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Siri is good now??
AI | The Verge
You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happened: Apple put out a n
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Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire
AI | The Verge
Elon Musk's net worth has passed the trillion-dollar mark after SpaceX's IPO. His net worth, which was hovering around $800 billion before the IPO, includes the value of his 4.8 billion shares in SpaceX, along with his wealth from his other companies, like Tesla. Shares of SPCX o
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SpaceX’s massive IPO: all the latest news
AI | The Verge
SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He has more wealth, on paper at least, than the economies of nations like Ireland, Sw
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Jeff Bezos’ AI startup aims to build an ‘artificial general engineer’
AI | The Verge
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup will work toward developing an "artificial general engineer," according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup, called Prometheus, aims to develop AI-powered engineering tools to aid in the design of physical pro
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Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend
AI | The Verge
Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human spotted by MacRumors, Craig Federighi said Apple's new Siri won't act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others. "As yo
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Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.
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Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," the company wrote in a blog post.
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SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration
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Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.
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Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.
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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public marke
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It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public marke
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Coinbase for Agents: Automating portfolio trading with AI
AI News
Coinbase for Agents connects AI to financial execution channels to automate trading and payments directly from user portfolios. Large language models process vast quantities of data but lack direct integration with active financial portfolios. Individuals frequently employ these
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