AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

TechCrunch1w1 week agoCovered by51 min read

TechCrunchMarina Temkin

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Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026, Y Combinator’s Garry Tan says 'do nothing' about distillation as AI giants accuse China of copying their tech

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

TechCrunch1w1 week agoHN Covered by52 min read

TechCrunchJulie Bort

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OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

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One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events

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Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue

TechCrunch1w1 week agoCovered by31 min read

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Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026, OpenAI’s Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion Ahead of IPO, and more ›

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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

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Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

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Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year

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Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

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OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

TechCrunch1w1 week agoHN2 Covered by171 min read

TechCrunchSarah Perez

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Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

TechCrunch1w1 week agoHN Covered by92 min read

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Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026, OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

FTC Proposes Blanket Prohibition Preventing Facebook from Monetizing Youth Data

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

TechCrunch1w1 week agoHN Covered by53 min read

TechCrunchSarah Perez

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Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

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An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

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India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

TechCrunch1w1 week agoCovered by33 min read

TechCrunchJagmeet Singh

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AI agents are flooding public services with new requests

TechCrunch1w1 week agoCovered by33 min read

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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

TechCrunch1w1 week agoHN Covered by74 min read

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Salesforce has held talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI customer research platform, for around $2 billion

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

TechCrunch1w1 week agoCovered by52 min read

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OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

TechCrunch2w2 weeks agoCovered by32 min read

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