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TechCrunch Tools & Products
67d ago

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost…

TechCrunch Research & Industry
67d ago

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting…

TechCrunch Model Releases
67d ago

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete…

OpenAI Model Releases
67d ago

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
68d ago

Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.

Hacker News Funding & Business
68d ago

YC is betting on robotics and physical AI startups

Went through 208 startups from YC's Winter and Summer 2026 batches to see what they're actually funding this year. Robotics was the biggest surprise. There are 32 robotics/physical AI companies,…

Hacker News Research & Industry
68d ago

Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking

Hi HN, I built PantheonGPU because I wanted a better way to answer a simple question: is this GPU actually healthy and performing the way it should? A GPU can…

Hacker News Model Releases
68d ago

Show HN: Deft Writing, an AI lab for non-slop LLMs

Announcing Deft, a new AI lab for better writing Currently, 86% of user queries are fully human according to pangram. This is still a small beta model and it might…

TechCrunch Tools & Products
68d ago

Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear

Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.

TechCrunch Research & Industry
68d ago

OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
68d ago

Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India

Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
69d ago

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and…

TechCrunch Funding & Business
68d ago

Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.

TechCrunch Model Releases
68d ago

OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

Ars Technica Funding & Business
69d ago

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
70d ago

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
69d ago

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
69d ago

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

Hacker News Model Releases
69d ago

Show HN: The AI Reputation Manager

Hey folks, I bootstrapped "More Good Reviews" to $170,000 in sales before building this. I just launched an MCP for AI reputation and review management. You can find it in…

Hacker News Model Releases
69d ago

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

Hi HN! I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models, given your constraints, among all our public benchmarked options, and…

TechCrunch Research & Industry
72d ago

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

Ars Technica Model Releases
72d ago

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

TechCrunch Model Releases
72d ago

Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that…

TechCrunch Model Releases
72d ago

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that…