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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street...
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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff wi...
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come
The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for...
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Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren...
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Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to...
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In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging F...
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Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across da...
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Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming
Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling in...
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Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag
Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.
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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting op...
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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M
The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human i...
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Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-c...