Tilly Norwood's press tour is going about as well as you'd expect for an AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling·23d ago
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for seventy-five...
A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·23d ago
Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm.
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Julie Bort·23d ago
Anthropic has confirmed that it has a wet biology lab where it can use its AI models to run physical experiments. AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease.
AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aditya Mehta·23d ago
Military aircraft were already in the air this spring when U.S. officials made an alarming discovery: the intelligence driving an armed operation against a Chinese vessel had been hallucinated by...
Anthropic's first embedded evaluator is ... Accenture? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·24d ago
Dario Amodei’s plans to put third-party safety evaluators inside AI labs are taking shape: Anthropic said that staff from technology consulting giant Accenture will begin working inside the company...
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·24d ago
This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance to dig into one of the most mysterious corners of the AI world.
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·24d ago
ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the model-training technique...
In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·24d ago
For some iPhone buyers in India, getting Apple’s brand-new iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max did not require lining up outside a store or waiting days for delivery.
Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·24d ago
Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent.
Joby Aviation's 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·24d ago
An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation’s autonomy technology flew more than 3,100 miles across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point, the company said Friday.
Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ram Iyer·24d ago
Chinese AI startup Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation now that it has resumed operations as an...
Family offices are clamoring for AI investments | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·24d ago
For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is simple, according to Djoann Fal, a family office advisor and investor at the private wealth...
FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading towards US coast | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker·24d ago
Cybersecurity teams with the U.S. Coast Guard and the FBI boarded two U.S.-bound oil tankers last month after hackers reportedly compromised at least one of the ship’s networks and took control of...
NVIDIA’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes join Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·24d ago
You have an AI product to build. Do you choose a proprietary frontier model and get moving quickly? Build on an open model and gain greater control? Fine-tune your own version? Run locally?
I’m so mad that I love Orion's $2,195 AI mattress pad | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling·24d ago
When Orion asked if I wanted to test its $2,195 AI-enabled mattress pad, I agreed purely because I thought it would be funny to write about. I mean, come on.
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·24d ago
The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life.
Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·24d ago
Jeff Lawson has already helped build a company with more than $4 billion in revenue and 300,000 customers worldwide.
Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aditya Mehta, Rebecca Bellan·24d ago
In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses...
Final 24 hours to exhibit at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·24d ago
Exhibit table bookings close tonight, Friday, September 18, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, you cannot add your startup to the Expo Hall. Tables are limited and first come, first served.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular "AI factories" | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·24d ago
Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion.
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