AI coverage from TechCrunch.
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
The project would be a "multi-phase, next-generation, vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing and advanced computing fabrication facility," according to the proposal.
The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks.
Match Group said that it's slowing its hiring plans for the rest of the year because AI tools "cost a lot of money."
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit for overpromising the arrival of Siri's AI features.
Ethos says it is onboarding 35,000 experts per week.
Leaders from Coinbase, M13, and Mignano Law Group talk about how M&A is an early-stage strategy at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register to hear this live.
Three days left to lock in 50% off a second ticket to Disrupt 2026. Buy one TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket, and get a second ticket at 50% off. Gain more visibility in the tech industry. Offer ends May 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Samsung crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark after shares surged on AI-driven chip demand, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the milestone.
Enterprise AI will be QuTwoâs bread and butter. âAI is the north star that we will continue to aim for. Quantum is just a new type of compute,â said Sarlin, who is adamant that QuTwo is an AI company.
Wonder wants to turn its robotic kitchens into AI-powered ârestaurant factories,â letting anyone spin up a virtual food brand with a prompt.
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nvidia's NemoClaw.
Altaraâs AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.
With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.
Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his Beverly Hills hotel Tuesday morning ahead of his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference. Dressed in a blue suit and white shirt, he was relaxed â even when the conversation turned to the rivals.
According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.
The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor.
PayPal is pitching an AI-led turnaround, tying automation and restructuring to $1.5 billion in savings as it cuts jobs and works to modernize its tech stack.
Etsy's new native app within ChatGPT aims to be a conversational shopping experience for users.
The visual analysis system is now operating in select countries, but Meta says it's working toward a broader rollout.
ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.
The Seattle-based startup's Series A round was led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
For the next four days only, you can buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. That window closes May 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices go up, and youâll pay more to bring a partner or colleague. Register today to get your plus-one pass at 50% off.
Krutrim's pivot to cloud after layoffs and limited product updates reflects the economic challenges of building AI models in India.
The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI's job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated.
AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. Its relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.
Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads â but most donât convert that spike into revenue.
Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.
The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with â capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.
Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America" if OpenAI doesn't settle the suit.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.
The BOGO offer is live. For a limited time, buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Offer ends this Friday, May 8. Save here.
DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create new websites from existing content.
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases â where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances âcredited in the filmâs legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consentâ will be eligible for Academy Awards.
AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice
At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: In a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the ânonprofit for the […]
The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the ânonprofit for the […]
Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals â from avatars to cinematic portraits.
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI companyâs latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Apple said it will be supply-constrained on Mac mini, Studio, and Neo in the next quarter, too.
The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf, and now have dueling ad campaigns.
OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.
OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts. The new security initiative includes a new partnership with security key provider Yubico.
"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
BioticsAI CEO Robhy Bustami joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to discuss how the company has navigated a highly regulated space and kept the team motivated while cutting through all the red tape.
The move signals Googleâs push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience.
Link lets users connect cards, banks, and subscriptions, then authorize AI agents to spend securely via approval flows.
Salesforce lets its customers lead its product roadmap with the thinking that if one enterprise customer has a problem, the others likely do too.
X is rolling out a rebuilt ads platform powered by AI as it works to grow revenue again.
Meta said over 8 billion advertisers have used at least one of its GenAI tools
You need infrastructure to build AI and robots, but apparently you also need AI and robots to build infrastructure.
The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.
The maker of Claude has received multiple preemptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.
Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.
TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.
MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.
Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.
Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.
Meta's upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.
The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.
StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.
The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.
A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.
Slack just got a whole lot more useful.
OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.
Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.
You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.
The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time âvideo intelligenceâ applications.
Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.
According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules.
LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.
AI adoption is rising in the U.S., but trust remains low, with most Americans concerned about transparency, regulation, and the technologyâs broader societal impact, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.
Mantis takes disparate sources of data to make synthetic datasets that can be used to build so-called "digital twins" of the human body, representing anatomy, physiology and behavior.
ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.
The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.
Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.
As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.
A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.
Google is launching "switching tools" that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.
The site, whose policies are subject to change, has struggled with the issue of AI-generated writing.
It's only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.
Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power â and how that affects the grid.
The new model in CapCut will have built-in protections for making video from real faces or unauthorized intellectual property.
Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.
Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages.
Fears of AI-driven job loss are growing fast, and theyâre fueling backlash against data centers. Sen. Mark Warner suggests taxing them to help workers survive the transition.
The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI.
Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
Anthropic finds AI isnât replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.
Googleâs TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AIâs âworking memoryâ by up to 6x, but itâs still just a lab experiment for now.
The first lady sees AI and robotics playing a prominent role in the future of American education.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced companion legislation to halt construction on new data centers until Congress passes comprehensive AI regulation.
Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.
Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify theyâre human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.
Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil can't get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.
Granola's valuation jumped from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round, and it has added more support for AI agents after users previously complained.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a memo to staff that small businesses have always been a big part of the company's business model, and that while tens of millions of entrepreneurs already use its platforms to grow and connect with customers, the company wants to do more in the space.
Meta is using generative AI to provide more product and brand information to consumers when they're shopping in its apps.
Sift is building the data infrastructure for advanced manufacturing.
Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window-cleaning drones and power-washing robots.
The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.
Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.
A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.
Anthropicâs new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.
The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on Spotify.
With an overflowing war chest from its recent $5 billion raise, Databricks is buying startups and looking for more. It acquired Antimatter and SiftD.ai.
Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.
OpenAI says it's moving away from Instant Checkout, which allowed users to buy items directly through the ChatGPT interface.
Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.
Rather than working from scratch to figure out how to make AI safer for teens, developers can use these policies to fortify what they build.
The subscription-free AI meeting notes app is a local-first twist on notetaking tools like Granola.
Doss's AI-powered inventory management system integrates with existing ERP systems. The Series B round was co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest.
The company said it would design models, hardware, and interfaces in tandem to deliver a "seamless end-to-end personal intelligence product."
Mirage, the maker of video-editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).
Agile Robots will incorporate Google DeepMind's robotics foundation models into its bots while collecting data for the AI research lab.
Londonâs Air Street Capital has raised a large Fund III with eyes locked on backing early-stage European and North American AI companies.
Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks he's tricked Claude into revealing the AI industry's secrets, but he really just exposed how agreeable chatbots can become.
Lovable's founder said the fast-growing vibe-coding startup is looking for startups and teams to join its company.
Apple will host its next Worldwide Developers Conference the week of June 8. The company is expected to announce major updates to Siri with advanced AI capabilities.
Littlebird is building an AI that reads your screen in real time to capture context, answer questions, and automate tasks, without relying on screenshots.
Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.
In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DOD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" as retaliation, arguing that the Pentagon could simply have terminated its contract with the AI lab.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of Helion. His departure comes as reports that the two companies are negotiating a deal that would see Helion sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huangâs GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidiaâs future.
Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.
Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX â but he has a history of overpromising.
An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of âfalselyâ convincing âhundreds of customers they were compliantâ with privacy and security regulations.
Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.
Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.
Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing âShy Girlâ over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.
Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations.
The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.
CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an âOpenClaw strategy,â and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia […]
CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an âOpenClaw strategy,â and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia […]
New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.
Trumpâs AI framework pushes federal preemption of state laws, emphasizes innovation, and shifts responsibility for child safety toward parents while laying out lighter-touch rules for tech companies.
Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That's creating an opening for investors.
These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some even offer live translation.
The Amazon magnate has a new project centered around acquiring industrial firms and revamping them with AI technology.
AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.
Meta believes these AI systems can detect more violations with greater accuracy, better prevent scams, respond more quickly to real-world events, and reduce over-enforcement.
Delivery couriers will be able to earn money by completing activities like filming everyday tasks or recording themselves speaking in another language.