Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again: They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more. Read More
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Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI: Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses. Read More
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Telegram's shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that shortlinks to the messaging app had "stopped working." Read More
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General Compute raised $15m to build the worlds first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier. 
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Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B: With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies. Read More
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Uber's product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn't want to be 'everything for everyone': Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice. Read More
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Apple says former employee exploited 'rare' bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI: Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI. Read More
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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models? Read More
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Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius: Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius's compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology. Read More
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Superhuman's new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies: Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing. Read More
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