Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI...

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain...

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

Ghost's first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person's behalf.

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.

TechCrunch attended Pear’s latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI.

HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.

OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after your image generation results appear in the U.S. only for now.

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Lola Vision Systems is one of the Startup Battlefield 200 companies battling it out at TechCrunch Disrupt, taking place October 13-15 in San Francisco.

The Danish government said the breach of names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers affects 8 million people, including people living abroad and the deceased.

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

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Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

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