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Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them

Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

Vietnamese users spend $1.7 million on Claude and $7.1 million on ChatGPT

Vietnamese users spent $1.71 million on Claude in the first half of the year, lifting Anthropic's app from ninth to second in mobile revenue, behind ChatGPT.

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues

In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized" its "infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work."

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware…

Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last…

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors…