Investors are getting nervous about AI infrastructure spending just as the Big Tech companies double down. Over the past two weeks, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and…
Author: Rebecca Bellan
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked |
Anthropic is building the same kind of cross-product ecosystem that helped make tech companies like Amazon and Uber enormously sticky, and its S-1 suggests the…
Anthropic officially files for its public debut |
7:35 AM PDT · October 26, 2026 After weeks of leaked S-1s, Anthropic finally filed for an initial public offering on Monday, setting the stage…
Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago |
Twelve years ago today, Eugenia Kuyda stood up onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt and presented a conversational chatbot called IO that acted as a lifestyle concierge…
Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world |
If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the…
Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation |
Microsoft president Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more…
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect |
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open letter denying the firm’s claims…
AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO |
In Brief Posted: 1:00 PM PDT · October 6, 2026 Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation,…
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior |
Startups that promise to predict how humans will behave are having a moment. Over the past year, Simile raised $200 million at a $2 billion…