AI News 2026

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Industry

Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores

A startup called Shift is offering to clean New Yorkers' homes for free — with one condition. The company wants to record everything its cleaners do: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting furniture, mopping floors. Shift plans to expand this service to London and other citie

The VergeMay 29
Industry May 29

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them

In February 2026, AI research lab METR encountered a significant obstacle while attempting to update earlier research on AI coding productiv

TechCrunch
Startups May 29

After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the infere

TechCrunch
Industry May 29

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

Box founder Aaron Levie has coined the term "AI psychosis" to describe a troubling pattern in corporate America: the executives making decis

TechCrunch
Startups May 29

AI Chipmaker Groq Targets $650M Funding to Rival Nvidia

AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios.

TechCrunch
Industry May 28

Just like gold and oil, we’ll soon be able to trade AI token futures

China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is developing a derivatives market specifically for AI tokens, joining CME Group and the Intercontinental

TechCrunch
Startups May 29

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services, but customers will have to accept a small trade-off: cameras mounted on c

The Verge
Industry May 29

Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point

Glean, the enterprise AI search platform sometimes called "the Google for work," has hit $300 million in annual recurring revenue, tripling

TechCrunch
Startups May 28

Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

Anthropic has closed a massive $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI company for what could b

TechCrunch
Industry May 28

The internet is being rebuilt for machines

Amazon Web Services has launched a new version of OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector database specifically designed fo

TechCrunch
Industry May 28

Asana Acquires StackAI for $75M to Become AI-First Workplace Platform

Asana has purchased StackAI, a no-code agent-building platform, for $75 million as part of its push to become an AI-first workplace platform

TechCrunch
Models May 28

Anthropic Drops Opus 4.8 with New Dynamic Workflow Tool After Record 41-Day Cycle

Anthropic has launched Opus 4.8, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model, marking the fastest upgrade cycle in the company's recent hi

TechCrunch
Tools May 28

Vertu's $6,880 Alphafold Targets CEOs with AI Assistant

Vertu, the luxury smartphone maker headquartered in Hong Kong, has unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable device designed specifically for busin

TechCrunch
Tools May 28

YouTube will let you ask AI to make a custom video feed

YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered feature that generates personalized video feeds based on text descriptions of what viewers want to w

The Verge
Industry May 27

SEO Is Dead: AI Has Hijacked Search Results—Most Brands Don't Know It

Google's annual developer conference I/O made it clear that AI-generated responses have taken over the front page of search results, and mos

TechCrunch
Models May 28

Google's AI Can't Spell 'Google' — Or Much of Anything Else

Google's AI Overview feature is making elementary spelling mistakes that have become the subject of ridicule online. The artificial intellig

TechCrunch
Industry May 27

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services in a new cloud infrastructure agreement, the companies revealed We

TechCrunch
Industry May 27

Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount

Remote, a seven-year-old payroll company headquartered in Amsterdam, announced it has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and a

TechCrunch
Startups May 27

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation

Cognition, the startup behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has secured over $1 billion in new funding at a $25 billion pre-mon

TechCrunch
Industry May 27

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Meta is expanding its subscription business with new monthly plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp users worldwide. The company announ

TechCrunch
Industry May 26

Pichai on AI Revolution: 'We Need to Rethink Google

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sat down with The Verge's Nilay Patel for their fifth consecutive post-I/O developer conference interv

The Verge
Industry May 26

Nobody wants to tell me why they only listen to their own Suno slop

A growing number of Suno users have essentially stopped listening to traditional music entirely, instead spending their time consuming AI-ge

The Verge
Industry May 26

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket rates end May 29

The countdown is on for startup founders and tech professionals looking to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird ticket pricing, which

TechCrunch
Industry May 27

Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical may have been partially written by artificial intelligence. A detailed analysis by researcher Linch Zhang, s

The Verge
Industry May 26

DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30% as Users Flee Google's AI Search

DuckDuckGo has seen a significant boost in user adoption following Google's announcement of major changes to its search engine. The privacy-

TechCrunch
Startups May 26

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, has secured $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet's growth venture f

TechCrunch
Startups May 26

This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots

Human Archive, a Silicon Valley-based startup, has raised $8.2 million in seed funding to pursue an unconventional strategy: using workers f

TechCrunch
Industry May 26

Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok have renewed their licensing agreement with a focus on removing unauthorized AI-generated music from

TechCrunch
Regulation May 26

AI warfare is already here

At a United Nations meeting in Geneva in November 2017, attendees of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons—a group focused on letha

The Verge
Industry May 25

Pope Leo Issues First Encyclical: AI Must Serve Humanity, Not Replace It

Pope Leo XIV issued his first major papal encyclical on Monday, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," which calls on world leaders to establish new

The Verge
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