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Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.
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Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.
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The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.
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"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
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Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
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At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
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Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
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Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic, is now an Android app.
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AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]
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This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Ethics
From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
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Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
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The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI ToolsAI in Learning
OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Platforms
Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.
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River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Evaluation
Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by default.
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Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI GovernanceAIAI Ethics
OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
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On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.
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An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.
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Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
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Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI InfrastructureAI
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Platforms
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI InfrastructureAI Evaluation
AI has already had a significant impact on Amazon’s carbon emissions, which it reported were up 16% last year — the wrong direction for a company that pledged to eliminate its carbon emissions by 2040.
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NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
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OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SafetyAI GovernanceAI Ethics
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
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Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
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Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old “town hall in your pocket” or Anthropic’s Claude constitution, it’s a theory that doesn’t paint Silicon Valley in a very flattering light.   In Lepore’s upcoming book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, the Pulitzer […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
This generation of 20-somethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else -- even an AI matchmaker.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI in Learning
Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims that the allegedly stolen information was properly protected.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI LawsuitsAI GovernanceAI EthicsSuno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI GovernanceAI Ethics
The startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in real time.
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Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.
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The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.
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The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.
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Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI InfrastructureAI-agents
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
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The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
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Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
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On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
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Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
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MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
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WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI in Learning
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI SafetyAI Ethics
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAIThe week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI SecurityAI Governance
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI in LearningAI Ethics
An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI in Learning
Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.
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On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
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Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.
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After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
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AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.
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Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
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OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
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Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. Yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.
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House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAIAI Platforms
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI GovernanceAI EthicsDespite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
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Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
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OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
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OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
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India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
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A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
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After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI GovernanceAI EthicsSnapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI EthicsThe startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI InfrastructureAI-agents
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI GovernanceAI Ethics
After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI GovernanceAI EthicsThe former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI
Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI Revenue GrowthAI InfrastructureAI Competition
Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI in LearningAI Ethics
As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI ToolsAI
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
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The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAIAI-agents
Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace sellers, Instagram, and gaming.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Platforms
British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI InfrastructureAI
A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI
The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.
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The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
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Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI Platforms
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI-agents
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
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On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAIAI-agents
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
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Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI GovernanceAI EthicsAI-agentsAnother way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI InfrastructureAI Ethics
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI EthicsAI-agents
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Platforms
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI InfrastructureAI Platforms
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
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The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI-agents
Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Platforms
Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI in Learning
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SafetyAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI InfrastructureAI Governance
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.
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Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI ToolsAI Platforms
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SafetyAI GovernanceAI
Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAIAI Platforms
Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAIAI Ethics
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the entire economy.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI EducationAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Platforms
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.
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On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
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"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI TransparencyAI CollaborationA running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
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At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Hardware
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
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AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
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Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI EthicsAI Platforms
AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Ethics
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
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The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAIAI Platforms
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI SafetyAI Ethics
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI PlatformsWe spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
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AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI Competition
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAIAI Platforms
AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI EthicsAI-agents
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
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David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI in LearningAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI HardwareAI Infrastructure
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI in LearningAI InfrastructureAI Platforms
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAIAI EvaluationServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI in LearningAI CollaborationAI Platforms
After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI EconomicsAI Revenue GrowthAI
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI Revenue GrowthAI
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI InfrastructureAI EthicsUber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI Startup MetricsAI
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing, and AI features designed to strengthen real-world relationships.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI EducationAI in LearningAI Platforms
The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI InfrastructureAI Platforms
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAIAI Ethics
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI RegulationAI InfrastructureAnthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI GovernanceAI Platforms
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI InfrastructureAI-agents
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI EvaluationAI Platforms
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AIAI ServicesAI Competition
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI TestingAI SecurityAI Infrastructure
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Platforms
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AIAI Platforms
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AIAI Platforms
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI GovernanceAI EthicsAI Competition
Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI in LearningAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI HardwareAI Infrastructure
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI Governance
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI in LearningAI
YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI in LearningAI Infrastructure
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI HardwareAI LawsuitsAI Competition
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI Ethics
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI-agentsAI Evaluation
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI DevelopmentAI Infrastructure
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI EconomicsAI in LearningAI Infrastructure
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI GovernanceAI Ethics
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI InfrastructureAI-agents
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI
DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI-agents
You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI HardwareAI
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI DevelopmentAI
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI
The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI DevelopmentAIThe deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI in LearningAI GovernanceAI Platforms
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI GovernanceAI Competition
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Hardware
It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI DevelopmentAI Infrastructure
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAIAI Ethics
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI
Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SecurityAI
Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AICan a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others.   On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI GovernanceAI PlatformsAnthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI ServicesAI Platforms
The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI-agents
Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI InfrastructureAI
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI GovernanceAI-agents
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI Revenue GrowthAI Startup Metrics
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAIAI Research
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI HardwareAI GovernanceAI Ethics
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI GovernanceAI EthicsIf you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI EthicsAI Platforms
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI LawsuitsAI GovernanceAI EthicsDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI GovernanceAI
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Platforms
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI InfrastructureAI
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI InfrastructureAI EthicsSpotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI
With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AIAI Platforms
The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAIAI-agents
Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI GovernanceAI EthicsApple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI LawsuitsAI GovernanceAI EthicsResponding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI InfrastructureAI Ethics
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI SafetyAI GovernanceAI
Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI ToolsAI
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI LawsuitsAI GovernanceAI EthicsOpen source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI GovernanceAI Platforms
OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Ethics
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Ethics
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InfrastructureAI-agentsAI Platforms
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI InvestmentAI InfrastructureAI Revenue
Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DevelopmentAI-agentsAI Platforms
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI GovernanceLegal DisputesAI Ethics
While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required election ads to disclose.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI DisclosureAI EthicsAI Transparency
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI InfrastructureAI Platforms
"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI RegulationAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an AI-generated creation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Privacy ConcernsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI HardwareAI Infrastructure
Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sidelines.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI EconomicsAI InfrastructureAI Governance
Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI IPOsAI FinanceAI Valuation
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI EducationAI Platforms
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Infrastructure
Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIValuationAI Platforms
Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Ethics
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Evaluation
General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Architecture
The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Ethics
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Ethics
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Privacy ConcernsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI Ethics
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI DevelopmentAI Platforms
There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI Revenue GrowthAI Startup MetricsRevenue Expansion
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI GovernanceAI Ethics
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI InfrastructureAI Platforms
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI InfrastructureAI Platforms
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Privacy ConcernsAI GovernanceAI Ethics
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·AI EconomicsOpen Source AIAI Platforms
With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsWorkflows
The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIsecurityAI Ethics
Forterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI ToolsAI in Learning
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIsecurityAI Ethics
SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund·Open Source AIAI in LearningEducation AIMicrosoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundCognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAt Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic, is now an Android app.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThis new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundFrom the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundBlacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGoogle also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundRiver AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundFor more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSpotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by default.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOn Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAn OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMeta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDiscovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundProgramming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI has already had a significant impact on Amazon’s carbon emissions, which it reported were up 16% last year — the wrong direction for a company that pledged to eliminate its carbon emissions by 2040.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAfter its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundKitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAirbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundHistorian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old “town hall in your pocket” or Anthropic’s Claude constitution, it’s a theory that doesn’t paint Silicon Valley in a very flattering light.   In Lepore’s upcoming book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, the Pulitzer […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundTaking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThis generation of 20-somethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else -- even an AI matchmaker.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNewly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims that the allegedly stolen information was properly protected.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSuno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in real time.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMeta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundShopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOn our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundA new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSpotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAn analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundApple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOn Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundEndeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAfter a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDesign Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundApple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. Yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundHouse spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundJune emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOn the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDespite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGreen offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundIndia's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundA tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAfter years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSnapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundApple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAfter years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAfter OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundReddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAmazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundFriend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAs experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundLinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMeta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace sellers, Instagram, and gaming.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundBritish AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundA new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMicrosoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAs Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWhen Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOn the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAt TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWeng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnother way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAndon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundPangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSpur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundRunlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundHis change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSince launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundRecursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundCursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundCompanies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMicrosoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMeta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGoogle’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAt TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the entire economy.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThis $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAfter two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundForget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOn the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundA running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundA close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundUsers can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundChinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWe spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundClaude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundUsers can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDavid Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundEtched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundIf there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAfter IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGoogle's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundUber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundYope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing, and AI features designed to strengthen real-world relationships.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAs Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSubstack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGlow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSynthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAt last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundBuzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOver the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNew data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGoogle released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDeezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAlphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundTalk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAdobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundYouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundJensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOn the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundCurrent AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNeil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundFrom AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDatabricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundIf every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAgility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundIndia's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundPatreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundA $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundRoblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWith this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundYou may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDrawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWhile everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundApplied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMicrosoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundIt's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundLivestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMicrosoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundApple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundCan a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others.   On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAnthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundRime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundA number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundIf you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOvertone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundHachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundInstagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNow, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundReflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundHugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSpotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThey're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundUber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWith the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOf all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundApple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundResponding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWhat does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSome of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundApple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpen source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpen source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundLyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundShould Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMeta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNews publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWhile Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required election ads to disclose.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMuse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an AI-generated creation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundHaving proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sidelines.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThree big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundIn an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundBenchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundNilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundEarlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundElon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundGeneral Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWhen it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundMeta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundFounded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThere are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWhen it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundKevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundOpen source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundWith this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundThe company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundForterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundAn AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian NylundSK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.
techcrunch.com··Mads Kristian Nylund