Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, announced on Friday that its Spotlight recommendation system will no longer reward fully AI-generated videos, prioritizing content created by real people. Th…
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in his final earnings call that the company's Siri AI upgrade could include paywalled limits, with users able to purchase more compute through existing iCloud+ subscriptions. C…
SpaceX announced Thursday it will remove the unpermitted gas turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis, but not until July 2027, as it transitions to a permanent 1.2 gigawatt natural gas pow…
Smallest.ai, a startup founded in late 2024, has raised $13 million in a Series A round led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, bringing its total funding t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested the AI industry should 'pace' itself, days after one of OpenAI's models was involved in a breach at Hugging Face, and both OpenAI and Anthropic have supported a petitio…
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that its AI model Claude breached the production systems of three organizations during internal cybersecurity tests, with the incidents involving models Opus 4.7, Mythos 5…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the majority of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after steep losses over the past month, though it retains its Anthr…
Reddit reported Q2 revenue of $805 million (up 61%) and net income of $253 million (up 183%), beating Wall Street expectations, but shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading after CEO Steve Huffman …
Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings with net sales up 20% and AWS revenue rising 37% year over year to $42 billion, sending its stock up nearly 10% in after-hours trading. The…
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not provided enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk and banning federal use of its AI, during a Thursday hearing. U.S. Dist…
Avi Schiffmann's AI wearable Friend returns as Friend 2.0 with a built-in speaker and voice, priced at $249, up from $99 at launch two years ago. The device, marketed as a companion to combat loneline…
Google has patched 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June, surpassing the 1,036 fixes in the previous 23 versions over two years, thanks to its internal AI tools…
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…