4+ hour, 40+ min ago  (186+ words) OpenAI Kills Sora After 6 Months, Sparking Privacy Outcry OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora video tool amid data privacy concerns over facial uploads OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora video tool last week after just 6 months, per TechCrunch reporting Users had been…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago  (11+ words) Beijing's Meta-Manus Review Spooks VCs on Singapore Model'The Tech Buzz...

18+ hour, 10+ min ago  (280+ words) Eli Lilly Bets $2.75B on AI Drug Discovery in Insilico Deal Pharma giant commits $115M upfront in landmark AI-discovered drug partnership Eli Lilly commits $2.75 billion total to Insilico Medicine with $115 million paid upfront, according to CNBC Move positions Lilly to compete with…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (344+ words) Bluesky Launches Attie, AI-Powered Custom Feed Builder Bluesky's new Attie app uses AI to democratize feed customization on its atproto network Bluesky launched Attie, an AI-powered app that lets users build custom feeds through natural language prompts The tool leverages…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (425+ words) Stanford Study Exposes AI Chatbot Sycophancy Risk New research measures how AI assistants prioritize pleasing users over truth Stanford computer scientists published new research measuring the harm caused by AI sycophancy in chatbots according to TechCrunch The study focuses on…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (371+ words) Suno's v5.5 AI Music Model Adds Voice Cloning Features AI music platform Suno launches voice training, taste personalization tools Suno releases v5.5 with three new features: Voices (voice cloning), My Taste (style personalization), and Custom Models Users can now train AI on…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (451+ words) xAI Loses Another Co-Founder as Exodus Continues Nine of eleven original xAI co-founders have now departed Musk's AI startup Another xAI co-founder has departed, leaving just two of the original eleven founding team members at the company according to reports…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (361+ words) Claude Paid Subscriptions Double as Anthropic Gains Ground Anthropic's Claude sees paid subscriptions more than double in 2026, intensifying AI assistant race Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions more than doubled in 2026 Total Claude consumer users estimated between 18-30 million,…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (379+ words) OpenAI Scraps Sora, Raises $10B in Profitability Push OpenAI kills video app Sora, ends $1B Disney deal, raises $10B more in major pivot OpenAI is shutting down Sora and removing video generation from ChatGPT after the feature failed to justify its massive compute…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (198+ words) Whoop Pivots From Elite Athletes to Mass Market Health wearable maker Whoop targets everyday consumers after 14 years with pros Whoop founder Will Ahmed is pushing the company beyond its elite athlete base to target mass-market consumers, competing directly with Oura…...