As Anthropic and OpenAI move closer to potential IPO milestones, the competitive pressure around them is changing shape. The challenge is no longer only about who can train the biggest model or publish the most impressive benchmark results. It’s increasingly…
General Intuition’s latest funding round is drawing attention for a simple reason: it’s betting that the fastest way to teach AI agents “real-world intuition” may not be through real-world data at all. Instead, the company is scaling training pipelines built…
AI’s power bill has become one of the most important—and least understood—constraints in the race to build smarter systems. For years, the conversation has centered on model size, benchmark scores, and the speed at which new capabilities appear. But behind…
General Intuition’s latest funding push is drawing attention for a simple reason: it treats video games less like entertainment and more like an industrial-scale training ground for machine intelligence. The company, which has been building toward AI agents that can…
Netris has raised $15 million in Series A funding from a16z, aiming to tackle one of the least glamorous—and most time-consuming—parts of building AI infrastructure: getting the networking layer ready quickly enough that teams can actually start deploying models and…
With just two days left before Early Bird pricing expires, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is quickly moving from “something to consider later” to “something you’ll want to lock in now.” The event—positioned as a high-signal gathering for founders, investors, and…
Adobe has agreed to acquire Topaz Labs, the company behind widely used image and video enhancement tools, and plans to fold those capabilities into Adobe’s creative ecosystem. The announcement signals a clear strategic direction for Adobe: rather than treating “enhancement”…
SoftBank’s latest strategic manoeuvres are once again being framed in the market with a phrase that has become both shorthand and a mild rebuke: “SoftBank doing SoftBank things.” It’s a line that captures the company’s tendency to move quickly, pivot…
Companies are no longer asking whether artificial intelligence can deliver value. Most executives have moved past that question. The real debate has shifted to something far less glamorous: why so many organisations still struggle to turn AI pilots into repeatable,…
Anthropic’s latest hire is being framed as a small staffing move with outsized implications: the company has brought in an economist whose work, according to reporting, touches on “human survival” under conditions where advanced AI systems become more capable. The…
Amazon’s latest move in India is being framed as a straightforward infrastructure expansion, but the real story is about how quickly the economics of AI are reshaping where cloud giants decide to place their next generation of compute. With a…
Ford’s recent push to celebrate a top spot in JD Power’s initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers comes with an unusual level of candor about how it got there—and what nearly derailed parts of its progress. Behind the scenes, the…