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When Traction Becomes Personal Exposure: What The Joonko Guilty Plea Means For Founders
False claims about customers, revenue and AI capabilities can expose founders to personal securities-fraud liability, with D&O insurance offering limited protection against established misconduct....
California Startups Have Raised More So Far In 2026 Than The Entire US Ever Has In A Single Year
California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year. That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share. And keep in mind: This year still has a...
Wall Street's fastest traders are building data centers and backing chip startups to stay ahead in AI
High-frequency traders like Jane Street and Hudson River Trading are now racing each other for AI computing power. The article Wall Street's fastest traders are building data centers and backing chip...
Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists
Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? They're all AI agents.
Toyota is betting $6.4 billion a year on humanoid robots and factory automation
Toyota wants to turn itself into a global robotics company, and it's betting on humanoid robots and factory automation to get there. The article Toyota is betting $6.4 billion a year on humanoid...
Apollo analysis shows no one besides the biggest tech giants is seeing benefits from AI
Despite all of the hype and the multiple millions of dollars invested in artificial intelligence, most of corporate America outside of its biggest technology firms is yet to see any financial payoff,...
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia's new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned...
What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad
Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark moves his prediction for self-improving AI forward to 2027
A new benchmark by P-Zero Research measures how well AI models design and evaluate experiments on their own. The results are improving so fast that Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark now thinks...
Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone
Anthropic says companies should evaluate whether they can consolidate sub-agents into a single agent that loads context on demand. In one architecture comparison, the single-agent setup ran about...
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every other country as a dependency. The race won't...
OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers
OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropic's growth has...
OpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models
Smartphone agents don't get better by processing more data. They improve by training on as many different apps as possible. The researchers behind OpenMobile-2 built an open training environment with...
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer. They deny sharing...
AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain...
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters
Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The LLM is a post-trained, or upgraded, version of an...
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment
Pathos AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $237 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation. Pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb Co. led the Series E round with participation from...
Hybrid infrastructure decisions put AI costs and control in focus
Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a cost-conscious phase, and hybrid infrastructure is where that reckoning plays out. As inference spending climbs, business leaders are weighing where...
What to expect during Intuit Connect: Join theCUBE Oct. 28
Will bringing automation into the financial industry prove disastrous or transformative? Intuit Inc., the financial technology company behind Credit Karma, QuickBooks and TurboTax, sees artificial...
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch,...
What to expect during Oracle AI World: Join theCUBE Oct. 28
The motivation behind database modernization has traditionally been greater efficiency and cost savings. Yet, theCUBE Research has also found that there is a larger prize at stake: AI projects built...
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives A Varied Lineup Of Large Financings
It was another interesting week for AI-related startup funding, with a number of large rounds and quirky companies. The largest financings went to Tenstorrent, a developer of AI processors and...
In AI, it’s a tale of two diverging investor classes
Depending on where you sit as an investor, artificial intelligence still looks like a massive opportunity, or it’s now looking way too risky given growing infrastructure investments and the public’s...
How to avoid AI’s ‘valley of despair’
Amdahl’s Law states that improving a single part of a system can only speed up the whole system so much. Even if one step of a process becomes exponentially faster, the other steps impose a ceiling...
The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Are we there yet? A reality check on six big tech promises...
Protecting Trade Secrets In The Age Of AI
AI agents create new trade secret risks by allowing employees to access expertise or inadvertently expose proprietary information through personal devices. In this guest commentary, Seth Kugler, a...
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Robot Training, Space Lasers And Greener Cement
From teaching robots to do everyday household chores to using lasers to track satellites in space, this month's crop of interesting startup deals spans some decidedly different corners of tech.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia
The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
Zoom’s next act: From video company to AI data platform
Since its launch, Zoom has been defined by one word: video. Customers, consumers, investors and competitors have long known Zoom as the industry’s easiest-to-use and best video platform. However,...
Report: OpenAI closing on $30B ‘bridge’ funding round to tide it over before IPO
Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI Group PBC might have plans to go public in the near future, but it isn’t done with private funding rounds. Indeed, it’s currently believed to be negotiating with...
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Agentic AI Foundation adds four more open-source AI tools
The Agentic AI Foundation, a consortium that maintains open-source artificial intelligence tools, today took four new projects under its wing. The technologies were donated by OpenAI Group PBC,...
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
Designing an AI serving harness built to last
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI...
4 insights from Smarsh EDGE: Governance becomes the foundation for communications intelligence
Financial institutions have long treated employee communications as something to archive for regulators. During the Smarsh EDGE event, that archive was recast as a source of business intelligence....
The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom
WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
Canva releases its first image generation model
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
The Foundations of Scalable AI
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future...
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from...
Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
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