Ethics & Regulation
Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards
A Gallup survey reveals that over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their local areas, with...
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Other Companies
Startups & Funding
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded
Khosla Ventures is investing $10M in Ian Crosby's new startup Synthetic, an AI-powered autonomous bookkeeping service...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & Regulation
Ten Chinese firms including ByteDance reportedly get US clearance for AI chips they're not allowed to accept
The US has approved roughly ten Chinese companies including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase up to 75,000...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
Rivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots
Rivian's spinoff company Mind has raised $400M in funding to scale deployment of its AI-powered industrial robots in...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
Nvidia Taps British AI Startup to Build ‘Next Frontier’ of AI
Nvidia partners with British AI startup Ineffable Intelligence to build model training infrastructure for...
AI Business
AI Agents
Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’
Cisco is laying off nearly 4,000 employees to reallocate resources toward AI development and initiatives. The company...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Exclusive: Xpanner Lands $18M To Offer ‘Automation As A Service’ To Construction Sites
Xpanner, a startup that automates construction work by retrofitting equipment with robotics and physical AI technology,...
Crunchbase News
Startups & Funding
Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs
Wirestock has raised $23M in funding to supply creative multimodal data including photos, videos, and 3D content to AI...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline...
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LLM
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4
Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.0, an image generation model that achieves twice the compression of competitors and...
The Decoder
LLM
ChatGPT's web traffic share dropped from 78% to 54% in one year as Gemini quietly tripled its reach
ChatGPT's web traffic share declined significantly from 77.6% to 53.7% over twelve months, while Google Gemini surged...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
April’s Most Active US Investors Included Some Usual Suspects, And Some Unusual Ones
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and...
Crunchbase News
AI Agents
Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots
British technology company Humanoid is deploying humanoid robots at German industrial supplier Schaeffler's...
AI News
AI Agents
Top real estate app development companies in the US: Abilities and costs
Real estate products depend on integrations, data flows, and compliance layers that rarely appear in marketing pages. A...
AI News
Research & Papers
Nous Research Releases Token Superposition Training to Speed Up LLM Pre-Training by Up to 2.5x Across 270M to 10B Parameter Models
Nous Research introduces Token Superposition Training (TST), a two-phase pre-training method that reduces wall-clock...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
Legal tech startup Clio has reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue, demonstrating strong customer adoption in...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Cerebras Sees Sizzling Demand For IPO Shares
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is going public on the Nasdaq after years of private fundraising and previously...
Crunchbase News
AI Agents
Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents
Notion has launched a new developer platform that enables teams to integrate AI agents, external data sources, and...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & Regulation
Enterprise AI Governance in 2026: Why the Tools Employees Use Are Ahead of the Policies That Cover Them
63% of organizations lack AI governance policies, leaving enterprises vulnerable to unauthorized AI tool usage. The...
MarkTechPost