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Ramp, a corporate spend management startup, is in talks to raise $750 million at a pre-money valuation of over $40 billion, just six months after reaching a $32 billion valuation.
OpenAI introduces new voice intelligence features in its API to help developers create apps that can converse, transcribe, and translate with users.
Kodiak AI's stock plummets 37% after raising $100M at a steep discount, signaling investors' willingness to back the company but not at its current market price.
Disney executives are exploring a potential 'super app' that could merge Disney+ with other Disney apps, such as Disneyland Resort and Disney Cruise Line Navigator.
Elon Musk's attempt to shut down OpenAI's for-profit AI business hinges on expert witness Stuart Russell's testimony that AGI development poses significant risks.
Bret Taylor's AI startup Sierra raises a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion.
Newly revealed texts show Elon Musk threatened OpenAI's leadership, suggesting they settle a lawsuit or face public backlash.
Anthropic and OpenAI are launching separate joint ventures to deploy enterprise AI services, backed by major investors and private equity firms.
A new project called Acorn has launched a way for organizations and creators to build their own online communities as an alternative to centralized social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Threads.
Amazon is opening its global logistics network to all businesses, the company announced on Monday.
For a limited time, TechCrunch is offering 50% off a second pass to Disrupt 2026 when you bring a partner or colleague.
DoorDash introduces AI-powered tools to accelerate merchant onboarding, enhance food photos, and generate websites based on app listings.
A new startup, Barocal, has developed a revolutionary cooling technology that uses an inexpensive solid material to heat and cool, potentially disrupting the century-old refrigeration industry.
Lidar company Ouster unveils new lineup of sensors with native color lidar, capable of capturing color imagery and 3D depth information simultaneously.
Amazon starts offering OpenAI's latest models on AWS after Microsoft's exclusive rights to OpenAI products expire.
Scout AI, a defense tech startup founded by Coby Adcock and Collin Otis, has raised $100 million to develop its AI models for military use, including autonomous vehicles and drones.
Elon Musk's testimony in his lawsuit against OpenAI reveals a long-standing feud with Google's Larry Page over AI safety.
Shapes , an app where humans and AI characters chat together in shared group conversations, is emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding.
Kompas VC is investing in startups that tackle industrial competitiveness challenges with a regionally sensitive approach, backed by a new €160 million fund.
Amazon introduces 'Join the chat', an AI-powered feature providing conversational audio responses to product questions.
Microsoft and OpenAI have renegotiated their deal, ending a potential legal dispute over OpenAI's $50 billion agreement with Amazon.
China's National Development and Reform Commission has blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup founded by Chinese engineers.
Meta signs agreement with Overview Energy to beam solar power from space to power data centers at night
A Bay Area homeowner is offering a 13-acre property in Mill Valley in exchange for equity in AI startup Anthropic.
Anthropic's experimental marketplace, Project Deal, enables AI agents to buy and sell goods for real money, yielding surprising results on agent performance.
Nothing launches Essential Voice, an AI-powered dictation tool that converts speech into formatted text, in a growing market.
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga is the latest addition to the StrictlyVC San Francisco lineup, which will take place on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center.
Noscroll, a new startup, offers an AI-powered bot that browses social feeds and news sites, then texts users when something important happens, allowing them to outsource their doomscrolling.
Sierra, a customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, has acquired Fragment, a French AI startup that helps businesses integrate AI into workflows.
The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, set to launch in September 2026, will significantly add to the global demand for GPUs, intensifying the existing shortage.
Google unveils new generative AI features for its mapping and geospatial apps, designed to enhance visual and data analytics for enterprise users.
Google Cloud Next 2026 showcases a plethora of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud, with the tech giant announcing a $750 million fund to support AI agent sales to enterprises.
Apple is taking a tough stance on vibe coding apps as the company is blocking updates or removing those apps from the App Store.
OpenAI has acquired personal finance startup Hiro Finance, marking its second financial app acquisition, as it looks to bolster its talent in business finance and potentially expand into financial planning.
For all the hype about data centers in space, there just aren’t very many GPUs up there.
OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining how wealth and work could be reshaped in an 'intelligence age,' including public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week.
Microsoft AI, the tech giant’s research lab, announced the release of three foundational AI models on Thursday that can generate text, voice, and images.
Anthropic accidentally took down thousands of GitHub repositories while trying to remove leaked source code for its Claude Code application, sparking controversy and highlighting the company's challenges with execution and compliance.
Industry leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more gather at StrictlyVC San Francisco on April 30 to discuss AI innovation, funding, and software development's future.
Anthropic, known for its careful approach to AI, has suffered two major data leaks in a week, exposing internal files and source code for its Claude Code software.
Mercor, an AI recruiting startup, confirms it was impacted by a cyberattack through a supply chain compromise of LiteLLM, a widely-used open-source project, affecting thousands of companies worldwide.
Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel investors is not enough.
OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year.
OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year.
Large language models trained on vast datasets could speed genomics research, streamline clinical documentation, improve real-time diagnostics, support clinical decision-making, accelerate drug discovery, and even gener…
The benchmark evaluates planning, long-horizon tool use, and visual reasoning across real-world tasks.
The release targets on-device summarization and classification with practical latency constraints.