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Young voters have many of the same concerns as the larger voting cohort, even if many are not registered to vote The 2026 US midterms are approaching against a backdrop of growing political uncertainty, with young voters…

Pity Sam Altman: He's going to have a lot more explaining to do when OpenAI follows this work of abstract legal art

Institute for Driverless Transport wants answers on jobs impact and what happens if the supplier bails

Vibe-coded clones of Adobe software are shaking things up.

OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

OpenAI raised only about $11 billion in its latest funding round, less than half of the $30 billion it was targeting. At $1.25 trillion, the valuation falls short of expectations, and major investors appear to be pulling…

Dulo Inc., a startup co-founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Thrun, has raised $130 million in funding. The Information broke the news of the investment on Thursday. Dulo co-founder Adrian Ao…

As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.

Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its busin…

Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.

Blame plunging token prices

Anthropic, the creator of Claude, filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October. The company's filing statement contains a 92-page risk factor document in which it acknowledges the dangers that AI poses to soci…

Anthropic’s IPO filing offers a glimpse into soaring enterprise AI demand, but price competition and the cost of delivering AI are complicating the path to profitability.

The other artificial intelligence shoe dropped this week, as Anthropic filed for what surely will be the second blockbuster AI initial public offering of stock this year. Nearly 70,000 words in the filing list a ton of r…

Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption. Artificial intelligence is now givi…

Small businesses have long treated cash flow management as an afterthought, tallying expenses after the money is gone. Now, financial platforms are folding payments, payroll, credit and lending into one system that can s…

The SEC filing reveals the scale of the vendor’s commercial growth while raising a broader question of how enterprise buyers can tell if AI spending is paying off.

Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.

With the frontier AI lab about to go public, businesses mull the long-term stability of the Claude creator. OpenAI goes on a price-cut binge to compete with cheap China models.

Wabi Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant for consumers, today announced that it has raised $55 million in funding. IVP led the seed round with contributions from Amazon Alexa Fund, Andreessen Horo…

E-commerce company posts high cloud computing sales but gives a cautious sales forecast for the fourth quarter Amazon offered a mixed picture of its financial health on Thursday in its quarterly earnings report. The e-co…

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the Un…

A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.

On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.

Today on Decoder, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the numbers of the Anthropic IPO filing — a document known as an S-1. Anthrop…

The Anthropic S-1 seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you are the kind of person who wonders if Anthropic is doing its level best to build…

With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.

Crux Labs, an artificial intelligence platform turning enterprise judgment into continuous agent improvement, launched today with over $6 million in funding. Benchstrength and Misneach led the round, with participation f…

Video intelligence company Solink Corp. revealed today that it has raised more than $100 million in new funding. Solink started out in Ottawa in 2009 selling cloud video surveillance, and its software now uses artificial…

The week, the Windows developer said it would offer buyouts to 60,000 workers as it looks to curb costs.

Net profit slid 25% from a year earlier to $26.2bn, well short of expectations, though revenue rose to $127.6bn Shares in the Google parent Alphabet fell double digits Wednesday evening into Thursday trading, erasing hun…

Software giant reports $36.6bn in profit, beating Wall Street expectations, as Azure cloud computing division grows 48% Microsoft gained billions of dollars in stock market value on Wednesday afternoon after it reported…

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of th…

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago q…

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running out, and the opportunity to learn and connect directly with experienced…

British circuit board design startup Circuit Mind Ltd. today announced it has raised $25 million in new funding to extend its artificial intelligence platform across more of the hardware design process. A verification to…

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit o…

Enterprises racing toward AI automation are finding that where their models and data run matters as much as what the models can do. Regulatory pressure, rising token costs and fear of lock-in are pushing companies to dem…

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

Lots of visuals to use and learn with.

Edge Sound Research Inc. today announced it has raised $2 million in new funding to build audio infrastructure that isolates useful sounds and combines them with other sensor data to help physical AI systems understand w…

General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

The S-1, the numbers, and the reactions.