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Over the weekend, the tech community was abuzz with speculation regarding the origin of Ox Alpha, an anonymous open-weight AI model recently launched on OpenRouter. This model has quickly surged to th...
Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the tools that gave us Large Language Models to robotics. That excitement helped deliver a big...
Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google sysops engineer. When hackers backed by China set their sights on the search giant as part of an effort dubbed Operation Aurora...
Making AI agents effective is proving more difficult than anticipated for many organizations. Fortunately, a new wave of startups is addressing this challenge by developing superior methods to test an...
Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, yet only about 20% of those with diagnosed hearing loss seek treatment. Legato, a new hearing technology company, aims to clos...
Microsoft’s cofounder used to be optimistic about AI, now he’s concerned it could be ‘the worst source of injustice.’ Microsoft’s cofounder used to be optimistic about AI, now he’s concerned it could...
As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startupRunableis betting the next opportunity lies in what comes after: finding customers and helping businesses...
Arduino and Qualcomm have opened preorders for the Ventuno Q, an edge AI board designed to execute agentic AI models locally. Featuring the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 processor, which offers up to 40 TOP...
ChatGPT’s AI agent that’s designed to get things done can now sign in to websites to do things like book a DMV appointment, cancel a reservation, or fill out a job application without OpenAI ever seei...
More than76% of consumersin India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study from Truecaller. Since voice is still consumers’ preferred way to communicate, that leaves...
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The fresh capital totals nearly $200 mil...
OpenAI has lost yet another executive, and the timing of this one stands out in particular given this individual oversaw the execution of the company’s data center strategy. Chris Malone, OpenAI’s for...
All the latest updates on AI data centers TheWall Street JournalandBloombergreport that Chris Malone, a “key executive” leading OpenAI’s massive build-out plans, left the company last week. TheWSJrepo...
All the latest updates on AI data centers Proposals for new gas-fired power capacity tied to data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026, according to aGlobal Energy Monitor report. Nearly a...
Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding. The new haul brings the company’s fundraising total to $232 million. The compan...
A change to Claude’s memory system will eliminate one of the most annoying things about using agents — the constant need to rebrief the AI on things it already knows. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced i...
Anthropic has added memory to Cowork, and it’s the same one Claude’s chatbot already uses, making it easier to pick up tasks without re-explaining important information. Memory is on by default, but w...
The Wall Street Journalreports that Anthropic is “likely to tell investors its potential revenue opportunities are above $30 trillion” — topping SpaceX’s fever dreamof a mere $28.5 trillion. It would...
Perplexity AI: the answer engine with a lot of question marks Unlike thecomputer-controlling AI tool Perplexitylaunched earlier this year, the Portable Computer feature runs AI models fully locally an...
Presentation startupGammahas acquired Accel-backed design startupLicain a bid to build out its own design research lab, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Lica’s co-founders will lead the effort. Lic...
At the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled details regarding Jalapeño, featuring the initial batch of benchmark results for the new system. Evaluated against Semianalysis’s InferenceX ben...
Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia’s superchips on an AI inference benchmark test. Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia’s superchips on an AI inference benchmark test. OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, complet...
Alongside a financial research agent, Google has launched a new AI legal tool designed to assist law firms in drafting legal briefs, managing upcoming regulations, and verifying citations. This capabi...
Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can’t spare the time or attention required to scan entire webpages. But as people increasingly use AI chatbots to search the web and do tasks, t...
