As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience

Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant | AI News

Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result. ...

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT | AI News

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business....

Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch | AI News

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recor...

Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr | AI News

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting...

Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity | AI News

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't. ...

An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI | AI News

OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent...

How we detect frontier model misalignment | AI News

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents esca...

How Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence | AI News

Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI. Lawyers review grouped documents, summaries, and reports before advising client...

U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO | AI News

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, source...

Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction | AI News

rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI....

Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions | AI News

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions....

Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round | AI News

On Thursday, AI app, Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation....

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure | AI News

Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source. ...

Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists, subscriptions, and update delivery instructions | AI News

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with t...

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time | AI News

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Huggin...

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows | AI News

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion....

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI | AI News

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending Sept...

Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record- breaking revenue in a row | AI News

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly r...

Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion | AI News

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the big...

Creating AI value with enterprise context | AI News

Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversa...

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows | AI News

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex....

Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying | AI News

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO....

Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’ | AI News

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly...

The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO  | AI News

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly...

As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps | AI News

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps...

The future of the firm | AI News

How AI might enter the org chart—beneath, beside, and between us....

Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms | AI News

The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission....

Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work | AI News

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-val...

AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public | AI News

Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families....

South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks | AI News

South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia....

Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model | AI News

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a ...

7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors open | AI News

In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running...

Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control | AI News

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Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work | AI News

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-val...

VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more | AI News

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic....

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication | AI News

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she di...

The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid | AI News

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sort of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders...

How Localiza reorganized work around generative AI | AI News

See how Localiza uses ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and 60+ specialized agents to reorganize work and build AI-native mobility experience...

How Grupo Boticário uses AI to strengthen human connections | AI News

Almost 50 years after starting in a compounding pharmacy in Paraná, the group operates a proprietary agent platform that autonomously resolves up to ...

Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant | AI News

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access....

Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO? | AI News

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure. ...

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies | AI News

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs....

How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with Daybreak | AI News

With OpenAI Daybreak, Check Point speeds up the research behind new security protections, enabling its analysts to turn vulnerability intelligence int...

Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean? | AI News

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery...

Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering | AI News

Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview...

OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT | AI News

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings....

Anima helps clinics cut call waits by 75% with GPT-6 and GPT-Live | AI News

Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients....

Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace | AI News

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup,...

Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data | AI News

Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach....

Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser | AI News

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models....

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model