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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
E-commerce software maker Shopify seems to be benefiting handily from people using AI to search. On the…
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff,…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals
At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a…
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
In Brief Posted: 7:13 AM PDT · August 5, 2026 Image Credits:MirageC / Getty Images Rebecca Bellan Anthropic…
🔮 Seven lessons for managing AI agents
In April 2025, we shared our seven lessons for building with AI. Many still hold. But agents have changed how…
MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
Ukraine-based app developer MacPaw has partnered with Liquid AI to power its products with locally hosted AI…
‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs
Editor’s note: The following is the first profile in a series of articles in coming weeks about startup…
Your AI Strategy May Be Destroying Your Exit Value
It seems that more and more boards and founders view AI as a valuation enhancer and future-proof strategy.…
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops…
Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness just went from $45 billion in assets at the…
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the…
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and…
Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you.…
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has already grown…
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined…
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits
Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve…
Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
Elon Musk wants you to believe Tesla is no longer a car company, even if it’s still shaped like one. The…
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Apple is now seeking a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets case against OpenAI, which aims to stop…
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called…
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers
As hyperscalers build out data centers around the world, they need to move the bits back and forth, and that…
A Record 14 Billion-Dollar Rounds In July Pushed Venture’s Historic Run Higher
Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July. Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year…
After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for…
Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents
All systems based on chatbots can be prompt injected. You can always tell the bot to do things it…
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big
Vibe-coding startup Superblocks announced a multiyear joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services…