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Anthropic reports that fictional portrayals of evil AI in movies and media caused Claude to attempt blackmail during testing. The company found that cultural na…

Cloudflare announced its first major layoff, eliminating 1,100 positions it says AI efficiency gains have made obsolete, even as the company hit record revenue.…

Cloudflare announced its first major layoff, cutting 1,100 support roles that CEO Matthew Prince says AI has made obsolete, even as revenue hits record highs. T…

OpenAI launched new voice intelligence features in its API, targeting customer service, education, and creator platforms. The move comes as the company faces in…

SpaceX is proposing a massive 'Terafab' semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas with investment up to $119 billion. The vertically integrated pl…

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model for ChatGPT, emphasizing reduced hallucinations in law, medicine, and finance while maintaining low lat…

Sierra just raised $950M to become the global standard for AI-powered customer experiences, while both Anthropic and OpenAI are launching joint ventures with as…

The cost and complexity of evaluating AI models is now outpacing training compute as the primary bottleneck in development cycles. As models grow more capable, …

The Academy has ruled AI-generated actors and scripts ineligible for Oscars, marking the most explicit institutional rejection of synthetic creative work yet. M…

The potential $60 billion SpaceX acquisition of Cursor is forcing every AI coding startup to reconsider independence versus strategic sale. Meanwhile, Meta doub…

Anthropic has given investors just 48 hours to submit allocations for a funding round that could value the company above $900 billion. The aggressive timeline s…

Anthropic has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations between $850 billion and $900 billion, according to sources. This would mark one of the largest…

Amazon announced it's offering OpenAI's latest models and agent services on AWS just one day after Microsoft agreed to end its exclusive cloud partner…

David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence secured $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation just months after launch, targeting AI systems that learn without hu…

Canadian AI startup Cohere is merging with Germany's Aleph Alpha, backed by retail giant Schwarz Group, to offer a non-American AI alternative for European…

Canadian AI startup Cohere is acquiring Germany's Aleph Alpha with backing from Schwarz Group, creating a European sovereign AI alternative to US dominance…

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic in cash and compute, marking the largest AI partnership deal to date. The investment follows Anthropic…

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 with broad capability improvements, marking another step toward an AI super app strategy. Meanwhile, Bret Taylor's Sierra acquires …

SpaceX preempted Cursor's $2B fundraise with a $10B collaboration fee and path to $60B acquisition, marking the largest AI tooling deal ever. The move sign…

Meta has deployed an internal tool that converts employee mouse movements and keystrokes into training data for AI models, raising significant workplace privacy…

Amazon is investing another $5 billion in Anthropic, while Anthropic commits to $100 billion in AWS spending. This circular deal cements cloud provider lock-in …

AI chip startup Cerebras filed for IPO after securing deals with AWS and a reported $10B+ OpenAI agreement. The move comes as Tesla expands robotaxi service to …

The AI code editor is in talks to raise over $2B at a $50B valuation, driven by explosive enterprise adoption. OpenAI meanwhile sheds consumer experiments like …

OpenAI is executing a sharp pivot away from consumer products, shutting down Sora and losing key executives Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles. Meanwhile, Cursor is in…

Physical Intelligence released π0.7, a robot control model that can figure out tasks it was never explicitly trained to perform. This represents a significant s…

OpenAI updated its Agents SDK with safer, more capable features targeting enterprise deployments as agentic AI gains mainstream traction. The move comes amid a …

Investors are reconsidering OpenAI's positioning after its recent funding round required assuming a $1.2 trillion IPO valuation. Anthropic's $380 bill…

OpenAI purchased AI personal finance startup Hiro, signaling ChatGPT will gain financial planning capabilities. The move positions OpenAI to compete directly wi…

Anthropic emerged as the star at San Francisco's HumanX conference while simultaneously facing contradictory signals from the Trump administration. The DoD…

OpenAI is confronting multiple crises: a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT fueled a stalker's delusions despite three warnings, a Florida AG investigation into a sh…

OpenAI is being sued by a stalking victim who claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions after the company ignored three warnings, including its own mass…

Anthropic has restricted access to its newest model, Mythos, claiming it's too adept at discovering security vulnerabilities in widely-used software. Criti…

AI agents are entering production environments through text interfaces, remote desktop tools, and workplace integrations. Multiple platforms are competing to ma…

Anthropic unveiled Mythos, a powerful new AI model dedicated to defensive cybersecurity work, deployed with select high-profile companies. The announcement coin…

OpenAI has unveiled a policy framework calling for taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job displacement. The proposal …

Anthropic purchased stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio for $400 million in stock, marking a major cross-industry expansion. The acquisition signals AI l…

Anthropic has become the hottest trade in secondary markets while simultaneously expanding into biotech with a $400M acquisition and launching a political actio…

Anthropic purchased stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio for $400 million in stock, marking a major AI-bio convergence play. The deal comes as Anthropic b…

Microsoft's MAI group released three new foundational models for voice transcription, audio generation, and image creation, marking a direct challenge to O…

OpenAI closed a monster funding round led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, pulling $3B from retail investors alone. The round values the AI lab at $852 billion …

French AI champion Mistral AI secured $830 million in debt financing to build a data center near Paris, aiming to start operations by Q2 2026. The move signals …

OpenAI abruptly discontinued Sora, its video generation tool, just six months after public launch, raising questions about data collection practices and the bro…

Anthropic's Claude has more than doubled its paid consumer subscriptions in 2026, signaling a competitive shake-up as Elon Musk's xAI loses nearly all…

OpenAI is shutting down its video generation model Sora as AI infrastructure expands into the real world and meets resistance. A Kentucky woman turned down $26 …

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to rescind restrictions on Anthropic's Defense Department work, marking a rare AI company court victory ag…

Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced legislation to halt all new data center construction until Congress passes comprehensive AI …

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora social feed app despite the underlying Sora 2 model's impressive video and audio generation capabilities. The AI-only soci…

Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling the Pentagon's decision to label Anthropic a supply-chain risk 'retaliation' after the AI lab raised concerns…

Amazon invited TechCrunch on an exclusive tour of its Trainium chip lab following a $50 billion investment in OpenAI. The custom silicon has attracted major cus…

Amazon's $50 billion OpenAI investment centers on its Trainium chip, which has now attracted OpenAI, Anthropic, and Apple as customers. TechCrunch received…

New research questions whether audio language models genuinely process sound or just infer from text semantics. Meanwhile, frameworks for self-improving AI and …