will take place June 18 at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, bringing together leading investors and entrepreneurs for conversations on venture capital and fr…
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 on Thursday, its newest and most advanced publicly available AI model, alongside a new "Dynamic Workflows" tool for managing complex multi-agent tasks. The upgrade arrives …
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated on X that the company's compute lease with Anthropic is a 180-day agreement with a 90-day mutual cancellation clause, directly contradicting SpaceX's SEC filing which descr…
Sesame, the conversational AI startup co-founded by Oculus founders, launched its iOS app on Thursday, offering a public preview of AI agents designed to speak more naturally by running parallel searc…
Ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Bloomberg published leaked renders of Apple's planned AI upgrade for iPhone, revealing a new Siri app designed to rival ChatGPT and other AI c…
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) has emerged as the new buzzword in artificial intelligence, with startups like Recursive Superintelligence and researchers including Richard Socher and Andrej Karpathy…
Databricks co-founder and SVP of field engineering Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji will argue at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that enterprise AI deals fail not because of model performance but because deployments…
YouTube announced Thursday it is adding new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an "Auto speed" setting that adjusts playback based on speech patterns, and…
Visa has made an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit, with the two companies exploring how to integrate Visa's payment products so developers and AI agents can accept payments directly…
General Compute, a new AI inference neocloud, raised a $15 million seed round at a $60 million valuation to deploy specialized SambaNova chips for running AI models. The company has $300 million of th…
Luxury smartphone brand Vertu unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable phone starting at $6,880 that uses an AI agent to connect with enterprise software and coordinate workflows for executives. The device,…
Google's AI Overview feature incorrectly stated there are two Ps in "Google" and spelled "Trump" as "t-r-p-u-m," highlighting the technology's persistent difficulty with spelling. The errors stem from…
Snowflake signed a $6 billion five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services on Wednesday, securing expanded access to AWS's homegrown Graviton CPU chips for AI workloads. The deal, which nearly matches…
Payroll startup Remote surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash-flow positive after increasing revenue per employee by 50% without adding headcount, driven by company-wide ad…
Google's AI-generated answers now dominate search results, leaving brands with little visibility into how the technology describes them to customers. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Scrunch VP of part…
Meta launched global consumer subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on Wednesday, offering plans from $2.99 to $3.99 per month for extra features like profile customization and story ins…
Cognition, the developer of the autonomous AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation on Wednesday, a sharp increase from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation…
Voice AI company ElevenLabs launched Music v2, a music-generation model that can switch genres mid-track, such as transitioning from opera to heavy metal, and allows artists to edit specific song sect…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified a…