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Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B TechCrunch
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African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts — African defense…
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Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project TechCrunch
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Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ TechCrunch
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Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work TechCrunch
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Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a "turf war" over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a “turf war” over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more — What…
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OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT 5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed
OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT 5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed TechCrunch
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IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push TechCrunch
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Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. TechCrunch
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OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues TechCrunch
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X makes the source code for its For You timeline available on GitHub and adds tools to let users see if X's ranking systems "shadowbanned" them (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X makes the source code for its For You timeline available on GitHub and adds tools to let users see if X's ranking systems “shadowbanned” them — X is significantly expanding…
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Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out — The streaming platform Twitch will now…
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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes TechCrunch
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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise TechCrunch
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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, up from $60M after it raised a $10M Series A in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, up from $60M after it raised a $10M Series A in 2025 — As AI makes coding…
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Bengaluru-based Yulu, which gets ~95% of its revenue from renting e-bikes to gig workers, raised a $93M Series C, sources say at a ~$170M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Yulu, which gets ~95% of its revenue from renting e-bikes to gig workers, raised a $93M Series C, sources say at a ~$170M post-money valuation — As India's…
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Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M — Decentralized social network…
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux TechCrunch
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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’ TechCrunch
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An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems TechCrunch
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Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models TechCrunch
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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer TechCrunch
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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model TechCrunch
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YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 — YouTube announced on…
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Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, expanding support beyond PayPal and Cash App (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, expanding support beyond PayPal and Cash App — Google said that it is…
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Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more — Listen on Apple Podcasts…
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A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — What every U.K…
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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide TechCrunch
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OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns TechCrunch
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Cloudflare debuts Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta in Browser Run (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Cloudflare debuts Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta in Browser Run — Cloudflare is the…
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Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth — The customer support…
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Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M — Developers detest…
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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 TechCrunch
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ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users TechCrunch
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WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation — The new deep learning…
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OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case
OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case TechCrunch
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Nikita Bier steps down as head of product at X after a little more than a year in the role and says he will continue as an adviser (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Nikita Bier steps down as head of product at X after a little more than a year in the role and says he will continue as an adviser — Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X…
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Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships TechCrunch
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Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release — Hark, a startup that raised…
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Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas starting August 10, launching its commercial operations after offering free rides since last year (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas starting August 10, launching its commercial operations after offering free rides since last year — Nearly a year ago, Zoox…
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Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team TechCrunch
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SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth TechCrunch
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Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta TechCrunch
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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI TechCrunch
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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated TechCrunch
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Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG — Several popular…
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Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip TechCrunch
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Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Kate Park / TechCrunch: Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation — Cybersecurity startup…
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June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures — It's so hard for big…
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YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage "is not healthy for me or good for the world" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a…