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We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAIs and Anthropics guardrails affect their work.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups.

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte the company's core business is strong, but that the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.

Corgi had announced a B1 round of $106 million at a $2.6 billion valuation at the end of May.

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldnt catch.

An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla's own figures.

David Bowie's song Five Years, which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

The tech giant says selfie videos give users more options to sign in if they're ever locked out or don't have access to their usual phone or computer.

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Will.i.am.

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

Amazon is hoping the addition of games can turn Prime Video into a one-stop entertainment destination, borrowing a strategy from Netflix, which has increasingly embraced party games over the past several years.

MeBeMe delivers small tasks to help users become their best selves instead of endlessly scrolling.

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Ford is the first automaker to use a new set of developer tools that will let it embed Apple Maps navigation and mapping directly into its vehicles' infotainment systems.

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.

Tesla's 26% boost in revenue wasn't enough to offset rising operating expenses and capital expenditures as it pushes to launch a new generation of products.

A closely watched social media addiction lawsuit that had been set to go to trial next week has been dropped after the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his claims against Meta, leaving none of the major tech companies facing trial in the case.

SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut down. The deal brings Ninas artists, editorial archive, and music discovery tools to SoundCloud as the company continues expanding its platform for independent musicians.

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a highly isolated testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue, Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing, and AI features designed to strengthen real-world relationships.

Anthropicleaped toa$47 billionrevenue run rateby May,compared to$9 billionin 2025.Itsthe kind of growth thatMenlo VenturesMatt Murphysayshesnever seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropics $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, []

The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to support a leaner, more focused operating model as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.

The new feature lets users wirelessly transfer more data types from an iPhone without needing to download a separate app.

As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among US companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.

Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.

OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.

The long-held understanding among security researchers and network defenders is that it's impossible to negotiate in good faith with an extortion racket because there's no incentive for the other side to actually walk away.

a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade's $3.5 million seed round.

Weve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

WhatsApp on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will let users hear and reply to messages, make calls, view their call history, and access favorite contacts hands-free and right from their car's screen.

Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.

Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.

The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.