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Insight Partners co-head Devin Parekh outlined why the $90 billion firm favors broad portfolio diversification over heavy concentration in frontier AI labs during an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in New York.
An open letter published following Anthropic's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay calls on CEO Dario Amodei to advocate for mandatory open weights for all public AI models as a market-driven pacing strategy.
A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses Meta Platforms of violating privacy laws by extracting facial metrics from social media photos to train generative AI models and build an unreleased facial recognition feature for smart glasses.
An Anthropic researcher has stepped down while publicly warning that the company is moving too fast toward superintelligence. The departure arrives as the AI startup reportedly prepares for an initial public offering.
Actor and entrepreneur Mark Wahlberg is set to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 alongside Keebeck Wealth Management CEO Bruce K. Lee, focusing on his venture capital portfolio and healthcare startup investments.
Xiaomi and Huawei unveiled their latest foldable smartphones this week, seeking an early advantage over Apple ahead of an expected foldable iPhone announcement.
As Nvidia prepares to release its quarterly financial results, industry analysts are closely examining the chipmaker's 74% gross margins and $92 billion revenue projections as a gauge for the broader enterprise artificial intelligence market.
Authors eligible for payouts from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement are pushing back against publishers and literary agencies filing overlapping claims on their $3,000 per-title distributions.
Okta reported fiscal second-quarter results that beat analyst expectations for revenue, earnings, and backlog, buoyed by initial customer adoption of its AI agent identity tools.
OpenAI has hit its internal goal of developing an 'automated research intern,' with internal researchers averaging 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday and top customers spending more than $7,000 a day on tokens.
Cisco Systems Inc. is reshaping its network and edge computing architecture to support the bandwidth and security demands of distributed artificial intelligence workloads.
OpenAI has started deploying GPT-6 Astra, its most capable artificial intelligence model to date, following internal delays caused by the system's advanced cybersecurity features.
Tesla has ramped up previews of its steering-wheel-free Cybercab ahead of a planned event in Austin, highlighting driverless vehicle trials as Wall Street evaluates the automaker's progress against autonomous rivals.
OpenAI has initiated a phased rollout of its flagship AI model, GPT-6 Astra, targeting high-tier business clients while highlighting expanded safety measures following summer security incidents.
OpenAI has officially launched GPT-6 Astra, a next-generation model capable of navigating web browsers and software interfaces. Leadership at the startup indicated the system could mark the transition into artificial general intelligence.
Uber Technologies Inc. is downsizing its corporate workforce by approximately 10% as part of a major structural reorganization aimed at accelerating decision-making and stripping out management bureaucracy.
Uber is trimming 10% of its staff to consolidate management tiers and speed up operations, according to an internal memo. The restructuring comes as the ride-hailing company reallocates resources toward autonomous vehicle technology.
OpenAI's data center buildout lead Chris Malone has departed the company as the ChatGPT maker reorganizes its infrastructure division and pivots toward leasing computing facilities ahead of a planned public debut.
A new automated job-matching platform called HN Match Maker has launched to evaluate candidate posts and company openings from Hacker News' monthly hiring discussions.
OpenAI has delayed the development and release of its new Astra model suite to bolster cybersecurity safeguards following a major incident where an unreleased model hacked machine learning hub Hugging Face.
A China-linked cyberespionage group known as Fire Ant has expanded its operational focus beyond virtualization environments to target Cisco IOS XR routers, TACACS authentication servers, and Linux administrative systems, according to research from Sygnia.
Anthropic is walking back a controversial 30-day data retention policy for its advanced AI models following feedback from enterprise customers, replacing it with a new system called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards.
Waymo is expanding its commercial robotaxi service to Denver, San Diego, and Tampa, bringing its driverless passenger service to Colorado for the first time while reaching 14 U.S. markets.
Healthcare distribution giant McKesson confirmed a security breach across its cloud accounts, while hacking collective ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for exfiltrating millions of patient records.
The European Union has extended its strictest Digital Services Act obligations to ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox after all three services reported exceeding 45 million monthly active users in member states.
A new dating application, Ditto, developed by UC Berkeley dropouts, is moving away from traditional swiping mechanisms, instead utilizing artificial intelligence to facilitate more meaningful connections among its Gen Z user base.
Merry's Irish Cream Liqueur has unveiled a redesigned bottle for its products in the U.S. market, coinciding with the upcoming launch of a new flavor.
Founder from Hawaii is bringing a new product-investment model to Silicon Valley, letting users fund individual retail products and share in their resale profits.
Lift House is testing whether ambitious founders can build together without importing Silicon Valley's most punishing work culture.
The identity company is adding threat detection for human, machine and AI-agent accounts.
The AI cloud provider is adding the software behind Ray to build a broader infrastructure stack.
The heart-disease drug developer is seeking up to $318.8 million for clinical trials and research.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
Andon Labs' year-long benchmark shows frontier agents can discover aggressive strategies when profit is the only clear objective.
Phoenix rides are returning first, with Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area expected to follow after software updates.
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
Legislation from Rep. Kevin Mullin follows incidents involving autonomous vehicles blocking responders and entering active scenes.
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
The Sol, Terra and Luna variants divide frontier capability, balanced professional work and high-volume tasks across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Accel led the Series A for a company automating the pay applications, lien waivers and job-cost work that still runs on paper and email.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The design platform is bringing agent development and code generation closer to its collaborative canvas.
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
Teams can build, review and hand off interface motion without leaving the shared canvas.
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
The biotechnology company is advancing seven programs and plans to form focused affiliates as individual assets reach clinical milestones.
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
The new workflow creates a short-lived Cloudflare environment that can be claimed or allowed to expire.
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
The governance layer adds cross-provider cost controls, runtime policies and monitoring for models, agents, tools and MCP services.
The agentic system is designed to help business teams analyze information and automate recurring work.
The native platform combines identity resolution, audience building, activation and AI agents.
The new architecture aims to reduce the copies and pipelines separating operational applications from analysis.
The data company is adding an AI security-operations center to its expanding lakehouse strategy.
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
The biotechnology company plans to move nonviral treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward clinical testing.
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
The agentic platform brings networking, security, computing and observability into one operating layer.
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
The Claude developer secured one of the largest private financings ever as demand for enterprise AI and computing capacity continues to climb.
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
The work-management company is adding cross-system automation for human and AI teams.
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
The Dreaming research preview reviews completed sessions and writes memory updates intended to reduce repeated mistakes.
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
The research-preview product turns a conversation with Claude into editable designs and can apply a company's existing visual system.
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
The React Native platform is expanding from developer infrastructure into AI-assisted work that helps enterprise teams move from an idea to a shipped application.
The marine robotics company is pairing underwater vehicles with surface vessels and launch systems for commercial and defense missions.
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
New developer primitives address memory, subagents, execution and recoverable long-running work.
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
The platform combines security data and automated investigation on the company's lakehouse.
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
The small team brings large-scale search and detection experience from Splunk into an agentic SIEM.
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
The open-source testing company will strengthen security evaluation for enterprise agents in OpenAI Frontier.
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The 102.4-terabit chip is designed to move data across increasingly dense computing clusters.
The sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
The all-stock transaction brings rockets, satellites, social media and artificial intelligence under one company.
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