· 16 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
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· 16 days ago· TechCrunch AI
OpenAI executive shuffle includes new role for COO Brad Lightcap to lead ‘special projects’
In addition to Lightcap's new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.
· 16 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party
Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX's looming IPO poised to reshape the landscape for everyone.
· 17 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app
Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.
· 17 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models
MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.
· 17 days ago· TechCrunch AI
OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.
· 18 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Less than a month: StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together
StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.
· 18 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try
The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.
· 18 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota
Meta's upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.
· 18 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
With its new app store, Ring bets on AI to go beyond home security
Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time “video intelligence” applications.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles
The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub
You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon
Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise
OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features
Slack just got a whole lot more useful.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Anthropic is having a month
A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project
The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.
· 20 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Why OpenAI really shut down Sora
OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?