Inside the Biden Administration’s Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future
What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?...
14 agosto, 2025
A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation
Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated....
14 agosto, 2025
The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops August 27
After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from around the globe, TechCrunch is just days away from announcing the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200....
14 agosto, 2025
Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down
Cohere's market proposition has always been to offer secure LLMs specifically geared for enterprise use, not for consumers....
14 agosto, 2025
Loveable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months
Loveable is a vibe coding startup growing phenomenally quickly, according to new sales projections from CEO Anton Osika. ...
14 agosto, 2025
Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids
The standards also allow the bots to make "statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics," such as "black people are dumber than white people." ...
14 agosto, 2025
Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever
It humorously calls this family the Model Zoo because one is like the size of a fly's brain and the other the size of a chicken's....
14 agosto, 2025
Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up
Google has launched Flight Deals as its AI tool within Google Flights to help travelers find cheaper fares....
14 agosto, 2025
Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Aaron Levie of Box joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in October....
14 agosto, 2025
Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer
Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams....
14 agosto, 2025
Senators Press Howard Lutnick’s Former Investment Firm Over Tariff Conflict of Interest Concerns
Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are demanding answers from Cantor Fitzgerald after WIRED reported that the firm was essentially creating a way for clients to bet on whether Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in court....
14 agosto, 2025
Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself
Anytime you expect AI to be self-aware, you’re in for disappointment. That’s just not how it works....
14 agosto, 2025
The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale
Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the elusive solution to K4, the outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters....
14 agosto, 2025
Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company
Igor Babuschkin is leaving xAI less than three years after he co-founded the startup with Elon Musk, following a series of scandals at company....
13 agosto, 2025
Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi
Waymo now lets you stream music straight from Spotify, which makes the back seat of a robotaxi feel more like your own private space....
13 agosto, 2025
India’s Rapido begins testing food delivery to take on Swiggy, Zomato
Rapido's beta food delivery service has popped up in three key localities in Bengaluru before a broader rollout....
13 agosto, 2025
GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence
Researchers studying the emotional impact of tools like ChatGPT propose a new kind of benchmark that measures a model’s emotional and social impact....
13 agosto, 2025
Monarch Tractors won’t be built by Foxconn after Ohio factory sale
Monarch's tractors were the only vehicles being built by Foxconn in Ohio after Lordstown Motors, Fisker Inc., and IndiEV went bankrupt....
13 agosto, 2025
Pocket FM gives its writers an AI tool to transform narratives, write cliffhangers, and more
Pocket FM is building LLM to help users write faster and in turn, produce more audio shows....
13 agosto, 2025
Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up
While an Anthropic spokesperson confirmed that the AI firm did not acquire Humanloop or its IP, that’s a moot point in an industry where IP lives in the brain. And what Humanloop’s team is bringing to Anthropic is experience developing the tools that help enterprises...
13 agosto, 2025
Women are making real progress in venture capital, and the numbers prove it
A new report by the nonprofit All Raise found that the percentage of women and nonbinary individuals in partner roles at leading firms has doubled in the past few years, despite market headwinds. All Raise CEO Paige Hendrix Buckner chatted with TechCrunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis about...
13 agosto, 2025
NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers
To fund its vision of building more energy efficient server CPUs. NeoLogic recently raised a $10 million Series A round led by KOMPAS VC with participation from M Ventures, Maniv Mobility and lool Ventures....
13 agosto, 2025
ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated
GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that's not how it's panned out....
13 agosto, 2025
Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink
Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger....
12 agosto, 2025
Trump Family–Backed World Liberty Financial Sets Up $1.5 Billion Crypto Treasury
World Liberty Financial has struck a deal that will turn a little-known company into a vehicle for betting on the price of its crypto coin....
12 agosto, 2025
AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025
The number of AI companion apps has grown more than 60% since 2024....
12 agosto, 2025
Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats
David Petrou, founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass, wants to enhance group chats with AI....
12 agosto, 2025
Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised
Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer....
12 agosto, 2025
Anthropic’s Claude AI model can now handle longer prompts
Anthropic's popular coding model just became a little more enticing for developers with a million token context window....
12 agosto, 2025
In a world of vibe coding startups, Uno Platform is targeting enterprise developers
And its finding customers and investors, including $2.54 million in seed funding....
12 agosto, 2025
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