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Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
Melius announced on Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in total funding. The round consists of a $20 million Series A…
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Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
During an exclusive interview with Mark Guiducci for Vanity Fair, an OpenAI publicist interrupted…
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HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
HackerRank is launching Chakra on Monday, an AI agent that conducts interviews, watches candidates…
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Anthropic is quietly becoming America’s biggest corporate donor ahead of its mega IPO
Anthropic employees donated more than $660 million to charities between October 2025 and March…
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Welcome RL Environments to the hub
Hugging Face adds a filter for reinforcement learning environments to its dataset hub An…
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Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight model that makes the case for European AI sovereignty
Aleph Alpha has launched Kolibri, a 78 billion parameter model trained primarily on German…
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Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Founders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 are no longer forced to pick a single AI…
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The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs from October 13 to 15 at Moscone West in San…
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Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them?
Generative AI control systems introduce unpredictability to robotics, creating a new safety hurdle for…
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People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer, I spoke with the CEO of Springboards, a startup building a…
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