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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.

arstechnica.com
Jan 30
AIBiz & ITagentic AI
Last 24 hours to grab your +1 pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last 24 hours to grab your +1 pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Today is the last day to lock in a +1 pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, happening on October 13-15 in San Francisco. Register here.

techcrunch.com
Jan 30
TCStartupsTransportation
Google pitches Gemini to students studying for India's most competitive college entrance exam

Google pitches Gemini to students studying for India's most competitive college entrance exam

Google's launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini.

techcrunch.com
Jan 28
AIai modegemini
Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)

Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)

Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon.

techcrunch.com
Jan 28
AIagentic aiclawdbot
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’

“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.

techcrunch.com
Jan 27
AIAppsExclusive
OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.

arstechnica.com
Jan 26
AIBiz & ITagentic AI
Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech

Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech

Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup's India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.

techcrunch.com
Jan 24
AITC
Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's ‘world model’ startup

Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's ‘world model’ startup

Yann LeCun's new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it.

techcrunch.com
Jan 24
AIYann LeCunworld models
Former Sequoia partner’s new startup uses AI to negotiate your calendar for you

Former Sequoia partner’s new startup uses AI to negotiate your calendar for you

Blockit, an AI agent that communicates directly with other calendars, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Sequoia.

techcrunch.com
Jan 23
AIStartupsVenture
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"

The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.

arstechnica.com
Jan 22
AIBiz & ITSecurity
eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

New policy requires "buy for me" AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform.

arstechnica.com
Jan 22
AIBiz & ITagentic AI
Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.

techcrunch.com
Jan 21
AIAppsAdobe
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.

arstechnica.com
Jan 21
AIBiz & ITAI detection
Here are the 55 US AI startups that raised $100M or more in 2025

Here are the 55 US AI startups that raised $100M or more in 2025

Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?

techcrunch.com
Jan 19
AIEnterpriseFundraising
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.

arstechnica.com
Jan 19
AIBiz & ITFeatures
Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune

Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune

Musk's legal team argues he should be compensated as an early startup investor who sees returns "many orders of magnitude greater" than his initial investment.

techcrunch.com
Jan 17
AITC
AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post

AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post

Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.

techcrunch.com
Jan 16
AIStartupsAI data center
The AI healthcare gold rush is here

The AI healthcare gold rush is here

AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast. In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for healthcare, and Sam Altman-backed MergeLabs closed a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health and voice AI, but so are concerns about hallucination risks, inaccurate medical information, and […]

techcrunch.com
Jan 16
AIStartupsacquihire
Mira Murati's startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

Mira Murati's startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.

techcrunch.com
Jan 15
AIartificial intelligenceBarret Zoph
A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

arstechnica.com
Jan 14
AIBiz & ITSecurity
Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.

arstechnica.com
Jan 14
AIBiz & ITAI music
VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build a voice agent factory

VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build a voice agent factory

VoiceRun, a startup that creates voice agents, raised $5.5 million in a round led by FlyBridge.

techcrunch.com
Jan 14
AIStartupsventure
Apple launches ‘Creator Studio' bundle of apps for $12.99 per month

Apple launches ‘Creator Studio' bundle of apps for $12.99 per month

The bundle includes access to Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad, as well as Motion, Compressor, and MainStage on Mac.

techcrunch.com
Jan 13
AIApps
Apple chooses Google’s Gemini over OpenAI’s ChatGPT to power next-gen Siri

Apple chooses Google’s Gemini over OpenAI’s ChatGPT to power next-gen Siri

Apple goes with Google's tech despite using OpenAI's ChatGPT elsewhere in iOS.

arstechnica.com
Jan 12
AIAppleTech
ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

arstechnica.com
Jan 8
AIBiz & ITAI assistants
Subtle releases ear buds with its noise cancelation models

Subtle releases ear buds with its noise cancelation models

Subtle's new $199 earbuds will also let you dictate in any app on desktop or phone

techcrunch.com
Jan 4
AIGadgetsCES
Tech billionaires cashed out $16 billion in 2025 as stocks soared

Tech billionaires cashed out $16 billion in 2025 as stocks soared

Jeff Bezos led the way. The Amazon founder sold 25 million shares for $5.7 billion in June and July, right around the time he was getting hitched to Lauren Sanchez in Venice.

techcrunch.com
Jan 3
AI
India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content

India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content

India's IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.

techcrunch.com
Jan 2
AIGovernment & PolicySocial
OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

The form factors may differ, but the thesis is the same: audio is the interface of the future. Every space -- your home, your car, even your face -- is becoming an interface.

techcrunch.com
Jan 1
AIHardware
‘College dropout' has become the most coveted startup founder credential

‘College dropout' has become the most coveted startup founder credential

AI founders are increasingly using their "dropout" status as a credential during YC pitches.

techcrunch.com
Jan 1
AIStartupsVenture
Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026

Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026

The exact impact AI will have on the enterprise labor market is unclear but investors predict trends will start to emerge in 2026.

techcrunch.com
Dec 31, 2025
EnterpriseAILayoffs
Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.

arstechnica.com
Dec 31, 2025
AIAppleBiz & IT
Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groq's tech and hire its CEO

Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groq's tech and hire its CEO

With Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing.

techcrunch.com
Dec 24, 2025
AIAI chipsgroq
Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout

Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout

Waymo suspended its SF robotaxi service on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared to leave many of its vehicles stalled on city streets.

techcrunch.com
Dec 22, 2025
AITransportationWaymo
LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

LG says it'll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren't going away.

arstechnica.com
Dec 19, 2025
AITechchatbots
We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive

We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive

How do four modern LLMs do at recreating a simple Windows gaming classic?

arstechnica.com
Dec 19, 2025
AIGamingagent
YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

Google loves AI content, except when it doesn't.

arstechnica.com
Dec 18, 2025
AIGoogleTech
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy

New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.

arstechnica.com
Dec 17, 2025
AIBiz & ITAI image generator
Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

arstechnica.com
Dec 17, 2025
AIBiz & ITSecurity
VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power

VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power

The next consumer tech revolution may require an introduction of a new personal device.

techcrunch.com
Dec 16, 2025
StartupsAIGadgets
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.

arstechnica.com
Dec 15, 2025
AIBiz & ITAI criticism
OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent.

arstechnica.com
Dec 12, 2025
AIBiz & ITagentic AI
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.

arstechnica.com
Dec 11, 2025
AIBiz & ITagentic AI
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.

arstechnica.com
Dec 11, 2025
AIBiz & ITAI law
Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage

Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage

Port offers a proprietary alternative to Spotify's popular devtool catalog Backstage, but with a valuable addition: it can be used to manage AI agents, too.

techcrunch.com
Dec 11, 2025
StartupsAIdeveloper tools
CoreWeave CEO defends AI circular deals as ‘working together'

CoreWeave CEO defends AI circular deals as ‘working together'

The CEO of the AI data center provider, which has Nvidia as an investor and a supplier, described the environment as a "violent change" in demand.

techcrunch.com
Dec 10, 2025
AIartificial intelligencecloud
Google details security measures for Chrome's agentic features

Google details security measures for Chrome's agentic features

Google details how it is enacting security guardrails before rolling out agentic capabilities on Chrome.

techcrunch.com
Dec 8, 2025
AIAppsGoogle
AWS re:Invent was an all-in pitch for AI. Customers might not be ready.

AWS re:Invent was an all-in pitch for AI. Customers might not be ready.

AWS is releasing a lot of new AI tech, but the cloud infrastructure giant's enterprise customers may not be ready for it yet.

techcrunch.com
Dec 5, 2025
AIEnterpriseHardware
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity

Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity

The newspaper is alleging copyright infringement and calling out Perplexity's Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a culprit.

techcrunch.com
Dec 5, 2025
AITClawsuits
In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?

arstechnica.com
Dec 4, 2025
AIBiz & ITcontractors