Slate Auto will announce EV pricing and accept pre-orders on June 24th
Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos and Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter, will announce pricing for its low-cost electric vehicle on June 24 and begin accepting non-refundable pre-orders ahead of first deliveries later this year. The company sent an email to prospective buyers on Thursday, inviting them to make a […]
Asana acquires no-code agent builder StackAI
Asana has acquired workflow automation company StackAI for $75 million. This is part of a larger effort to position itself as an AI-native workplace platform. StackAI founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno will join Asana as part of the acquisition. Asana positioned the acquisition as part of a broader AI axis, building its platform into […]
Hackers seek to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks
Hackers are targeting Signal users to steal chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, according to a TechCrunch investigation. On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new type of attack against Signal users. The hacker poses as the app’s support team and warns the target that their backed […]
Anthropic raises $65 billion, approaches $1 trillion valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation in its latest funding round, which could be the AI startup’s last private funding before its public market debut. The Series H round was co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners and others. Institutional investors […]
AI token futures trading will soon be possible, just like gold and oil
The most important market of the future could be the LLM token, and financial groups are rushing to build new infrastructure for it. China’s Shanghai Futures Exchange is currently designing a derivatives market for AI tokens, Reuters reported. The news comes as major derivatives exchanges CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange (owner of the NYSE) announced […]
Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new “Dynamic Workflow” tools
On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the latest version of its most advanced publishing model. This model is available everywhere at the same standard price as previous Opus releases. The new model was released just 41 days after Opus 4.7 was released, a much faster upgrade cycle than Anthropic’s usual. (The latest Sonnet and Haiku […]
Waymo’s latest robotaxis are made in China, built to make money, and are now accepting passengers.
Waymo has begun offering access to its newest robotaxis to select passengers in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco. Robotaxis are minivan-like fully electric vehicles designed to reduce costs and address the use and abuse of hundreds of thousands of passengers. Waymo announced Thursday that it will eventually expand access to its fleet of modified […]
US senator warns advertising industry is ‘national security threat’, says military targeted by location data
The U.S. Department of Defense has acknowledged that adversaries are using commercial location data to target and monitor military personnel serving in the battlefield. This is the latest demonstration of how information collected from phones and computers can be misused to track and target individuals. In a letter shared with TechCrunch by Sen. Ron Wyden, […]
How long is Anthropic’s contract with SpaceX? Opinions vary.
Earlier this month, xAI signed a massive computing deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars each month for exclusive use of the company’s Colossus cluster. This was a coup for both companies, delivering much-needed revenue to xAI and helping Anthropic catch up in the never-ending computing race. But this morning on X, Elon Musk downplayed […]
Sesame, a conversational AI startup led by Oculus founders, releases iOS app
Sesame, the AI startup co-founded by the founders of Oculus and officials from the VR company they sold to Meta, on Thursday released a public preview of a conversational AI agent it has been developing for more than a year. With its new iOS app, Sesame is rethinking the traditional AI chatbot experience popularized by […]