Weâre excited to welcome Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, to the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27â29 in San Francisco. In a featured fireside chat, Staniszewski will dive into how AI-powered voice technology is transforming digital communication and interaction. Takeaways that blend technical depth with business impact ElevenLabs is […]
Moonvalley's Marey AI video generation model is open to the public. The monthly subscription is available for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99.
AI can help your team move faster â but only if your team knows how to move together. Join Jeff Chow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Miro, for a roundtable sessions at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where heâll break down how product-led innovation can supercharge collaborative problem-solving. […]
OpenAI has reportedly overhauled its security operations to protect against corporate espionage. According to the Financial Times, the company accelerated an existing security clampdown after Chinese startup DeepSeek released a competing model in January, with OpenAI alleging that DeepSeek improperly copied its models using “distillation” techniques. The beefed-up security includes “information tenting” policies that limit […]
Ruoming Pang previously ran Apple's in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features.
Cursor's CEO issued an apology this weekend over an unclear change to its pricing model that resulted in some users being charged more.
Some ChatGPT subscribers are reporting a new feature appearing in their drop-down list of available tools called “Study Together.” The mode is apparently the chatbot’s way of becoming a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to prompts, some say it asks more questions and requires the human to answer, like OpenAI’s answer to Google’s […]
Some tennis players are not happy with Wimbledonâs new AI line judges, as reported by The Telegraph. This is the first year the prestigious tennis tournament, which is still ongoing, replaced human line judges, who determine if a ball is in or out, with an electronic line calling system (ELC). Numerous players criticized the AI […]
As a result of the deal, CoreWeave says it will gain access to more than a gigawatt of data center capacity â enough energy to power more than 850,000 homes.
While AI may be the catalyst behind the recent wave of data company M&A, the market was ripe for consolidation.
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, âWe have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.â
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers â adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback.
Brex quickly realized its normal software procurement process wouldn't work in the age of AI and found a new way to test and vet tools.
A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Googleâs AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of âmisusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the […]
The European Union said it will stick to its timeline for rolling out its AI legislation, ignoring calls by tech companies to delay the bloc's AI rules.
Cluely's rapid ascend may be challenged by free copycat products.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he stepping into the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he launched in 2024.
Kulveer Taggar, a two-time YC alum and founder of Zeus Living, founded Phosphor Capital last year
Meta is experimenting with having customizable chatbots messaging users unprompted and follow up on past conversations.
Elon Musk's AI company has been operating more than twice that number without permits for months, a legal group alleges.
AI agents are reshaping how work gets done across industries, and at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, one of the leading voices in that transformation is stepping onto the AI Stage. May Habib, CEO and co-founder of Writer, will join us in San Francisco, October 27-29, for a fireside chat that dives deep into how enterprises are […]
Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries.
In late May, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared to kick open the door on a sensitive topic, warning that half of entry-level jobs could vanish within five years because of AI and push U.S. unemployment up to 20%. But Amodei is far from alone in sharing aloud that he foresees a workforce bloodbath. A new […]
OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood's sale of "OpenAI tokens" will not give everyday consumers equity â or stock â in OpenAI.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is back at Moscone West in San Francisco this October 27â29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders to dig into whatâs next in tech. And when it comes to artificial intelligence, the conversations arenât just technical â theyâre creative, cinematic, and boundary-pushing. Thatâs why Nikola Todorovic is headed to the AI […]
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, hinted Tuesday evening that Veo 3, Googleâs latest video generating model, could potentially be used for video games.Â
The plan, Perplexity Max, offers unlimited access to various services and priority access to its services using the latest LLM models.
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.
The current version of the Trump administration's "big, beautiful bill" would raise the tax credit for U.S. chipmakers to 35%.
The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes, a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service now called X.
As Amazon's fleet of robots has reaches a milestone, the company is also releasing a new AI model to make them more efficient.
In its announcement, Grammarly said it wants to build AI agents for emails using Superhuman's tech.
WhatsApp is adding more AI features to its business suite. The company on Tuesday announced it’s introducing the ability for large businesses to reach customers through voice calls, which will allow the app to explore the use of AI-powered voice agents. The company is also looking into using AI to recommend products to users. WhatsApp […]
After going back and forth over the provision, Sen. Marsha Blackburn offered an amendment to strip the provision alongside Sen. Maria Cantwell.Â
Genesis AI, which aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with $105M in seed funding.
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has raised $5 billion in debt and $5 billion in equity, Morgan Stanley said on Monday.
Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies â ideally giving publishers greater control over their content. For the last year, Cloudflare has launched tools for publishers to address the rampant rise of AI […]
Clio, last valued at $3B, makes a bet on AI-powered legal data provider
Levelpath raises a $55 million Series B led by Battery Ventures
While Siri can already call on ChatGPT for difficult questions, Apple now seems to be exploring a much deeper integration with technology from third-party AI providers.
A small company called Songscription launched last week with AI models that automate music transcription, turning an audio file of a song into sheet music within minutes. Operating on a freemium model, the product is geared toward both professional and hobbyist musicians. “We hope to make playing music more enjoyable,” Andrew Carlins, CEO of Songscription […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is restructuring the companyâs AI efforts to center around building AI âsuperintelligence.â Going forward, all teams working on AI at Meta will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to Bloomberg, which viewed an internal memo sent Monday. Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of data labeling startup Scale […]
Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.
The company behind Cursor, the viral AI coding editor, launched a web app on Monday that allows users to manage a network of coding agents directly from their browser. The launch marks Cursor’s next big step beyond its integrated development environment (IDE), the core product developers use to access its tools. While Anysphere, the company […]
AI marks the most significant revolution in startup development since the advent of cloud computing. This isnât just an incremental change; AI is fundamentally reshaping every facet of company building, from the initial spark of idea validation and the intricate process of product development to the critical areas of team structuring and go-to-market strategies. Jennifer […]
Navin Chaddha, managing director of the 55-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield, is betting big on AI’s ability to transform people-heavy industries like consulting, law, and accounting. The veteran investor, whose wins include Lyft, Poshmark, and HashiCorp, recently discussed at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Menlo Park why he believes “AI teammates” can create software-like margins […]
With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not âbeen standing idly by.â
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.
Looks like Meta isnât done poaching talent from OpenAI.
Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
As warnings mount about AIâs potential to displace millions of jobs, Anthropic on Friday launched a its Economic Futures Program, new initiative to support research and policy development that addresses AIâs economic impacts.
Meta is offering multi-million pay packages to AI researchers. But no one is really getting an $100 million "signing bonus."
A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Here's what's at stake.
Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been uploaded to Facebook yet. The feature is being suggested to Facebook users when they’re creating a new Story on the social networking app. Here, a screen pops up and asks […]
PetLibro launched an AI-powered smart camera that provides users with real-time insights into their pets' activities.
The Danish government is working to change copyright law to give its citizens a right to their own body, facial features, and voice. The landmark law is designed to strengthen protections against the creation and dissemination of deepfakes, reports The Guardian.
Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores, saying the company transfers users' data to China illegally.
Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce firms, said its team is leaving the company to join OpenAI.
Meta is in talks to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.
Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup studio Prehype. Now, with his new, New York-based venture Audos, he’s betting that AI can help him scale that process from “tens” of startups a year to “hundreds of thousands” of aspiring business owners. The timing certainly […]
Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you.
Andreessen Horowitz explains why its new investment philosophy prioritizes 'build as you go' approach embodied by Cluely
CoreWeave remains a symbol of the AI industry in 2025: Massive revenue, investor enthusiasm built on an insatiable need for more.
The AI feature, first introduced at Google's I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries.
Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. Bansal […]
AI music company Suno acquired WavTool, a browser-based AI DAW. This aims to improve editing capabilities for musicians.
A report by Anthropic reveals that people rarely seek companionship from AI, and turn to AI for emotional support or advice only 2.9% of the time.
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday.
In the fight for top AI talent, Meta just reportedly snagged a win, poaching three OpenAI researchers despite rival Sam Altman’s public mockery of Mark Zuckerberg’s lavish hiring tactics. The latest victory in Zuckerberg’s widely-reported recruiting blitz: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai â who established OpenAI’s Zurich office â have joined Meta’s superintelligence […]
A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment â meaning the judge was able to decide on the case […]
From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating […]
The idea is meant to create a balance between the open nature of the internet and the demand for ever more data to fuel AI.
Predibase helps companies train and fine-tune open source AI models which will help Rubrik customers deploy AI agents faster.
Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at Londonâs High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models.Â
"Let's use technology to benefit workers," Sanders said.
AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of what early traction looks like â and too often, investors are still playing by the old ones. At TechCrunch All Stage, happening in Boston on July 15, Kleida Martiro, partner at Glasswing Ventures, will lead a breakout that cuts straight to the core of this disconnect. Her session, […]
Google is launching a new agentic AI tool that will put its Gemini AI models closer to where developers are already coding. The company announced on Wednesday the launch of Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool designed to run locally from your terminal. The new tool connects Google’s Gemini AI models to local codebases, and […]
Ring gets a new AI-powered feature that offers users specific text descriptions of current motion activity.
Synthflow AI was founded in 2023 and has amassed more than 1,000 customers and handled more than 45 million calls.
Measuring AI progress has usually meant testing scientific knowledge or logical reasoning â but while the major benchmarks still focus on left-brain logic skills, thereâs been a quiet push within AI companies to make models more emotionally intelligent. As foundation models compete on soft measures like user preference and âfeeling the AGI,â having a good […]
Abridge nabbed $300 million Series E led by a16z, months after it closed its previous $250M fundraise.
Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia have raised millions of dollars in the last few months. Applications such as AI-powered notetaker Granola, and meeting tools Read AI and Fireflies AI have also received investor attention and backing. Continuing the trend, dictation app Wispr Flow […]
The ruling isn't a guarantee for how similar cases will proceed, but it lays the foundations for a precedent that would side with tech companies over creatives.
Google DeepMind has released a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device that can run tasks locally on robots without an internet connection.
Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project.
Google introduced its AI mode, a Q&A-style search tool, to users in India today. The company said that this tool is still in the experimental stage and users will need to opt in to it through Search Labs. Once a user has opted in, they can ask queries in English. Google didn’t specify whether it […]
Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details about the companies’ efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The filings are part of a trademark dispute lawsuit filed this month by iyO, a Google-backed hardware startup developing custom-molded earpieces that connect to other devices. Over […]
Andy Konwinski is pledging $100 million of his own money for a new kind of institute to fund researchers. It's already backed Ion Stoica's new lab.
Leaked code suggests xAI is developing an advanced file editor for Grok with spreadsheet support, signaling the companyâs push to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft by embedding AI copilots into productivity tools.Â
The round, which comes just four months after $300 million Series D, was co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue.
Alexa+ is available for free during Early Access and will later be free for Prime customers. Non-Prime users will be able to use the service for $19.99 per month after it publicly launches.
AllSpice's platform has landed customers including Blue Origin and Bose and just raised a $15 million Series A round.
OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAIâs $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altmanâs device startup io) from its website and YouTube page.
A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.
While LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, thereâs one area thatâs seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts.
Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century â from âBatman: Year 100,â in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to âBattling Boy,â with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But itâs been more than a decade since Popeâs last major comics […]
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAIâs former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.
The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.
Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, Anthropic published new safety research testing 16 […]