Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup…
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Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching |
For years, Synthesia’s pitch was to use AI to help enterprises create interactive training videos, in minutes, for a fraction of the cost normally associated…
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models |
AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that…
General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world |
As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my…
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…