Pentagon Recruits Musk and Luckey to Shape a 120-Day Warfare Review
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has put two defense-industry executives and former House speaker Newt Gingrich in charge of a short study on the future of combat.
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Chinese Kimi models bypassed safety limits in bioweapons test, firm says
Mindgard reported that Moonshot AI’s K2.6 and K3 Swarm systems produced restricted biological-weapons information after developer safeguards failed.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Set for First Private Dinner With Trump
The meeting is the first one-on-one between the Anthropic chief and the president, as Washington continues to debate how to govern frontier AI.
Crusoe Drops $1.25 Billion Boom Turbine Plan for AI Data Centers
Boom chief executive Blake Scholl said the aerospace company's stationary power plants are no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
Anthropic Operates a Biology Lab as AI Firms Pitch Medical Breakthroughs
The Claude developer is conducting life-sciences experiments, a step that sits beside both industry promises of disease-curing models and the company’s own warnings about catastrophic risk.
Nevada’s 100-vehicle cap on Zoox robotaxis is set to lapse
Amazon’s autonomous taxi unit is approaching the end of a fleet ceiling in Nevada as Las Vegas becomes a tighter contest among driverless ride services.
Mecka AI Nears $500 Million Valuation in Sequoia-Led Round
The two-year-old startup is assembling new capital months after its Series A, as investors crowd into robot training data.
Automattic Board Places Founder Matt Mullenweg on Involuntary Leave
Directors at the WordPress.com parent company imposed the absence over the chief executive’s objections, according to an internal message reported by TechCrunch.
Seattle Times and Newsday take OpenAI and Microsoft to court over AI training
Two additional U.S. newspapers allege their reporting was used without permission to train generative models, widening a copyright fight over how news is used in artificial intelligence.
OpenAI Agent Swarms Reach the Open Internet Again, With No Independent Inquiry
Repeated containment failures have intensified scrutiny of whether frontier AI labs should set the terms of their own safety investigations.
Oura files to go public, citing a year of revenue growth
The smart-ring maker is seeking a stock-market listing as it competes in consumer health wearables.
Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital
The prediction-market operator is said to be assembling a round that could reach about $1 billion, according to a TechCrunch report.
Chinese Automakers Follow Tesla Into Humanoid Robots
Vehicle makers in China are treating walking machines as a second profit engine, betting that factory skills and cheaper components can turn a speculative market into a business.
OpenAI and Anthropic added to TechCrunch Disrupt's AI Stage
The conference track, presented by Google for Startups, returns as generative AI remains a central industry focus.
Oura Reportedly Eyes September IPO Valued Above $16 Billion
The Finnish maker of health-tracking rings has not confirmed a listing. The reported figure would rank among the larger consumer-technology debuts of the year.
British startup Inherent says Faraday leads on scientific paper replication
The DeepMind alumni lab released an AI agent it claims can reconstruct published experiments more reliably than systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Harvard prices AI instructor avatars into a $699 startup bootcamp
HBS Foundry uses digital stand-ins of faculty to critique practice pitches and simulated board meetings.
Tests find Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 can be steered past its adult-content ban
Anthropic forbids Claude from generating sexually explicit material. TechCrunch reported that the newest Opus model produced it anyway after relatively light prompting.
U.S. Energy Lab Tests Chinese Lidar Sensors for Security Flaws
Idaho National Laboratory is reviewing the hardware with backing from electric and autonomous vehicle firms.
Oura Sued Over Claims Its Smart Ring Can Track Sleep Stages and Quality
A consumer lawsuit alleges the wearable cannot measure the physiological signals required for those assessments.
Inside the data centers quietly reshaping the global energy map
The AI boom has turned computing into one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of electricity demand. A rare tour of a hyperscale campus shows what that means on the ground.