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Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
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The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, NVIDIA, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register now to save up to $200 before Sept 25.
Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will bring Stretch 4 for a live demo on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before September 25 to save up to $200, plus get a second pass at 50% off.
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Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.
Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Save up to $200 before September 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now.
Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.
From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Lean in on this Builders Stage session. Save up to $200 before Sept 25.
Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a front-row seat to one of the most intense startup pitch competition.
On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.
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Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
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Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Watch […]
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. On […]
Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.
Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public