Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms
Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in ...
Russian propaganda is reportedly influencing AI chatbot results
Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's Meta AI, ...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at ...
SXSW 2025 live coverage: AI takes center stage
TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in ...
The People’s Bid for TikTok proposes letting users benefit from targeted ads
The People’s Bid for TikTok, a consortium organized by Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt, wants to let users take control of their personal data. At SXSW, McCourt and investor Kevin O’Leary ...
SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to
TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in ...
Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead
Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon's south pole and tipped over.
Discord is discussing an IPO
Discord — the chat app with over 200 million monthly users — is in early stage talks to IPO, the New York Times reports.
Threads tests adding ‘interests’ on profiles to connect users with topical discussions
Meta's Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social ...
‘Agentic AI is like putting your brain in a jar’
At least that’s what Signal President Meredith Whittaker thinks about this new paradigm of computing, where AI performs tasks ...
Google removes ‘underrepresented’ language from its grant website
Just weeks after Google said it would review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Google for Startups Founders ...
Google debuts a new Gemini-based text embedding model
Google has added a new, experimental 'embedding' model for text, Gemini Embedding, to its Gemini developer API.