AI News & Articles

OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness

OpenAI is looking to hire a new executive responsible for studying emerging AI-related risks...

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective

Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into...

Equity’s 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, Blockbuster IPOs, and the Future of VC

TechCrunch’s Equity crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to...

Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groq’s tech and hire its CEO

With Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in...

The year data centers went from backend to center stage

Data centers are no longer the boring tech issue they once were. ...

The European startup market’s data doesn’t match its energy — yet

Europe's startup market hasn't produced meaningful numbers but there is reason to believe the...

Why the operating room is ripe for AI, according to Akara

There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s...

Waymo is testing Gemini as an in-car AI assistant in its robotaxis

Waymo is testing a Gemini-powered in-car AI assistant, per findings from a 1,200-line system...

Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp's...

Can AI fix the operating room? This startup thinks so

There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s...

John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies

These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be...

Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green

Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine. Green’s investment...

Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp

The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others. ...

Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech

Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to...

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic...

Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks

Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data...

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped

The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat....

Splat’s app uses AI to turn your photos into coloring pages for kids

The app turns your own photos into pages for your kids to color, via...

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve...

Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout

Waymo suspended its SF robotaxi service on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared...

The future of rail: Watching, predicting, and learning

A recent industry report [PDF] argues that Britain’s railway network could carry an extra...

Disney is embedding generative AI into its operating model

For a company built on intellectual property, scale creates a familiar tension. Disney needs...

Arm and the future of AI at the edge

Arm Holdings has positioned itself at the centre of AI transformation. In a wide-ranging...

Inside China’s push to apply AI across its energy system

Under China’s push to clean up its energy system, AI is starting to shape...

Tesco signs three-year AI deal centred on customer experience

For large retailers, the challenge with AI isn’t whether it can be useful, but...

Marketing agencies using AI in workflows serve more clients

Of all the many industries, it’s marketing where AI is no longer an “innovation...

50,000 Copilot licences for Indian service companies

Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro have announced plans to deploy more than...

Zara’s use of AI shows how retail workflows are quietly changing

Zara is testing how far generative AI can be pushed into everyday retail operations,...

AI in Human Resources: the real operational impact

Human Resources is an area in many organisations where AI can have significant operational...

Wall Street’s AI gains are here — banks plan for fewer people

By December 2025, AI adoption on Wall Street had moved past experiments inside large...

Ensuring effective AI in insurance operations

Artificial intelligence has been part of the insurance sector for years – the Finance...

AstraZeneca leads big pharma’s AI clinical trials revolution with real-world patient impact

Big Pharma’s AI race extends across drug discovery, development, and clinical trials—but AstraZeneca has...