AI News & Articles

OpenAI’s existential questions

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they...

The 12-month window

A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into...

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures

Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and...

TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters its assetmaxxing era

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now,...

Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston

The company now offers robotaxi service in three cities, all of them in Texas,...

AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO

In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use...

Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking...

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why

New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting...

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered...

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora...

Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round....

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires...

Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap 

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and...

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product...

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and...

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures....

Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley,...

Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding...

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but...

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new...

OpenAI Agents SDK improves governance with sandbox execution

OpenAI is introducing sandbox execution that allows enterprise governance teams to deploy automated workflows...

Cadence expands AI and robotic partnerships with Nvidia, Google Cloud

Cadence Design Systems announced two AI-related collaborations at its CadenceLIVE event this week, expanding...

Commvault launches a ‘Ctrl-Z’ for cloud AI workloads

Enterprise cloud environments now have access to an undo feature for AI agents following...

Citizen developers now have their own Wingman

A vibe-coding application creation company, Emergent, has released Wingman, an autonomous agent that can...

Drones get smarter for large farm holdings

Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH...

The US-China AI gap closes amid responsible AI concerns

The assumption that the US holds a durable lead in AI model performance is...

SAP brings agentic AI to human capital management

According to SAP, integrating agentic AI into core human capital management (HCM) modules helps...

Canada’s Scotiabank preps for its AI future

Scotiabank has launched an AI framework, Scotia Intelligence, for data and AI operations that...

Hyundai expands into robotics and physical AI systems

Hyundai Motor Group is starting to look like a company building machines that act...

Strengthening enterprise governance for rising edge AI workloads

Models like Google Gemma 4 are increasing enterprise AI governance challenges for CISOs as...

Companies expand AI adoption while keeping control

Many companies are taking a slower, more controlled approach to autonomous systems as AI...

IBM: How robust AI governance protects enterprise margins

To protect enterprise margins, business leaders must invest in robust AI governance to securely...