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Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans

Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Nitter and XCancel are dead (again) after X’s latest legal actions

The privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts without an account have gone dark again after X's escalated legal action.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.

AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round

Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.

Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo

Essentially is a camera app, Superpose analyzes selfies or photos and generates four potential poses using AI.

Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women’s health research with vaginal microbiome data

Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management.

Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A lound led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.

New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave

Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.

Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear

Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-support tasks.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’

Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says

Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance

Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million.

With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again

Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day

macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps

macOS 27 Goldgen Gate gets a new Spotlight Search with Siri integrated

Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans

The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as spe…

Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg

Automattic’s board is out, days after its members voted to put chief executive Matt Mullenweg on leave, sources tell TechCrunch.

Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?

If you're building an AI company, the question isn't whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It's whether your company will continue creating value as they do. The greatest risk isn't build…

Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work

Fathom said that it has over 400,000 monthly active users