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Startups

India's MoEngage bets the future of marketing is millions of AI agents

Indian customer engagement platform MoEngage has acquired Aampe, a startup that assigns a dedicated AI agent to each customer, allowing brands to personalize messaging based on individual behavior rather than traditional audience segments.

TechCrunchJun 23
Industry Jun 23

Hollywood is bowing to OpenAI

Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.' Clockwork have all reportedly passed on picking up "Artificial" — director Luca Guadagnino's

The Verge
Industry Jun 23

Running list of major 2026 tech layoffs where employers cited AI

Tech layoffs hit their highest single month in years in May 2026, with AI the most-cited reason, according to outplacement firm Challenger,

TechCrunch
Tools Jun 22

Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to nearly eliminate water use

Nvidia claims that its Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usag

The Verge
Industry Jun 22

Meta Exposed Internal Data From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Meta is investigating a security issue in which employee data collected as part of a program to train artificial intelligence models was exp

WIRED
Industry Jun 22

AI virtual staging leaves renters with promises of impossible homes

A report from The Verge's Gaby Del Valle examines how generative AI is being used by real estate brokers to make rental listings look far be

The Verge
Industry Jun 20

Signal's Meredith Whittaker reminds users that AI chatbots 'are not your friends

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude "are not your friends," "not conscious beings," and "not

TechCrunch
Tools Jun 20

The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public.

The Verge
Industry Jun 20

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Nobel laureate John Jumper announced Friday that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly 9 years to join Anthropic. In a post on X, Jumpe

TechCrunch
Regulation Jun 18

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a unanimous order on Thursday directing six major U.S. grid operators to fast-track intercon

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Regulation Jun 19

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

Last Friday, the White House directed Anthropic to halt exports of its frontier AI models, Fable and Mythos, citing unspecified national sec

TechCrunch
Regulation Jun 19

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

The White House last Friday directed Anthropic to halt exports of its frontier AI models Fable and Mythos to any entity outside the United S

TechCrunch
Regulation Jun 19

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

The US government has forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns that emerge

TechCrunch
Regulation Jun 19

The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care

The US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, late last week over national security concerns. T

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 19

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is betting big on making artificial intelligence ubiquitous across India's daily digital life, un

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 19

The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM

The film "Artificial," directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Andrew Garfield, has been dropped by Amazon MGM. The movie covers the five d

The Verge
Industry Jun 19

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no team

Smartbird, the recently rebranded AI infrastructure company formerly known as Allbirds, has tapped former AWS executive Nadia Carlsten as it

TechCrunch
Regulation Jun 19

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has privately warned executives at ASML, the Dutch semiconductor equipment maker, that he believes on

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 19

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Barret Zoph has departed OpenAI for the second time in less than two years, ending a five-month stint as the company's head of enterprise AI

The Verge
Industry Jun 19

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

Enterprise search company Elastic has agreed to acquire DeductiveAI, a young startup using artificial intelligence to detect and resolve sof

TechCrunch
Startups Jun 18

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round

AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly on the verge of closing a massive $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, accordin

TechCrunch
Startups Jun 18

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

Snap is spinning off its internal generative AI video team into a standalone company called Dotmo, with the new venture aimed at building AI

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 18

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

OpenAI is making two high-profile hires as it prepares for an initial public offering, recruiting Noam Shazeer, one of the architects of mod

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 18

Amazon employees say they face termination for backing data center limits

Three Amazon software engineers — Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesl Wigand — testified at Seattle City Council hearings earlier th

The Verge
Tools Jun 18

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Google Workspace users who have grown weary of the persistent Gemini AI prompts invading their Google Docs now have a clear path to silence

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 17

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha has been appointed to SpaceX's board of directors, the company disclosed in a Securitie

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Startups Jun 17

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

Odyssey, a startup building AI "world models" that simulate the physical environment, has closed a $310 million Series B that pushes its val

TechCrunch
Research Jun 17

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

A new Pew Research study has revealed that only 16% of Americans believe artificial intelligence will have a positive impact on society over

TechCrunch
Research Jun 17

New Google research shows how AMIE medical AI could help manage health conditions

Google published research in Nature on AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer), its research AI system for medical reasoning and con

Google AI Blog
Tools Jun 17

Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

Pinterest unveiled a standalone experimental app called "Ask Pinterest" on Wednesday, June 17, betting that a chatbot-style interface can ex

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