Google looks to tackle longstanding RCS spam in India — but not alone
Google is integrating carrier-level filtering into RCS in India through a partnership with Airtel to strengthen protections against spam....
Google is integrating carrier-level filtering into RCS in India through a partnership with Airtel to strengthen protections against spam....
TechCrunch spoke with VCs to learn what investors aren't looking for in AI SaaS startups anymore....
By CEO Sam Altman’s own admission, OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense was “definitely rushed,” and “the optics don’t look good.”...
What's behind the SaaSpocalypse? It simply seems a new supreme has risen....
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them....
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon....
OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic....
China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market....
India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order....
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down....
"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post....
President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military....
In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with non-consensual nude images....
Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI....
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge....
OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding....
The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits...
Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort....
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system." ...
While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry....
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening....
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Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal's new wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in a friends-and-family round at a post-money valuation of about $190 million....
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation....
Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro promises 15-day battery life and a $479 price tag as the wearables maker expands its health-tech push....
Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes....
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables....
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems....
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down....
Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada brand....