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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Energy Top A Busy Lineup Of Large Rounds
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus…
Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments,…
Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
For Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma, the eureka moment came after years of working as a software developer at a…
We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
In a tan polo shirt, brown leather belt, and round bolo tie, MIT PhD student Wil Norton kind of looks like a…
a16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI
I wrote this week about the bleak economics of consumer AI — but where some see a crisis, others see an…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise
Four days. That’s all that stands between now and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, when 10,000 founders,…
Why Customer Workflows Are Becoming The Moat In The AI Era
Imagine an insurance company testing two AI assistants. Both understand customer questions, respond naturally…
Last Week in AI #346 - 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation
Top NewsOpenAI publishes hundreds of math proofs from unreleased frontier modelSources:OpenAI drops another…
SpaceX to send Nvidia chips ‘somewhere in the universe’
SpaceX, the world’s greatest rocketry, AI, and social media company, claimed in its IPO prospectus in June…
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth…
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week,…
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret…
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models,…
OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Lucas…
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic…
Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
In Brief Posted: 11:16 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Russell…
OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet
When OpenAI released hundreds of claimed solutions to some of the world’s hardest math problems this week,…
Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
Meet Interface, a new $99 smart ring from AI and hardware startup Natura that’s designed for the era of AI…
Hear from Ambrosia Energy and Bloom Energy execs on where the AI infrastructure boom is creating opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
AI may be built in software, but scaling it is becoming a physical-world problem. Every new model, agent, and…
Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a new AI agent…
5 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Don’t pay more at the door for your pass
Five days from now, the global tech ecosystem gathers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 at San Francisco’s Moscone…
Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
Earlier in April, Google released an AI-powered dictation tool that worked with local models. Now, the same…
China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Chinese AI lab Manus’ parent company, Butterfly Effect, said on Thursday in a WeChat post that it has…
Exclusive: Gudea Lands $7M To Predict Which Online Narratives Will Go Viral
Gudea has raised $7 million in seed funding to help companies anticipate which online narratives will go…