From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Listen to the full...
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After five deadline extensions and several rounds of negotiations, President Trump signed an executive order to put TikTok’s US operations in the hands of Oracle and other American investors....
Amazon will pay both the Federal Trade Commission and consumers directly to settle a lawsuit alleging that it used manipulative and deceptive tactics to encourage sign-ups for Prime....
The investigation was sparked by a story in The Guardian that reported that Unit 8200, the elite Israel military intelligence unit, was using Azure cloud storage to house data on phone calls obtained through the surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. ...
The price hike for H1B visas could have detrimental impact on the startup industry, experts say....
Subscribers to ChatGPT's $200-a-month Pro plan will get to try out Pulse, OpenAI's latest agent product....
The recruiting startup has over 2,500 customers, including recruiters at Perplexity, Ramp and OpenAI....
Food supply chains are notoriously messy. Orders arrive through different channels, staff spend hours manually entering them into clunky enterprise software systems, and compliance often depends on spreadsheets. For decades, software vendors have tried, with mixed success, to modernize the workflows behind the global movement...
A new test from OpenAI aims to understand how close AI is to outperforming humans at economically valuable work....
xAI has reached a deal with the U.S. GSA to sell Grok to federal agencies for 42 cents over 18 months, undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic....
From dating apps and AI-powered matchmaking to full-on digital companionship, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a third party in our most personal relationships. But is it truly helping us find deeper connection — or just reshaping romance into an algorithmic illusion?...
Doorstep integrates into existing delivery apps and then, using phone sensors, tracks when a driver has entered a building, gone up an elevator, and made it to the desired doorstep. ...
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The AI platform Clarifai has launched a new reasoning engine that it claims will make running AI models twice as fast and 40% less expensive....
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Databricks is on the hook to pay at least $100 million to OpenAI in this deal, even if customer usage falls short. It's a bet, but one that Databricks has already hedged....
Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones....
For the first time, US residents can now invest in memecoins through traditional brokerages. Trading will only get stranger from here....
Nothing is making its affordable devices brand CMF into a separate entity with headquarters in India....
While the industry's biggest players cement ever-tighter partnerships, Google is hellbent on capturing the next generation of AI companies before they become too big to court....
Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs....
The program allows students to apply while still in school, get accepted and funded immediately, and defer their participation in YC until after they graduate....
Medical device funding is hitting levels we haven’t seen since 2021, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies. While innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem still hasn’t changed: Critical medical hardware like MRI machines cost millions of dollars and is limited to...
Medical device funding is hitting levels we haven’t seen since 2021, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies. But while innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem still hasn’t changed: Critical medical hardware (like MRI machines) costs millions of dollars and is gatekept...
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies....
A fresh $100 million and an interesting partnership with AMD has slightly bumped Cohere's valuation up....
A single AI model trained to control numerous robotic bodies can operate unfamiliar hardware and adapt eerily well to serious injuries....
Microsoft is integrating OpenAI rival Anthropic's AI into Copilot, marking another step towards the disentangling of Microsoft and OpenAI....
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, GTM pros Max Altschuler, Alison Wagonfeld, and Marc Manara take the Builders Stage to show founders how to build a go-to-market engine that doesn’t just support the product, but also scales with it....