Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips
The investment comes from backers including the Qatar Investment Authority as demand for chips beyond Nvidia soars and as Qatar aims to build out its AI infrastructure.
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Elon Musk’s Grok Continues To Generate Sexualized Images Even When Told Subjects Didn’t Consent: Report
Nine Reuters reporters gave it a series of prompts to determine whether and under what circumstances the chatbot would ...
Factbox-Elon Musk's Grok faces global scrutiny for sexualised AI deepfakes
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Governments and regulators are cracking down on sexually explicit content generated by Elon Musk's xAI ...
SpaceX is acquiring xAI ahead of a possible IPO. Read Elon Musk's memo.
Elon Musk's mega-deal combining SpaceX and xAI is the latest sign that the billionaire is consolidating his business empire ...
Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $800 Billion After SpaceX Acquired xAI
Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $800 billion or more after his rocket maker SpaceX acquired his artificial ...
French offices of Elon Musk’s X platform raided by Paris cybercrime unit
A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation ...
Elon Musk summoned to Paris after cybercrime unit raids X office
The raid is linked to a year-long investigation into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X or its ...
Donald Trump reacts to Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick being in Epstein files
Trump dismisses questions about the Epstein files naming Lutnick and Musk, telling CNN it’s time for the country to move on.
Paris prosecutors summon Elon Musk to appear after raid on X's French offices
Prosecutors in Paris said they asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning after searching X's offices in as part of a probe ...
Ex-FBI agent urged criminal probe of Elon Musk’s X use, likened it to Clinton email scandal
EXCLUSIVE: An ex-FBI agent sought to open an investigation into Elon Musk’s use of X while leading the Department of ...
Epstein-linked longevity guru Peter Attia leaves David Protein, and his own startup ‘won’t comment’
Attia co-founded longevity medical testing startup Biograph, which came out of stealth a year ago.
India’s Varaha bags $20M to scale carbon removal from the Global South
Varaha's fresh funding is part of a $45 million Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.
Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a host of powerful large language models and specialized multimodal models that approach, and in some cases, surpass the performance of the proprietary U.S. leaders such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI.Now the Qwen team is back again this week with a compelling release that matches the "vibe coding" frenzy that has a
The Minneapolis tech community holds strong during ‘tense and difficult time’
Founders and investors in the Minneapolis tech industry told TechCrunch they've put much of their work on hold to help out their community.
Intel will start making GPUs, a market dominated by Nvidia
Intel has been bulking up a team to focus on this effort and will develop its GPU strategy around customer needs.
Apple integrates Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex into Xcode 26.3 in push for ‘agentic coding’
Apple on Tuesday announced a major update to its flagship developer tool that gives artificial intelligence agents unprecedented control over the app-building process, a move that signals the iPhone maker's aggressive push into an emerging and controversial practice known as "agentic coding."Xcode 26.3, available immediately as a release candidate, integrates Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex directly into Apple's development environment, allowing the AI s
YC startups can now receive investment in stablecoin
All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins.
Trump’s Project Vault Gives US Critical Mineral Startups a Boost
Yesterday, Trump announced a $12B critical minerals stockpile program (“Project Vault”) to procure and store critical minerals in the U.S.SOSV General Partner Duncan Turner told Bloomberg that the move signals a meaningful push to build a domestic critical-minerals supply chain – opening the door for next-gen mining, processing, and refining technologies in a sector where the U.S. remains heavily dependent on China. Additionally, a federal stockpile could help stabilize the pri
2026 plans: What’s next for Startup Battlefield 200
See what to expect for Startup Battlefield 200 in 2026, the ultimate startup pitch competition on the global stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Join the mailing list to be the first to know when applications drop.
Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.