Category: In Brief
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music | TechCrunch
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder, has jumped back into the music industry, and he tells The Information that...
Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art | TechCrunch
Critics of AI-generated art have a powerful new ally: His Holiness the Bishop of Rome (Episcopus Romanus), Primate...
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president | TechCrunch
In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President...
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation | TechCrunch
Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 million Series B...
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | TechCrunch
OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at...
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new product called Dots, an always-on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar....
OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | TechCrunch
OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at...
Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out | TechCrunch
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the White House is launching America.gov, an AI chatbot intended to...
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave...
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI | TechCrunch
Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft...
