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Published Aug 26, 2026, 12:40 AM

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
Published Aug 26, 2026, 12:06 AM

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
Published Aug 25, 2026, 7:03 PM

TechCrunch
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
Published Aug 25, 2026, 6:52 PM

The Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According t…
Published Aug 25, 2026, 5:50 PM

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
Published Aug 25, 2026, 5:20 PM

The Geoff Keighley-hosted Opening Night Live event at Gamescom just wrapped up. Arguably the biggest announcement was the closer: a remastered version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from CD Projekt Red that’s launching in September. But the show also featured a bunch of trailers for others games, including Gears of War: E-Day, Capcom’s upcoming Mega…
Published Aug 25, 2026, 2:22 PM

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
Published Aug 25, 2026, 1:00 PM

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.
Published Aug 25, 2026, 12:00 PM

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.
Published Aug 25, 2026, 12:23 AM

TechCrunch
The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."
Published Aug 24, 2026, 6:03 PM

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs.
Published Aug 24, 2026, 3:24 PM

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.
Published Aug 24, 2026, 3:00 PM

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
Published Aug 24, 2026, 2:20 PM

MIT Tech Review
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…
Published Aug 24, 2026, 2:00 PM

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Tim Cadogan, the CEO of GoFundMe. You know GoFundMe — it’s a major fundraising platform where you can donate to help people with everything from medical expenses to Little League uniforms to starting a new business. Tim took over as CEO in March 2020 — a fascinating and chaotic moment in the United States, and th…
Published Aug 24, 2026, 1:47 PM

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
Published Aug 24, 2026, 12:10 PM

MIT Tech Review
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. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer to use human language requires an inhuman amount of data. An LLM can easily churn through a hundred thousand times…
Published Aug 24, 2026, 9:30 AM

The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
Published Aug 24, 2026, 9:00 AM

MIT Tech Review
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child. Now there are two. Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…
Published Aug 23, 2026, 8:01 PM

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.
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