Category:AI & Automation

astra model OpenAI says it is pausing internal work on an in-development model called Astra after internal testing suggested it may be edging close to capabilities the company now classifies as too risky. The move comes as the AI industry…

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a platform it originally built for internal use to let employees create apps with AI agents, including people who are not software developers or engineers. The company says the system is paired with a security…

ai pacing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is signaling that the AI industry may need to slow down and “pace” itself, and he is not the only prominent voice making that case. The latest TechCrunch Equity discussion examines whether the sector…

mcp stateless The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, has received its biggest update since launch, and the headline change is designed to solve the very problem that has kept it from scaling cleanly in enterprise environments: it is now stateless….

Artificial intelligence is forcing startups to rethink how they build, sell, secure and scale products, and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is set to put those pressures front and center. At the conference’s AI Stage, presented by Google for Startups, founders and…

Anthropic has released Opus 5, but the new model looks less like a dramatic leap in frontier AI capability and more like another step in the industry’s increasingly cost-focused race to make coding models more efficient. The update appears to…

gemini 3 6 flash Google has updated its Gemini lineup again, rolling out Gemini 3.6 Flash, introducing a cybersecurity-focused model, and offering a first look at its longer-term plans for Gemini 4. The company also confirmed that Gemini 3.5 Pro…

OpenAI has taken a first, highly visible step into hardware with a $230 keyboard built for Codex, even as the company faces a separate legal fight over its broader device ambitions. The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboard maker Work…

OpenAI has unveiled its first branded piece of hardware, and it is not the much-rumored smart speaker or a screenless AI wearable. Instead, the company is selling a $230 “Codex Micro,” an RGB-lit mini-keyboard designed to help users track and…

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to leave the ChatGPT maker and launch a new startup focused on AI drug discovery, with discussions reportedly centering on a $200 million raise at a $2 billion valuation. The company would add…

Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is in talks to raise a new funding round that would value the company at $1.5 billion, according to three sources familiar with the deal. The round is being led by…

pixverse raises PixVerse, the Singapore-based video-generation startup, says it has raised a total of $439 million in its Series C extension, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The company said the new funding will help it expand its world model…

Security researchers are increasingly treating prompt injection not just as an attack vector, but as a defensive tool. According to Tracebit, adding malicious-looking instructions next to exposed secrets in cloud environments can cause AI hacking agents to stop in their…

gpt-5 6 models OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.6, a new family of models the company says is designed to push further into enterprise work, coding, scientific research, and cybersecurity. Announced Thursday, the release arrives in an increasingly crowded AI market and…

Open source AI models are gaining ground fast in usage, but new evidence suggests the boom is not yet taking a meaningful bite out of Anthropic’s enterprise revenue. Instead, the market appears to be splitting into two layers: cheaper open…

norm funding AI law startup Norm has raised $120 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, giving the nearly three-year-old company a $1.2 billion valuation and marking its entry into unicorn territory. The funding adds to a…

vercel ceo guillermo rauch on the fight Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch discusses the ongoing challenge of separating machine learning models from the agents that utilize them, emphasizing the importance of optimizing for both price and performance in production environments. vercel…

secret claude tracker shocks users after anthropic Anthropic has faced backlash after it was revealed that a tracker monitoring Claude Code users in China was secretly implemented, contradicting the company’s stated commitment to user privacy. secret claude tracker shocks users…

some of the nation s rich are Amid widespread skepticism regarding artificial intelligence, a select group of affluent families in the United States is embracing AI as a primary educational tool for their children. some of the nation s rich…

new google commercial imagines a declaration of A new Google commercial creatively explores the hypothetical scenario of the Founding Fathers utilizing modern technology, specifically Google Workspace, to draft the Declaration of Independence. new google commercial imagines a declaration of Concept…