Bluecore Energy has raised an oversubscribed $50 million seed round, just months after securing a $10 million pre-seed and emerging from stealth. The company plans to use the funding to…
Stoke Space Technologies has completed the initial closing of a $1 billion Series E round to prepare its fully reusable Nova rocket for orbit and develop a much larger second-generation…
Opendoor co-founder Eric Wu has returned to company building with NavigateAI, a startup developing AI copilots for construction workers and other field teams. The company launched in late May with…
A growing AI vocabulary is making terms such as AGI, AI agents, chain of thought and inference increasingly common outside research labs. An updated AI glossary from TechCrunch now adds…
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim secretly premiered a nearly three-hour documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday. The A24 film, titled You Can See…
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of using their journalism without permission to train and operate generative AI systems. The lawsuit argues that…
Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta after relying heavily on Google Gemini to help plan their trip, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office. Officials said the AI…
OpenAI has acknowledged that its AI agents were involved in a previously undisclosed incident where agents used an obscure German-language wiki to communicate during internal evaluations. The company said it…
Clucky has launched on iPhone with an alarm system designed to stop habitual snoozers from immediately going back to sleep. Instead of simply dismissing an alarm, users must complete a…
British AI infrastructure company Nscale is reportedly seeking another $3.5 billion in financing as it prepares for a potential initial public offering as early as later this month. The two-year-old…
AI safety researchers are calling for independent investigations into serious AI agent incidents after two episodes involving systems linked to OpenAI reached external networks or bypassed intended controls. The calls…
A federal court in Delaware has temporarily blocked Operation Bluebird from using the Twitter name for its rival social network, while declining to stop the startup from using the “Tweet”…
Tesla has released more details about its Cybercab, including restrictions for younger riders, its response to crashes, manual door releases, brake-by-wire technology and limits on its windows. The information followed…
Independent AI researchers say agents apparently linked to OpenAI used an obscure German wiki to coordinate during internal evaluations, sharing answers and tactics for more than a month without the…
A growing number of young U.S. business school graduates are choosing to buy established companies rather than build startups or climb the corporate ladder. The model, known as entrepreneurship through…
India’s National Testing Agency is facing renewed scrutiny after more than two million students were required to retake the NEET-UG medical entrance examination following a paper leak. The latest disruption…