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Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working? | TechCrunch

Loading the player…When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should...

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
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For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts | TechCrunch

With little help from frontier labs, independent researchers are piecing together how AI agents coordinate in internet backwaters...

Ricursive Intelligence founders
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Ricursive Intelligence’s co-founders join Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

AI needs increasingly powerful chips. But designing those chips is itself a slow, complex process. What happens when...

Oracle CTO Larry Ellison onstage at Oracle Open world
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Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center | TechCrunch

Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a Stargate data center campus...

ElevenLabs' founder Mati Staniszewski
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ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot | TechCrunch

ElevenLabs builds the voice layer of AI, the models that turn text into speech that sounds human. Most...

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Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you | TechCrunch

With AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct now able to make calls on users’ behalf, Google is...

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Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors talk AI at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

An AI chatbot can give you a bad answer. An AI system controlling an aircraft, vehicle, or robot...

Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin
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Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off | TechCrunch

Lovable has crossed annual run-rate revenue of $600 million, the company’s co-founder Fabian Hedin said at the HumanX...

Mark Zuckerberg
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Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent | TechCrunch

The AI amulet has become a bit of a cliché in the tech industry — devices like Friend...

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Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari joins the Disrupt 2026 lineup | TechCrunch

What happens when the app you started in high school goes viral?For Zach Yadegari, the answer was more...