Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living |

Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a theory about where the next wave of startup opportunity lies, and it starts with a question…

Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats |

AI startup Decart on Wednesday unveiled Oasis 3, its latest interactive world model that can generate photorealistic driving environments in real time, TechCrunch has exclusively…

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute |

11:00 AM PDT · April 24, 2026 Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs,…

Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal |

Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar agreement to expand its use of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including…

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed 'side quests' |

1:38 PM PDT · April 17, 2026 OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s…

Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project |

AI video generation startup Luma has launched Innovative Dreams, a production company built in partnership with Wonder Project, a streaming service that produces religious films…

Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D’Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system: People who felt…

Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions and ignored her warnings |

After months of conversations with ChatGPT, a 53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur became convinced he’d discovered a cure for sleep apnea and that powerful people were…

The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era |

When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica…

Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups |

Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them. The AI video generation startup has launched…