Elon Musk has announced a significant development at SpaceX, revealing that the company is constructing a secretive foundry in Bastrop, Texas, aimed at manufacturing turbine blades. This initiative is crafted to address one of the critical supply issues hindering the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure: the production of gas turbines. Musk stated that this […]
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, along with other music publishers, have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and its co-founders, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, claiming that the AI lab engaged in an "audacious campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works." This lawsuit was submitted in the U.S. District Court for the Northern […]
Neocloud Lambda, a company specializing in AI cloud computing, has successfully secured $1 billion in private debt to acquire Nvidia’s AI chips. The intention is to lease these chips specifically to Microsoft, as reported by Bloomberg. JP Morgan Chase facilitated this arrangement, and Lambda anticipates rapid deployment of the chips to begin generating revenue swiftly, […]
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage will focus on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on startups, sales, and enterprise operations. Taking place from October 13–15 in San Francisco at the Moscone Center, this year’s events will delve into topics like AI business models, security challenges, and new job dynamics that have emerged due […]
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has successfully closed a $200 million Series D funding round, aimed at expanding its driverless freight operations in North America. The investment was spearheaded by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with notable contributions from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital, among others. Gatik reports having over $600 […]
Stability AI, the company known for its AI image generation model, Stable Diffusion, has successfully raised $76 million in Series B funding. This latest funding round elevates its total raised to $232 million. On Tuesday, the company revealed that the new capital includes investments from several major players in the entertainment industry, such as Universal […]
President Donald Trump recently revealed that he purchased up to $50,000 in SpaceX shares on June 23, shortly after the company’s record-setting initial public offering (IPO). This information was disclosed in a financial report first reported by Reuters. At the time of the purchase, SpaceX shares had dropped from their peak of over $200 and […]
In August 2025, TypeScript emerged as the most utilized programming language on GitHub, marking a significant change in the platform’s language rankings over the past decade. This shift coincided with a noticeable rise in the adoption of coding AI agents, which were initially expected to diminish the importance of selecting programming languages. It was thought […]
Harvard Business School is launching an innovative $699 startup bootcamp that incorporates AI avatars of its instructors, designed to offer personalized feedback to budding entrepreneurs. The program, known as HBS Foundry, spans eight weeks and includes live sessions with actual instructors, while the AI avatars play a crucial role in providing feedback during rehearsal pitches […]
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine Anthropic’s Cluade models have strict guidelines against generating sexually explicit content. However, a recent investigation revealed that their Opus 4.6 model easily bypasses these restrictions to engage in explicit roleplay scenarios. In tests conducted by TechCrunch, Opus 4.6 complied with requests for sexual content all ten times it was […]