When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with better technology.
The problem, he quickly learned, ran deeper than technology. Human reviewers were expected to memorize a 40-page policy document…
OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN – Technology Business Programming Network – making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company. The show will report to OpenAI’s chief political operative, Chris Lehane.
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OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year.
The round will add to OpenAI’s war chest as it spends enormous amounts of money on AI chips…
Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel investors is not enough.
Less than a year after launching, Yupp is closing its business, co-founders Pankaj Gupta and Gilad Mishne announced on Tuesday.
Yupp offered a crowdsourced AI model-picking service. It allowed consumers to test and compare results from a supply of 800 AI models for free…
Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota
April 2, 2026
Data centers have gotten so large that their power demands now rival entire U.S. states. Take Meta’s Hyperion AI data center, for example. When completed, the new AI data center will draw as much electricity as South Dakota.
Last week, Meta announced it would fund…
To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model.
Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous construction equipment collect thousands, if not millions, of hours of video data for…
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
April 1, 2026
Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them.
The AI video-generation startup has launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation, the company’s founders told TechCrunch. It’s also rolling out a Builders program offering seed to Series C startups free API credits…
With now more than 100 million cameras in the field, Amazon-owned Ring is ready to take advantage of its sizable footprint with the launch of a new app store that will expand its cameras’ capabilities. Focused initially on areas like elder care, workforce analytics…
Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.
The latest funding infusion, which comes before a planned IPO later this year, was led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and the…
As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a startup building AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, is betting that verification will define the next phase of software development.
The New York-headquartered startup has raised a $70 million Series B round led by Qumra Capital…
