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Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
TechCrunch AI / 10:46 PM
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
TechCrunch AI / 10:23 PM
Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.
TechCrunch AI / 9:16 PM
Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
TechCrunch AI / 9:07 PM
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
TechCrunch AI / 6:45 PM
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
TechCrunch AI / 2:41 PM
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
TechCrunch AI / 11:00 AM
As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
TechCrunch AI / 12:09 AM
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
TechCrunch AI / 7:44 PM
The Hugging Face break-in explained
Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
TechCrunch AI / 8:17 PM
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
TechCrunch AI / 4:30 AM
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
TechCrunch AI / 12:13 AM
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
TechCrunch AI / 9:17 PM
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive
Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.
TechCrunch AI / 3:01 PM
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
TechCrunch AI / 7:40 PM
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
TechCrunch AI / 6:07 PM
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
TechCrunch AI / 3:51 PM
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
TechCrunch AI / 3:13 PM
Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
TechCrunch AI / 1:36 PM
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
TechCrunch AI / 8:49 PM
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
TechCrunch AI / 4:24 PM
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
TechCrunch AI / 8:50 PM
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.
TechCrunch AI / 8:19 PM
Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
TechCrunch AI / 9:29 PM
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
TechCrunch AI / 2:00 PM
Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
TechCrunch AI / 1:19 PM
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon
Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into compute, as the company seeks to automate its own product development process.
TechCrunch AI / 8:19 PM
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.
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