Meta’s AI app has seen a sizable jump in installs following Wednesday’s launch of the company’s newest AI model, Muse Spark – its first model release under Alexandr Wang, the head of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs who was recruited from Scale AI last year to overhaul the social giant’s AI efforts.
According to new data from market intelligence provider…
Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world.
Instead of unleashing Mythos on the public, the frontier lab will share it with…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a Kendrick Lamar diss track, if the rapper was a corporate-speak-talking CEO and not a poetic Pulitzer-prize winning musician.
Meaning, you have to know the history to understand all of the…
Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah, it was a surprise,” he told TechCrunch.
Back in 2009, the tech Zaharia developed for his PhD at UC Berkeley, under the tutelage of famed professor Ion Stoica, was launched into Databricks.
Zaharia had created a way to dramatically speed…
Software giant Atlassian announced new AI tools and agents on Wednesday, with a focus on turning data into visual assets and applications.
This includes the rollout of the visual tool Remix in open beta. Remix allows enterprises to turn the data and information stored in…
Update (April 7, 10:30 p.m. PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app. But it also added that the iOS keyboard is coming soon.
Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge…
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Uber was expanding its contract for AWS cloud services to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. Uber will particularly expand its use of AWS’s Graviton (a low-power, ARM-based server CPU) and start a new trial testing Trainium3, AWS’s Nvidia competitor AI chip.
This deal is a bit less about a long-term threat to Nvidia than it…
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For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto…
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies.
The startup, based in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched…
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek
April 7, 2026
As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth and work could be reshaped in an “intelligence age.” The ideas blend traditionally left-leaning mechanisms like public wealth funds and expanded social safety nets with a fundamentally capitalist, market-driven economic…
