Published May 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM
TechCrunch
May 15, 2026, 6:00 AM
What happens when AI starts building itself?

Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.
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