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OpenAI unveils first custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño, with Broadcom — and its development was sped-up with OpenAI’s own models
OpenAI and Broadcom this morning unveiled their first custom AI accelerator chip named "Jalapeño," positioning it is as a purpose-built processor for large language model (LLM) inference, rather than the more general GPUs offered by the likes of Nvidia or AMD....
Zoox upgrades its robotaxi as it prepares for commercial service
Zoox has given its custom-built robotaxi a makeover — and not just to make it look sharper. The Amazon-owned company revealed Wednesday a series of upgrades to the comfort and function of its electric, autonomous vehicle based on rider feedback and ahead of what it...
This new tracking label could help solve cargo theft
Imagine you’re Guy Fieri. (Stay with me.) It’s late 2024 and the president of your company calls to tell you that 24,000 bottles of your tequila have vanished. You’d presumably have a number of questions, but chief among them is likely: How did this happen? The answer...
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom. Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems. OpenAI’s own AI models...
If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick
I’ve had screen time limits on my iPhone for years, allowing me 30 minutes on social media each day. How many times have I dismissed the limit notification and continued watching mindless Reels? I’d be horrified to find out. It turns out that all along, what I needed...
If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick
I’ve had screen time limits on my iPhone for years, allowing me 30 minutes on social media each day. How many times have I dismissed the limit notification and continued watching mindless Reels? I’d be horrified to find out. It turns out that all along, what I needed...
3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass
You have just 3 days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 before Early Bird rates end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders don’t scale alone. The fastest-growing startups learn from peers facing similar challenges, gain insights from...
3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass
You have just 3 days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 before Early Bird rates end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders don’t scale alone. The fastest-growing startups learn from peers facing similar challenges, gain insights from...
Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg
New details have emerged about Valor Equity Partners’ Fund VII, which last year filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to begin raising capital. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the fund is targeting at least $2.5 billion in capital, a...
Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter
Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter, and deliver an operating profit for the first time, the Wall Street Journal reports. That’s a big milestone and fast quarter-over-quarter growth that...
The SpaceX IPO filing is filled with AI bets, Starship dreams, and Elon Musk at the center
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk 24 years ago, has finally made its IPO filing public. And once the company goes public, Musk will be at its center as CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board. The hefty filing, posted after markets closed Wednesday, shows...
Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral
It feels like short video clips from podcasts, songs, and movies are suddenly everywhere on social media right now, and that’s not an accident. Brands have realized that the format offers a highly cost-effective way to market products. Brands and marketing agencies...
Google’s Managed Agents API promises one-call deployment at the cost of execution layer control
At Google I/O, the company unveiled Managed Agents in its Gemini API — a service that promises to collapse weeks of agent deployment work into a single API call. It's also a sign that Google believes its ecosystem, including the newly launched Antigravity CLI, is...
xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over
Elon Musk’s xAI lost $6.4 billion from operations on just $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, according to SpaceX’s IPO filings. And the losses are poised to grow. SpaceX’s filing reveals plans to scale Grok to “multiple trillions of parameters,” a dramatic boost that...
Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators. Now, it’s buying $2.8B more.
Elon Musk’s xAI has gotten itself in hot water over its use of polluting generators at its data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Now, it wants to buy even more of them. In SpaceX’s IPO filing, released Wednesday, the company said its xAI division will buy another $2.8...
Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute
Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Turns out, compute at that scale isn’t cheap. Anthropic will be paying xAI $1.25...
Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup
During a Y Combinator event on Tuesday night, Sam Altman had what YC partner Tyler Bosmeny called a “mic drop moment.” Altman offered $2 million worth of OpenAI tokens to every startup in the current class in exchange for equity in the startup. In other words, he...
You don’t need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it.
Loading the player… Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us...
Cohere cracks lossless quantization and native citations with first full Apache 2.0 licensed open model Command A+
Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha, but now it has even more in store for enterprise builders around the globe: today, the firm co-founded by former Googler and "Attention Is All You Need" co-author...
The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk 24 years ago, has finally made its IPO filing public. The hefty filing, posted after markets closed Wednesday, shows a company that has developed far beyond its initial pursuit of reusable rockets — although its...
Microsoft’s carbon-removal plans aren’t dead after all
Microsoft is purchasing 650,000 metric tons of carbon-removal credits from startup BioCirc, the company said today. As carbon-removal deals go, it’s not a big buy. But this one is notable because last month, two reports said the tech giant was pausing its...
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