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Anthropic and OpenAI Are Sending Their Top People to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's Why It Matters.
The AI Stage at Disrupt 2026 is tackling the questions founders actually lose sleep over: how to price AI products, who secures the systems making autonomous decisions, and what a brand-new job category means for the rest of tech.
Barret Zoph lands at Google after a year of bouncing between OpenAI and Thinking Machines
The AI researcher has held four senior roles in roughly 18 months. His latest stop is Google's Gemini team, where his expertise in reinforcement learning will be put to work.
Google's new video AI can extend a scene, jump to 4K, and cost less to test
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lands in the Gemini API with scene extension, keyframe control, cheap 360p drafts and 4K upscaling. Here is what it costs and who actually pays.
Greg Brockman Is Now Running OpenAI's Day-to-Day Operations
While Sam Altman courts investors and plans a stock market listing, OpenAI's co-founder Greg Brockman has quietly taken charge of almost every major product the company makes, from ChatGPT to its enterprise business.
Salesforce and Anthropic team up as customers get billed by the sip
A new Claude-powered product and strong quarterly numbers lifted Salesforce's share price, but the company's credit-based pricing model is drawing fresh scrutiny from analysts who warn of hidden cost spikes.
ChatGPT Will Now Show Ads to Free Users in India
OpenAI is rolling out advertisements inside ChatGPT for its free and low-cost subscribers in India, starting with 50 brands and a self-serve ad tool arriving next month.
Nvidia's Next Big Test: Can Ordinary Businesses Pick Up Where Amazon and Google Leave Off?
Nvidia earns most of its money from a handful of giant tech companies. Investors watching Wednesday's earnings want proof that thousands of smaller firms are finally starting to spend too.
Nvidia Just Posted $96 Billion in a Single Quarter. It Thinks $108 Billion Is Next.
The chip maker's data center sales more than doubled in a year, driven by relentless demand for AI hardware. Consumer GPU buyers are feeling the squeeze.
Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Computing Deal with British Startup Nscale
The AI company behind Claude is locking up computing power at a pace that suggests it expects AI demand to keep climbing hard through the rest of the decade.
Meta drew up plans to cut some teams by 60 percent in a push to run on AI
An internal project called 'Organisation Transformation' mapped out deep headcount reductions. Meta confirmed the plan existed but has not said which teams were in scope.
A $500 Billion AI Datacenter Is Being Built in Rural Ohio. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.
OpenAI, Nvidia and Japanese investors are pouring half a trillion dollars into what could be the world's largest AI computing facility, tucked into the Appalachian foothills near Piketon, Ohio. The jobs sound good. The questions about land, water and power are harder.
OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Losing Executives Even Faster. Here's Why.
More than a dozen senior leaders have left OpenAI since January. The company's co-founder is quietly picking up the pieces, and a closely-watched stock market debut hangs over everything.
Radar turns podcasts into searchable, AI-readable data
A startup called Particle has built a search engine that transcribes more than 130,000 podcasts and makes the spoken word inside them usable by AI agents. Hedge funds are already paying for it.
QueryStory: Making AI Data Analysis More Trustworthy
QueryStory uses AI to help businesses turn complex data into reliable stories, aiming for accuracy and transparency.
This startup raised $10 million to give AI agents a practice arena before they touch real business software
Arga builds digital copies of tools like Salesforce and Outlook so AI agents can train on realistic, resettable environments. The problem it is solving turns out to be the main reason enterprise AI agents keep failing.