Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI's inference systems.

The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

Sandstone's Series A comes just six months after a Sequoia-led seed round.

Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.

OpenAI released a set of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Available from within the Codex app, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job.