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Manus raises over $500M to rebuild its agent alone

The Chinese agent developer lands a Boyu Capital-led round at a reported $4B valuation after…

Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.

TypeSafe banks $870M at a $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch

TypeSafe, maker of the non-text Jev model, has raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led…

Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling

Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of…

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The media mogul argues that the real danger of AGI isn't Sam Altman's character, but that even its creators are…

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Samsung's $1 trillion valuation is built on a chip shortage that is now starving its own consumer products, creating internal…

The Hustle Trap: TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Bets Credibility Can Be Bought at Half Price

TechCrunch Disrupt's last minute BOGO deal on passes reveals a softening market for expensive conferences, as founders increasingly rely on…

SAP’s Billion Dollar Bet on a Baby AI Lab Reveals Its Agentic AI Panic

SAP's billion dollar acquisition of Prior Labs and simultaneous API lockdown reveals a company desperate to control the agentic AI…

The Ghost Kitchen 2.0: Marc Lore’s AI Dream Factory Promises a Restaurant in 60 Seconds

Marc Lore's Wonder Create platform uses AI to let anyone design a restaurant in 60 seconds, but its real goal…

ShinyHunters Tore Open Instructure’s Vault: 275 Million Student Records Exposed

Instructure's Canvas platform was breached by ShinyHunters, exposing 275 million records including student-teacher messages, while the company's evasive response raises…

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Ouster's claim that its new Rev8 sensor can replace both a lidar and a camera by combining them on a…

Jensen Huang’s Job Fairy Tale Collides With Nvidia’s Profit Machine

Despite Jensen Huang's sunny reassurances about AI creating jobs, the Nvidia CEO's narrative conveniently ignores that his company profits directly…