OpenAI brings in consultants to promote the company
OpenAI is an AI company aiming to grow enterprise businesses in 2026, strengthening its partnerships with four leading consulting companies. OpenAI announced the Frontier Alliance on Monday. This shows that AI Lab is willing to try different approaches to get companies to meaningfully adopt its technology. The collaboration includes a multi-year partnership between OpenAI and […]
Guide Labs Debuts New Kind of Interpretable LLM
The challenge when discussing deep learning models is often understanding why the model behaves the way it does. Whether it’s xAI’s repeated struggle sessions to fine-tune Grok’s bizarre politics, or ChatGPT’s struggles with sycophants and mundane hallucinations, connecting neural networks with billions of parameters isn’t easy. Guide Labs, a San Francisco startup founded by CEO […]
Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts and finds interesting clips so you don’t have to
An AI news app called Particle, developed by a former Twitter engineer, can now keep track of not only news published on the web, but also breaking news in podcasts. Ahead of its recent Android release, Particle introduced a feature called Podcast Clips. It finds the most interesting and relevant moments from different types of […]
5 days left until 2026 Disrupt rates are locked in at their lowest levels
The last five days to save up to $680 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets are officially over. These yearly lowest rates expire on February 27th at 11:59 PM PT. If you’re planning your 2026 technology events calendar, now is not the time to wait. Register now to secure savings before prices go up. What to […]
Secretary of Defense summons Antropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude
Axios reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss military use of Claude. The meeting comes as the Pentagon threatens to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk” (a label typically given to foreign adversaries) after the AI company refused to allow the Pentagon […]
Can the creator economy survive the flood of AI?
Online creators and their business models became our focus this week after super-popular YouTuber Mr.Beast announced he would be acquiring fintech startup Step. Then, Hollywood studios sent a flurry of cease-and-desist letters over the launch of ByteDance’s new video generation model SeaDance 2.0. These seemingly unconnected headlines suggest a media landscape in the midst of […]
Bill Gurley says the worst thing you can do for your career right now is play it safe.
For nearly 30 years, Bill Gurley has been one of Silicon Valley’s most influential voices, a general partner at Benchmark, an early investor in companies like Uber, Zillow, and Stitch Fix, and helped define what modern venture capital looks like. Now, having moved to Austin and taken a break from active investing, the Texas native […]
President Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it does not fire director Susan Rice
President Donald Trump said in a social media post Saturday that Netflix will “pay the consequences” if it does not fire Susan Rice, who has served on the company’s board since 2018. Trump’s comments came after Rice, a former U.N. ambassador who served in diplomatic and advisory roles in the Obama and Biden administrations, appeared […]
China’s brain-computer interface industry moves forward
Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say that it is a “pioneer” in brain-computer interfaces (BCI), but China’s BCI industry is already quietly transitioning from research to scale-up. With stronger policy support, expanded clinical trials, and increased investor interest, a new wave of startups is racing to commercialize both implantable and non-invasive BCIs. So says Phoenix […]
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Super early bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends on February 27th at 11:59pm PT. That means you only have six days left to secure this year’s lowest-priced flights. If Disrupt is on your must-attend list, now’s your chance. Save up to $680 on individual passes and secure up to 30% off on community passes […]