Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million....
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving...
Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta...
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and...
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but...
Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out...
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over...
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors...
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between...
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model...
Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling...
We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling...
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and...
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products...
India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for...
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments
Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but...
PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam
Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether...
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023...
OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real-time last-mile delivery optimisation
OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers,...
NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source...
Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions
Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their...
ChatGPT Ads passes $1B run rate in 200 days
ChatGPT Ads has hit $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate in under 200...
Why MCP servers are becoming AI’s newest attack surface
As AI adoption gathers pace, so does the evolution of the infrastructure that supports...
A quarter of Nvidia’s business next year comes from labs it is financing
Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips,...
Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand...
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at...
MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data
MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on...
XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation...
How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript
In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the...
Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities...
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