Year: 2026
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips | TechCrunch
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1...
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI | TechCrunch
Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now,...
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets | TechCrunch
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of...
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label | TechCrunch
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a...
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunch
Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI,...
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and...
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google | TechCrunch
The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking...
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI | TechCrunch
Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter...
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus | TechCrunch
When it first happens to you, you think you’re crazy. You wander into a cafe and look at...
Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation | TechCrunch
Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded early last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in discussions...
