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Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else’s AI agent.

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: It’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.

As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right.

A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.

Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?

Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.

Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.

SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.

The buyout offers mark Microsoft’s latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

The new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design than its predecessor.

Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.

Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla’s FSD software.

There are numerous apps on the market that promise to do just that, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the best ones to help you pick the right one for you.

The footage looks okay, as long as you’re not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

“That’s a 12-year-old view of the world.”

“Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.”

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine’s Starlink access.

The moment you realize the internet is “held together by glue and dreams.”

Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it’s unlikely to be the last major software scare.

From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple’s first foldable iPhone.

A new study found Grok’s AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI’s GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display.

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn’t work.

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a “nap,” and summersaulted on voice command.