A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon | TechCrunch
It’s no secret that AI is a hog, consuming energy and water like no digital technology before it. Now we…
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Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung | TechCrunch
Back in April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was toying with the idea of producing its own AI chips as a…
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment | TechCrunch
On Thursday, Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company, focused on delivering successful enterprise AI deployments with…
Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now | TechCrunch
Ben Guez has “a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs,” thanks to an automated script he set up…
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office | TechCrunch
Indian serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is making a $30 million personal bet that there is still room for another enterprise…
Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation | TechCrunch
Together AI — an AI neocloud that rents out Nvidia GPU clusters and other AI-specific infrastructure — has raised an…
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off | TechCrunch
Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers to…
Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Wayve, a UK-based self-driving tech startup, is allowing its employees to sell a portion of their vested equity. The $85…
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds | TechCrunch
Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same technology to…
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip | TechCrunch
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year.…
The AI jobs debate just got messier | TechCrunch
AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced…
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility | TechCrunch
Base44, the vibe coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was…
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’ | TechCrunch
The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory…
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business | TechCrunch
Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena, which originated as a research project at UC…
Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices | TechCrunch
Unlike AI gadgets like Rabbit or Humane, companies building dedicated gadgets for recording and transcribing meetings have actually seen some…
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on | TechCrunch
On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos.…
Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product | TechCrunch
Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open…
Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world | TechCrunch
For decades, IT services firms made billions of dollars by allowing companies to outsource tech tasks like customizing, integrating, and…