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…
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions.
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of…
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon.
“In the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the second…
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
July 8, 2026
Claude Cowork – Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work – is coming to your phone.
Claude Cowork launched as a desktop app in January, but starting Tuesday it is available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later – even if their laptop is…
Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
July 8, 2026
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new kind of security startup.
Savi Security seeks…
Forterra, a U.S. builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in…
Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being used to train AI unless you opt out.
The change came about via an under-the-radar…
Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday – the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears that AI will replace people at companies.
The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest, with Xbox losing 1,600 staffers…
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.
Launched in January of this year, F/ai’s…
Following the Trump directive that led Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline and growing calls for sovereign tech that reduces reliance on the U.S., Mistral AI has been caught in a whirlwind of attention. But the French AI darling is often misunderstood, and the fact that it develops large language models (LLMs) has muddied the picture.
Anyone who judges Mistral by how close it is to…
