SpaceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a 2026 IPO that could provide the reset the market needs. The company just completed a tender offer at an $800 billion valuation, and secondary market demand is through the roof. If SpaceX goes public anywhere near its rumored $1.5 trillion valuation, it could trigger an IPO cascade for other late-stage...
WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message....
The organic kids' snack food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows....
A viral new virtual assistant formerly known as Clawdbot is complex and brings security risks—but some early adopters say it feels like the future....
The deal is structured as an acquihire of nine key Cleanlab's researchers....
Google Chrome is adding Gemini in sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users...
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a US company....
Apple’s Creator Studio Pro leverages AI to help creators with tedious tasks—like finding clips or building slides—without trying to do the work for them...
How do you build tooling for the AI software stack? A company called Modelence has an interesting answer....
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ASML’s record orders show chipmakers are still betting big on AI data centers....
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Across Europe’s largest cities, people are gathering for semi-silent, offline hangouts, in search of an experience that isn’t mediated through their smartphones....
Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform....
Google's launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini....
Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon....
By Rotation, one of the U.K.’s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, is partnering with Uber to deliver ski clothes....
This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch....
Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports....
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message....
Gemini 3 Pro and other AI tools are now available globally through the Google AI Plus plan, which is $7.99 per month in the United States....
OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research papers....
The tech giant also announced that it's making Gemini 3 the new default model for AI Overviews globally....
A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials....
Designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures....
SuperAgent is Airtable's first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company's ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents....
“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch....
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens....
Flora's node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate....
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers....