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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI

Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer

The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine

Sorry, haters. Ferrari’s first EV is doing just fine

Waymo robotaxis are starting to return to freeways

US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security

Google brings its age-assurance technology to Android developers worldwide

Elon Musk’s X settles multiyear legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation

Spotify adds a running mode to its app

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy

The robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope tumbled out of control

Waymo, robotaxi operators face fresh scrutiny over emergency response failures

eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019

These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

HBO Max embraces vertical video with a new ‘Shorts’ feed

Saudi prince buys 5% stake in Lucid Motors

Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid

PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover offer following earnings beat

Elon Musk’s X Money app is rolling out in the US

WhatsApp now lets you make calls using its web app

Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises

Apple launches ‘Upgrade’ device leasing program in partnership with Klarna

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

Granola launches an Apple Watch app

Lyft and Baidu enter London’s robotaxi battleground as testing begins

Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors

As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube

PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam cost users $1.8M