The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

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The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT.

While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.

An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, makes it land differently.  On […]

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch. 

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.