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AMD Buys Taalas, The Startup That Carves AI Models Into Silicon
The AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc) logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on August 7, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Serving an AI model today means hauling its entire set of…
OpenAI Bought A Presentation Startup. What Does It Mean For Your Job?
When AI slide decks become a commodity, the skills that matter most are communication, negotiation, and critical thinking NextSlide co-founder Ahmed Beshry announced yesterday that OpenAI acquired his startup. The startup is known for converting…
Canada's unicorn moment: AI investment boom helps propel billion-dollar startups
A surge in artificial intelligence investment is reshaping the global startup landscape, creating billion-dollar companies at a pace never before seen. According to new data compiled by BestBrokers using Crunchbase and PitchBook information, global…
Why billion-dollar robotics startups are obsessed with folding laundry
Before Silicon Valley's robots take over, they have to learn to fold your underwear. In recent months, some of the buzziest robotics startups — including Figure AI, Sunday Robotics, and Weave Robotics — have shown off robots that…
How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta
Over a two-week stretch, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all revealed that their AI models went rogue during routine security testing. The companies each cited a small Israeli startup: Irregular. Irregular 'will issue a full retrospective once we have…
APEC host city Shenzhen offers glimpse of China's future industries
This photo taken on June 25, 2026 shows the robot block in Longgang District of Shenzhen City, south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Liang Xu) Drones zip across city blocks, delivering meals to doorsteps. On factory floors, humanoid robots are…
CNBC Daily Open: Washington and Tehran both play it cool - but markets can't
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is not in direct negotiations with Washington, while Trump said that Washington is 'low keying it' in negotiations with Iran. Netanyahu rejected Trump's latest Gaza plan in remarks to his…
TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber's AV empire
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! In just a few days…
The world's leading AI companies are all struggling to contain their latest models
The most powerful AI models keep going awry, according to the companies building them. The disclosures come as frontier AI models get more powerful and more capable of acting autonomously. They also highlight a growing challenge for the companies…
Start A Business? There's An AI Agent For That! Y Combinator Head Explains How
New ventures that go totally in on artificial intelligence could potentially see growth and profitability within eight months, says the leader of one of Silicon Valley's most storied startup incubators. They are “breaking the old math' when…
Can a Startup Audio Transcription API Prove EU Processing, GDPR Controls, and SOC 2 Scope?
For a compliant speech-to-text API in a GDPR-sensitive startup app, the deciding question is whether the provider makes an explicit, reviewable promise about EU data residency and what happens to customer audio afterward. Short answer: for…
The job market isn't getting easier. Americans are reinventing themselves instead.
Douglas Craig's heart was racing, and his adrenaline was pumping. Just a few weeks after finishing his training, Craig and his colleague had to belay a family down an outdoor ropes course during an unexpected lightning storm. Craig's summer is…
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Announces ₹10,000 Monthly Pension For Those Jailed During Emergency
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced a monthly pension of ₹10,000 for 325 individuals who were imprisoned for taking part in protests against the Emergency. Speaking at a programme held at the state…
Sovereign AI: Why Canada's next technology challenge is infrastructure
Much of the public conversation around AI still focuses on models, chatbots, funding rounds, and headline-grabbing breakthroughs. Yet the next phase of AI competition may depend on less visible assets: power generation, GPU capacity, networking…
This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world's top AI hubs
What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King's Cross? The area is so hot that a VC firm allegedly recently won a deal by promising a founder office space in the neighborhood. “We stop at nothing…
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