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The AI jobs debate just got messier
AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced that close to 90,000 job cuts were tied to AI, and, by some accounts, up to 15% of U.S. jobs are projected to be eliminated by AI over the...
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility
Base44, the vibe coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was barely six moths old and had a team of eight — has started rolling out its own AI model to support its users in creating apps with natural language. The move...
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million round led by Salesforce Ventures with...
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%
Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darling DeepSeek is back with yet another open release that could once again...
Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience. Starting today, all eligible users in the U.S. can access the feature for free, a service that was previously only...
Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival
Another challenger to the Amazon Kindle-Goodreads book-tracking empire has emerged. On Monday, the reading tracker StoryGraph teamed up with Rakuten’s Kobo, the maker of a more open e-reader (and Kindle alternative), allowing book lovers to automatically track their...
Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix
Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber’s ride-hail app in Phoenix, Arizona, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city, both companies confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership...
Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price. This agreement comes at a time when businesses are struggling to manage the hefty costs of enterprise subscriptions to AI tools....
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’
The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, a region that has historically attracted little semiconductor investment. The announcement is part of the country’s...
Waymo dominates autonomous vehicle registrations as Tesla trails behind
Waymo has nearly 600 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas, a figure that far outpaces emerging competitors Avride, Nuro, Tesla, and Zoox, according to data available in a new website launched by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. The automated vehicle tracker...
How to apply to Startup Battlefield 2026, what you need ahead of the June 8 deadline
Every year I read through thousands of Startup Battlefield applications. And every year, I see the same pattern: The founders who belong on this stage are often the ones who almost didn’t apply. They think they’re too early. They think they need more traction. They...
Researchers automated LLM reasoning strategy design and cut token usage by 69.5%
Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a proven method to improve the performance of large language models in real-world applications by giving them extra compute cycles at inference time. However, TTS strategies have historically been handcrafted, relying heavily on...
The internet is being rebuilt for machines
Cloud infrastructure has long been designed around humans who search, click, scroll, and stream in a steady and predictable fashion. AI agents behave differently. They can unleash a swell of activity, spinning up multiple sub-agents that query hundreds of databases,...
Mistral AI launches Vibe, expands into industrial AI and announces data center push to challenge OpenAI
Mistral AI used its inaugural conference on Wednesday to announce a sweeping expansion into industrial manufacturing, a new inference data center south of Paris, and a rebranding of its consumer-facing assistant — moves that collectively signal the three-year-old...
Slate Auto will announce pricing and take preorders for its EV on June 24
Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos and LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter, will announce pricing and start taking non-refundable preorders for its low-cost electric vehicle on June 24, ahead of the first deliveries late this year. The company sent...
Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI
Asana has acquired the workflow automation company StackAI for $75 million, part of a larger effort to position itself as an AI-native workplace platform. StackAI’s founders, Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno, will join Asana as part of the acquisition. Asana framed...
Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles
Elon Musk’s X lets you write long-form content on the platform through its Articles feature, but only if you’re a paid subscriber or business. The decentralized social networking startup Bluesky has a different idea. On Thursday, Bluesky rolled out a new version of...
Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks
Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers...
Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic has snagged $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation in its latest funding round, marking what could be the AI startup’s last private fundraising before debuting on the public markets. The Series H round was co-led by Altimeter Capital,...
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment
Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale...
Control within connection: How data sovereignty is rewriting the rules of critical infrastructure
Presented by EquinixDigital systems are central to economic resilience. But the governance models supporting them were designed for a bygone era, when systems were smaller, often centralized, and rarely crossing multiple jurisdictions. This structural mismatch is...
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Small and Medium Businesses face a tough competition with bigger brands while trying to establish themselves. In the digital arena, the move can seem even tougher, but it need not be so. You can take the help of a SEO company in Gurgaon or Delhi, to stay on top of...
Cool Phablets and Other Top Tech You Can Buy in 2018
If you are a devoted technophile, 2018 will definitely provide you with plenty of reasons to spend your money. From phablets and laptops to other innovative tech gadgets, this promises to be a banner year. Whether you have some holiday gift money burning a hole in...
CRM Solutions: Should realtors invest in them?
The real estate CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions are utilized by builders and contractors to carry out multifarious tasks efficiently. There are several good reasons why this particular system is gaining unprecedented popularity among realtors. Dealing...
The Most Technologically Advanced Cars
The 21st century car isn't just your average vehicle; it's a technologically advanced vehicle that features everything from hybrid technology to Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth, navigation, and more. In 2015 alone, there are a host of makes and models vying to be at the...