Category: In Brief
Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model | TechCrunch
Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the...
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft | TechCrunch
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and...
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...
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...
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...
Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft | TechCrunch
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train...
Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning | TechCrunch
Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta this week after using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini to plan...
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing | TechCrunch
Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may go public as...
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026 | TechCrunch
While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according...
Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue | TechCrunch
One of China’s most prominent AI labs, Moonshot AI, believes it can turn its popular open-weight model into...
