bodyman_25 Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish … Read more
Google’s AI Mode is rolling out in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. Google’s AI Mode is rolling out in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.
AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC … Read more
Signal introduces backups with both free and paid plans. Signal introduces backups with both free and paid plans.
It’s not clear who cut the cables or why. It’s not clear who cut the cables or why.
Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. It is reportedly in the process of raising another round that would value it at $14 billion, up … Read more
This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea.
OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models’ behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company. OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models’ behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.
Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them. Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on … Read more
This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it. This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.
