# techcrunch-ai

OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an outside law firm to work through its options.

Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026

A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.

Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multi-modal data to AI labs

Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.

Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27

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Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante

Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts

"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers."

Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.

Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.

Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners

For founders and investors, Anthropic's new offering signals that the AI platform wars are expanding downmarket and that the next major battleground for user acquisition isn't the Fortune 500; it's the 36 million small businesses that make up the backbone of the U.S. economy.

Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders

Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.

Who trusts Sam Altman?

"I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person," Altman testified in federal court.

Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life

Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.

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Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data

For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp.

WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats

Meta said these incognito conversations are not saved, and messages will disappear by default once you close the chat.

Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+

Alexa for Shopping is a new personalized AI shopping assistant in the Amazon search bar that replaces its Rufus assistant.

Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves

Adaption's new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning.