Artificial Intelligence
Deep dives into LLMs, neural networks, AI safety, and the companies building the future of machine intelligence.
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Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
A Blue Cross Blue Shield report reveals how AI healthcare costs are rising, adding $942M in spending as hospitals adopt new artificial intelligence tools.
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Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
Flock Safety is reportedly offering employee buyouts to shrink its workforce. Analyze the impact of headcount cuts at the law enforcement tech giant.
The Future of Customer Service: Human-Level Voice AI, Predictive Resolution, and Zero-Wait Support
The days of hold music and robotic IVR menus are over. Sub-300ms conversational voice agents, emotion-adaptive tones, and predictive issue resolution are redefining customer support.
The Future of Marketing: Synthetic Media, Hyper-Personalized Campaigns, and Zero-Click Discovery
Explore the future of digital marketing, from synthetic media to zero-click discovery. Learn how to beat rising CAC and build hyper-personalized campaigns.
The Future of Software Development: AI Pair Programmers, Natural Language Code, and the 10x Engineer
Discover how AI pair programmers and natural language coding are shaping the future of software development for modern engineers. Read the full analysis.
The Future of Shopping: Predictive AI Commerce, AR Try-Ons, and Instant Autonomous Delivery
Discover the future of e-commerce driven by predictive AI, AR try-ons, and autonomous delivery. Learn how retail is evolving past traditional online shopping.
The Open-Source AI War That Will Define the Next Decade
Discover the rise of open source AI models versus proprietary APIs like GPT-4. Learn how running local open-weight models is defining the future of AI.
Why Most Companies Will Fail at AI Adoption — And What the Survivors Will Have in Common
Discover why most companies fail at AI adoption and what successful organizations do differently to achieve sustainable enterprise AI transformation.
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Rival AI agents, Instinct and Metas Muse, both add the ability to make calls
Discover how rival AI agents Instinct and Metas Muse are introducing phone calling features, reshaping the future of autonomous conversational AI voice agents.
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic join Emerald AI to secure 100 GW of grid capacity, addressing the critical power bottleneck facing AI data center expansion.
Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform
Icelandic startup Treble raises $18 million to scale its voice simulation platform for AI model developers, robotics, and next-gen wearable devices.
Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?
Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Y Combinators Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
OpenAIs feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
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Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your wor...
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Silicon Valley's private market playbooks are being rewritten in real time as enterprise platform buyers move with unprecedented speed to capture domain-specific AI technologies before venture capital...
OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
Apple Watchs new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
The hinge for Apples new foldable phone was built with AI
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
Apples revamped Health app will calculate your health age and readiness score
Apple’s push into consumer health technology has reached a pivotal structural junction. According to reporting from TechCrunch AI, Apple is rolling out a fundamentally overhauled Health application po...
Apple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
In a bold assertion that cuts directly through the hype cycles dominating Silicon Valley, Apple Chief Executive Officer John Ternus declared that despite the relentless surge of dedicated AI wearables...
Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI likeitsinevitable, but recentsafety incidentslikeOpenAIsHugging Face breacharedemonstratingthe potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capa...
What will Apples John Ternus era look like?
Itsofficially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped downas CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memopromised a...
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
Open-weight AI companies are the Valleys hottest acquisition targets
If you told a traditional Silicon Valley venture capitalist a decade ago that the hottest acquisition targets in tech would be startups spending tens of millions of dollars on compute clusters just to...
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropics new watermarks will catch them using it at th...
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
GPT-5 Is Coming: What Every Human Needs to Know
OpenAI's next frontier model will redefine intelligence itself. Here's the complete breakdown of capabilities, timelines, and what it means for humanity.