Anthropic has started localizing Claude’s pricing in India, its biggest market outside the U.S., as global AI companies increasingly tailor their offerings to win users in the world’s most populous nation.
Local pricing has begun to appear for some users in India on Claude’s website and mobile apps. However, Anthropic has yet to enable payments via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI)…
Waze, the Google-owned navigation app, is getting new AI-powered features and customization updates, including the ability to report road updates conversationally and get personalized navigation.
Some of the new features are powered by Google’s Gemini AI assistant, which…
More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families.
OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and…
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
July 13, 2026
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract.
The iPhone maker alleges that this misconduct, which it says reveals a pattern of theft from OpenAI employees who previously worked at Apple, was directed by OpenAI’s senior leadership, including Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for…
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
July 13, 2026
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. SK Hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant, said Friday it has raised $26.5 billion (KRW 40 trillion) in its U.S. market debut.
SK Hynix sold 177.9 million American depositary shares (ADRs) at $149 each…
At a time when AI backlash and data center protests are making headlines, Anthropic’s Claude is rolling out a new feature that subtly makes the case for why you should keep using it.
On Thursday, the company introduced “Reflect,” a built-in dashboard that lets you…
The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch.
This round follows a previous $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton. All told, the company has now raised $88 million.
Ollama, which launched in 2023, helps devs run open-weight AI models on their PCs, getting them up and running in…
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Indian IT services giant Infosys, will no longer serve as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm he co-founded nearly a decade ago.
Nilekani (pictured above) will be stepping down from his role as Fundamentum…
Being Good at Your Job Is No Longer Enough. Being Known for It Is the New Career Currency.
July 9, 2026
AI made publishing effortless – and credibility scarce. Here’s why thought leadership now decides who gets the client, the capital, and the call, and what it takes to build it without wrecking your reputation.
Somewhere this week, a contract, a funding round, or a…
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusable rockets to compete with SpaceX.
“It’s real simple for me,” Stoke CEO Andy Lapsa told TechCrunch of meeting Weil when he co-founded Stoke in 2020 and soon after joined Y Combinator’s winter batch. “I came out…
