12+ min ago   (446+ words) Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you," CEO Elon Musk proclaimed yesterday following a restructuring that saw a stream of former executives exit the AI lab. This is an interesting recruitment strategy after…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (551+ words) Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. "We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distributing products into dozens of countries around the world," Spencer (pictured…...

3+ hour, 21+ min ago   (545+ words) At the heart of the dispute, Mullenweg believes WP Engine is profiting from the open source WordPress project without contributing back to the community, and demanded the hosting company pay 8% of its monthly gross revenues as a royalty fee for…...

3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (529+ words) Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company "have not written a single line of…...

3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (280+ words) While the artificial intelligence industry touts that AI will replace entry-level jobs, not every company is scaling back hiring these positions. In IBM's case, it's going all in. Hardware giant IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago   (304+ words) Lucas is a senior writer at TechCrunch, where he covers artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and startups. He previously covered AI and cybersecurity at Gizmodo. You can contact Lucas by emailing [email protected]. Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new…...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (314+ words) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has raised concerns over allegations that Apple is censoring conservative content on the Apple News app. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited reports from Media Research Center, a…...

9+ hour, 23+ min ago   (297+ words) The partnership between Cerebras and OpenAI was announced last month, when OpenAI said that it had reached a multi-year agreement with the firm worth over $10 billion. "Integrating Cerebras into our mix of compute solutions is all about making our AI…...

22+ hour, 54+ min ago   (500+ words) On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing a full 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of the Tuesday night meeting were previously reported by The New York Times, which may have influenced xAI's…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (170+ words) Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?" On this episode of TechCrunch's"Equity"podcast, Rebecca…...