In a move that signals how quickly “frontier” AI oversight is evolving from broad principles into concrete testing pipelines, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to let the US government review new AI models before they’re released…
Meta is moving deeper into the use of computer vision for safety and compliance, rolling out a new visual analysis system designed to help determine whether a user may be underage. The approach is notable not only because it relies…
ElevenLabs is signaling that voice AI has moved from “impressive demo” to “boardroom priority,” and the company’s latest update reads like a milestone checklist for the enterprise era. In addition to announcing new investors—BlackRock, Jamie Foxx, and Longoria—the startup says…
CopilotKit’s $27 million Series A is arriving at a moment when “AI agents” are finally being judged less by how impressive they look in demos and more by how reliably they behave inside real products. The Seattle-based startup is positioning…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is getting a little easier to justify for anyone who’s been weighing the cost of bringing a teammate, a partner, or a second voice into the room. For the next four days only, TechCrunch is offering a…
Car design has always been a balancing act between imagination and engineering reality. But in the last few years, that balance has started to tilt—less because automakers suddenly want radically different cars, and more because the process of getting from…
Krutrim, a company that has been widely discussed as India’s first GenAI unicorn, is reportedly shifting its center of gravity toward cloud services after a period marked by layoffs and slower-than-expected updates to its AI model lineup. While the move…
Anthropic has spent years positioning Claude as the “safe” alternative in a crowded AI market—an assistant designed to be helpful, but also constrained. Yet new security research shared with The Verge suggests that Claude’s carefully engineered helpfulness may create a…
About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, the courtroom has started to feel less like a dispute between two companies and more like a live map of the modern AI industry—complete with the people who built it, funded…
In a sign that the US government’s scrutiny of frontier AI is becoming less of an exception and more of a routine step, Google, xAI and Microsoft have agreed to national security reviews for newly released AI models. The decision…
Staffers at Google DeepMind have taken a decisive step toward collective bargaining, voting to unionize in a bid to influence how the lab’s AI research is used—particularly in relation to military work involving Israel and the United States. The move,…
In the past, when workers talked about being fed up, the next chapter was usually straightforward: update the résumé, start applying, and quit once something better appeared. Today, that sequence is getting scrambled. Across parts of the labour market, dissatisfaction…