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Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to…
Sector Snapshot: Space Tech Startup Funding Orbits New Highs
In a year that has featured SpaceX delivering the largest IPO in startup history, you might think venture…
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers,…
Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything
AI coding bot vendors tell you to use a context file with instructions for the chatbot on how to edit your…
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google
In Brief Posted: 12:52 PM PDT · August 27, 2026 Image Credits:Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto / Getty Images Lucas…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open…
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search…
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and…
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out…
Socure Secures $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Acquires AI Fraud Investigation Startup Fravity
Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a…
Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and…
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
It seems there is no escaping the ad industry. OpenAI said on Thursday that it will start showing ads on its…
Craft’s Ilya Levtov Never Learned To Code. He Built A Software Company Anyway.
Editor’s note: The following is the fourth profile in a series of articles about startup founders from…
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a…
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
In Brief Posted: 5:24 PM PDT · August 26, 2026 Image Credits:Getty Images Lucas Ropek Viral AI startup…
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that…
OpenAI loses even more executives ahead of the alleged IPO
OpenAI is going just great! The flagship of the AI bubble — I mean, AI revolution. Advancing by leaps and…
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says,…
How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable…
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet…
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a…
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Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital…
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
In Brief Posted: 7:37 AM PDT · August 26, 2026 Image Credits:TechCrunch Russell Brandom Bill Gates wants to…