AI Agents
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
IBM's stock declined after the company reported weak mainframe sales, which the CEO attributed to AI temporarily...
TechCrunch AI
Other Companies
Coding Co-pilot
Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
Cursor has launched Cursor Router, a request-level classifier that intelligently routes coding tasks to the most...
MarkTechPost
AI Agents
Research-Grade EdgeBench Analysis: AI Agent Benchmarking, Leaderboard Analytics, Scaling Laws, and Evaluation Metrics
This tutorial explores EdgeBench, a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across diverse task...
MarkTechPost
Ethics & Regulation
The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
The Trump administration is debating policy approaches to address the growing capabilities of Chinese AI models. This...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
Startup Focused on Enterprise AI Security Valued at $1.2 billion
An enterprise AI security startup has raised funding and achieved a $1.2 billion valuation as cybersecurity concerns...
AI Business
LLM
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
Chinese AI laboratories are offering open-source large language models as alternatives to restricted frontier models...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Travis Kalanick's robotics company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in funding led by a16z, with Uber also investing. The...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads
Yope, a private social networking app, raised $12.3 million in seed funding to build communities focused on real-world...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
Monday.com is reducing its workforce by 20% (approximately 630 employees) to streamline operations and focus on its AI...
TechCrunch AI
Research & Papers
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, a highly influential computer scientist known for his clear writing and...
MIT News AI
Ethics & Regulation
Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic and found that all of them...
The Decoder
LLM
Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
Cisco has released two small, open-source AI models specifically designed for cybersecurity that detect approximately...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, argues that Chinese AI models pose no inherent danger, contributing to ongoing debate...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & Regulation
Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
Substack has introduced a tool that estimates how much of a newsletter was written using AI, promoting transparency in...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
Google Cloud, Nvidia Collaborate With German Startup for AI Robots
Microagi, a German startup, is collaborating with Google Cloud and Nvidia to develop task-specific embodied AI models...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
Agibot Expands Embodied AI Portfolio With Four New Products
Chinese robotics company Agibot has expanded its embodied AI product portfolio with four new offerings, targeting...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
SenseTime’s Galaxy Project targets domestic AI chip scale-up
SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project in partnership with nearly 20 companies to scale domestic AI chip...
AI News
Startups & Funding
This Time Is Different: Why AI Is Unlike Any Wave I Have Seen In 40 Years Of Financial Services
AI will fundamentally transform the financial services industry by reducing marginal operating costs to near-zero and...
Crunchbase News
Ethics & Regulation
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
Nearly 200 US utility companies and data center developers have signed President Trump's 'rate payer protection pledge'...
The Verge AI