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Published Jul 1, 2026, 2:25 PM

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
Published Jul 1, 2026, 2:20 PM

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
Published Jul 1, 2026, 1:43 PM

Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Published Jul 1, 2026, 12:10 PM

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers yesterday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to s…
Published Jul 1, 2026, 2:16 AM

The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.
Published Jul 1, 2026, 2:04 AM

Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 9:53 PM

The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 8:33 PM

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 7:02 PM

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 6:13 PM

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 6:00 PM

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 5:52 PM

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 5:00 PM

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 3:08 PM

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 3:00 PM

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 4:01 AM

TechCrunch
A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.
Published Jun 30, 2026, 2:28 AM

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.
Published Jun 29, 2026, 8:12 PM

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
Published Jun 29, 2026, 7:47 PM

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tida…
Published Jun 29, 2026, 6:52 PM

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former A…
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