TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money […]
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money […]
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.
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Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels’ blessing and money.
Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it’s giving the code away for free.
Compared to other blockbuster share sales, the build-up to the AI company’s stock market debut has felt discordant, even creepy
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% from the previous year. For many enterprises, this investment has…
Over the past year, venture backers have poured close to $3 billion into good-sized rounds for marine-related startups in sectors ranging from defense tech to clean energy, per Crunchbase data. Top areas for investment include autonomous sea vessels, water robots, electric watercraft, and ocean data.
Crunchbase News Research Lead Gené Teare moderated panels and spoke with leaders building Europe and the Middle East’s AI ecosystems at HumanX in Amsterdam. Here we share a snippet of her conversation with Axelera AI CEO Fabrizio Del Maffeo and AI71 CPTO Mehdi Ghissassi.
AWS’s Strands Agents team released Strands Decider 2B, an Apache-2.0 decision model built on Qwen3.5-2B-Base. It returns choices, yes/no probabilities and scores with calibrated confidence in one forward pass, never text. It runs at a 115 ms median on an RTX 3090 and scores 0.723 on the JevBench public set, which makes it a fast local option for routing, tool selection and guardrails in AI agents.
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A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.
Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions. Speech is now available in public beta across Suno’s web and mobile platforms, and allows you to simultaneously generate voiceovers and background music to accompany them. “Music will always be at […]
Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security. In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and […]
Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner’s allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. “Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I’ll come back, and they won’t ask me any questions,” says Madison, who asked that her last name be withheld to […]
San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that’s changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive “hyperscale” facilities spanning millions of square feet and housing the physical infrastructure for AI. There are now more […]
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Does AI research have a conflict of interest problem?
Powerful AI tools are burning through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs
The move aims to improve the tech group’s balance sheet health as AI spending soars
Homeward, a startup that helps homeowners buy before selling their existing homes or get cash offers for their properties, has raised a $120 million Series D round, Crunchbase News reports exclusively.
Cohere has released Embed 5, a new embedding model family. It targets enterprise search, RAG, and agentic retrieval. The model family ships in 2 tiers. Embed 5 Pro targets maximum retrieval quality. Embed 5 Fast targets latency and cost on the live query path. Both accept text, images, and fused text plus image inputs. Both […]
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In this comprehensive coding guide, we explore Google Research’s Kauldron—a JAX training library optimized for research velocity and modularity. Learn how konfig turns experiments into plain dictionaries, kontext wires components via string paths, and ktyping enforces runtime shape checks.
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Cloudflare has released Clef (27B) and Clef-flash (9B), open-weight decision models that return typed probabilities instead of text. They are Jev-API compatible, accept images, and run on Workers AI at 209.3 ms and 38.8 ms median latency.
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As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days.
Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of […]
At OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals – primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a “real-deal AI” agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, “inspired by the cool agents that we […]
A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google’s side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC […]