In Brief Posted: 1:05 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 Image Credits:Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg / Getty Images Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington,...Read More
In Brief Posted: 2:24 PM PDT · May 9, 2025 Image Credits:Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Manus AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, recently raising $75...Read More
Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we...Read More
Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it has...Read More
Image Credits:Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch 2:54 PM PDT · May 2, 2025 Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their...Read More
AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can be used to “cheat on everything” from job interviews to...Read More
Image Credits:Laurence Dutton / Getty Images 2:43 PM PDT · April 23, 2025 AI coding assistant startup Windsurf cut its prices “across the board” it announced on Monday, touting “massive...Read More
OpenAI and The Washington Post just announced a new content partnership that will see ChatGPT summarize and link to the Post’s original reporting in its answers. This is OpenAI’s latest...Read More
Retaining top AI talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, OpenAI, and other heavyweights. Google’s AI division, DeepMind, has resorted to using “aggressive” noncompete agreements for some AI staff...Read More
Generative AI has vastly expanded the toolkit available to hackers and other bad actors. It’s now possible to do everything from deepfaking a CEO to creating fake receipts. OpenAI, the...Read More
