Startups & FundingAnthropic
Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI assistant, has received multiple pre-emptive investment offers at valuations between...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk testified for the second day in his legal attempt to dismantle OpenAI, with his own tweets being used as...
TechCrunch AI
AI AgentsMeta
Meta is still burning money on AR/VR
Meta is spending billions on its Reality Labs division for AR/VR development while also significantly increasing AI...
TechCrunch AI
LLMMicrosoft
Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal
Microsoft has secured a deal to offer OpenAI's technology to its cloud customers without paying additional licensing...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’
Elon Musk testified in court during the third day of his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, with tensions...
Wired AI
Personal AssistantsMicrosoft
Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it
Microsoft announced it has over 20 million paid Copilot users with growing engagement, countering perceptions that the...
TechCrunch AI
AI AgentsGoogle
Google Cloud surpasses $20B, but says growth was capacity-constrained
Google Cloud exceeded $20B in quarterly revenue for the first time, driven by strong AI demand. However, the company...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Glean's Model Aims to Redefine Enterprise Search With AI
Glean is redefining enterprise search using AI-powered models, with insights from Waldo highlighting the need for...
AI Business
Ethics & Regulation
Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models
Researchers have developed WRING, a new debiasing technique for AI vision models that addresses the "whac-a-mole...
MIT News AI
Ethics & Regulation
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
Emergency first responders have raised concerns with federal regulators that Waymo's autonomous vehicle technology was...
Wired AI
Ethics & Regulation
Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why
Scammers are using AI-generated deepfake videos of celebrity interviews to deceive TikTok users into sharing personal...
Wired AI
Personal AssistantsGoogle
Google Search queries hit an ‘all time high’ last quarter
Google reported record-high search queries in Q1 2026, driven by AI experiences and the Gemini App, which contributed...
The Verge AI
LLMOpenAI
Where the goblins came from
The article examines how 'goblin outputs' spread through AI models, specifically analyzing quirks and...
OpenAI Blog
Research & Papers
Top 10 KV Cache Compression Techniques for LLM Inference: Reducing Memory Overhead Across Eviction, Quantization, and Low-Rank Methods
The article discusses 10 KV cache compression techniques for optimizing Large Language Model inference, covering...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway’s CEO thinks world models are next
Runway, a New York-based AI video generation company, has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation and...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise
Parallel Web Systems, an AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised $100 million in...
TechCrunch Startups
Ethics & RegulationMistral
Mistral's Le Chat spreads Iran war disinformation in 60 percent of leading prompts
A NewsGuard audit discovered that Mistral's Le Chat chatbot repeats state-sponsored disinformation about the Iran war...
The Decoder
AI AgentsOpenAI
AWS Launches Managed Agents with OpenAI Partnership
AWS has launched a managed agents service in partnership with OpenAI that abstracts away the need for customers to...
AI Business
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman
The Musk v. Altman trial is revealing evidence from OpenAI's founding, including emails, documents, and photos showing...
The Verge AI