techcrunch15h ago
Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs
Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.
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techcrunch16h ago
Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows
Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
techcrunch17h ago
Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the entire economy.
techcrunch17h ago
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
techcrunch17h ago
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
techcrunch19h ago
Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume
The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.
techcrunch1d ago
Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?
Forget YouTube videos — frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and, soon, brain wave readings.
techcrunch1d ago
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
techcrunch1d ago
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
techcrunch2d ago
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
techcrunch2d ago
Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch2d ago
One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem — here’s how to fix it
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
techcrunch3d ago
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
techcrunch3d ago
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
techcrunch3d ago
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
techcrunch3d ago
Anthropic launches Opus 5
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
techcrunch3d ago
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
techcrunch3d ago
Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
techcrunch3d ago
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
techcrunch3d ago
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breac
techcrunch3d ago
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
techcrunch4d ago
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
techcrunch4d ago
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
techcrunch4d ago
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
techcrunch4d ago
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
techcrunch4d ago
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.
techcrunch4d ago
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
techcrunch4d ago
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch4d ago
Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
techcrunch4d ago
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
techcrunch4d ago
Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
techcrunch4d ago
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
techcrunch5d ago
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
techcrunch5d ago
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
techcrunch5d ago
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
techcrunch5d ago
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
techcrunch5d ago
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
techcrunch5d ago
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
techcrunch5d ago
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sha
techcrunch5d ago
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
techcrunch5d ago
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
techcrunch5d ago
Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
techcrunch5d ago
OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
techcrunch5d ago
Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently
Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series
techcrunch5d ago
The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
techcrunch5d ago
Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
techcrunch5d ago
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
techcrunch6d ago
Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
techcrunch6d ago
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
techcrunch6d ago
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
techcrunch6d ago
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
techcrunch6d ago
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
techcrunch6d ago
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become
techcrunch6d ago
Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
techcrunch6d ago
Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
techcrunch6d ago
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
techcrunch6d ago
Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated
Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.
techcrunch6d ago
Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants — then, everything else
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
techcrunchJul 21
Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
techcrunchJul 20
Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
techcrunchJul 20
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
techcrunchJul 20
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.
techcrunchJul 20
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
techcrunchJul 20
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
techcrunchJul 20
Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI
Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.
techcrunchJul 20
YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos
YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.
techcrunchJul 19
What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
techcrunchJul 19
Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
techcrunchJul 19
‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
techcrunchJul 19
Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all
Current AI, a nonprofit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat, and more.
techcrunchJul 18
Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
techcrunchJul 18
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
techcrunchJul 17
Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
techcrunchJul 17
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open-weight AI models for coding.
techcrunchJul 17
The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
techcrunchJul 17
Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
techcrunchJul 17
AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
techcrunchJul 17
How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has
techcrunchJul 17
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.
techcrunchJul 17
Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has
techcrunchJul 17
Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
techcrunchJul 16
Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.
techcrunchJul 16
Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
techcrunchJul 16
Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.
techcrunchJul 16
Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.
techcrunchJul 16
Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.
techcrunchJul 16bullish
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.
techcrunchJul 16
Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
techcrunchJul 16
Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.
techcrunchJul 16
Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu
The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.
techcrunchJul 16
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
techcrunchJul 15
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
techcrunchJul 15
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.
techcrunchJul 15
SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.
techcrunchJul 15
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
techcrunchJul 15
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
techcrunchJul 15
Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.
techcrunchJul 15
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.
techcrunchJul 15
Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others. On this episode
techcrunchJul 15
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.