Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the U.S. government to ban several…
Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs
Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti…
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid…
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Karpathy hasn’t shared many updates on Eureka Labs since its launch, and it’s not…
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe
The rollout of FSD in Europe hasn't been fast or furious — regulatory scrutiny…
Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app
One of the common features for companies to build in the age of AI…
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups
"Investors can't call it out," a VC told TechCrunch. "Everyone has a company monetizing…
OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
OpenRouter, the unified gateway and API for Large Language Models founded in 2023, has…
Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers
By reducing appointment prep time, these summaries give oncologists more time with their patients.…
Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
Glean, a company often described as the Google for enterprise, said it has reached…
DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
As its traffic continues to climb, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning into anti-AI…
New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions
In a bid to make that testing process simpler, Microsoft on Tuesday took the…
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
But that still wouldn't surface the kind of small websites that are maintained by…
Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data
By applying the location data ban to both residents and visitors, the Massachusetts law…
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station
It will also need it to hold its ground in a crowded field of…
ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet
Cloud technology giant ServiceNow has notified some of its enterprise customers that a software…
