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Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their...

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world...

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas...

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks...

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up. ...

QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a...

Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by...

Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms...

Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them

Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last...

India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series...

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a...

OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues

In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized"...

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million. ...

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no...

Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica

Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team....

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more...

Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building...

‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product....

Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of...

Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading...

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...

Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access...

Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9...

A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations

Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the...

AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law

AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state...

HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector

Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now,...

OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences

OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed...