The past two weeks have been defined by a clash between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the two battle over…
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Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE ahead of public debut |
8:32 AM PST · February 26, 2026 Einride has secured an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) ahead of its public debut…
Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports |
Anthropic is accusing three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model to improve their own models.…
Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive |
The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary…
Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC |
In Brief Posted: 12:52 PM PST · February 20, 2026 Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a campaign…
AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: Faster, cheaper, lonelier |
A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the…
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull |
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of…
Vega raises $120M Series B to rethink how enterprises detect cyber threats |
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before…
Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips |
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed up…