Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the...
Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.
AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his...
OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed
OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most...
IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies...
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising...
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues
OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the...
Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated...
Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs
Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants...
Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report
The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the...
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to...
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on...
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after...
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei...
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation...
Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android
Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic, is now an Android...
Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even...
Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M
This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue...
How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse...
Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even...
Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features
From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here...
Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping
Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token...
Google tests AMIE for clinical video consultations
Google’s research medical AI system, AMIE (Video), conducted synchronous video consultations with professional patient...
Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery
Novo Nordisk is expanding its use of AWS artificial intelligence tools across drug discovery,...
How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline
Artificial intelligence is giving security researchers new ways to examine code, trace unusual behaviour...
Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs
Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents...
The limits of physics AI: where Siemens says the human stays in charge
Physics AI can now explore thousands of design variations in the time it would...
Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli
Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo...
How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch
Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on...
Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI
Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen...
Why health AI interfaces must adapt to user expertise
MIT researchers and collaborators found that AI explainability tools in the health sector can...
PRISM2 model uses clinical dialogue to interpret pathology slides
Built by Paige and Microsoft, PRISM2 reads whole-slide images through a perceiver-based encoder trained...
Alibaba, DeepSeek push China’s AI model race towards lower costs
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash...
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