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Starting Friday, OpenAI willcease providing accessto five legacy ChatGPT models, including the popular but controversial GPT-4o model. The 4o model has been at the center of a number oflawsuitsconcerning user self-harm, delusional behavior, and AIpsychosis. It remains OpenAI’shighest scoring model for sycophancy. In addition to GPT-4o, the GPT-5, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini models […]

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten

Anthropic’sSuper Bowl ads— which feature darkly comedic scenarios of people seeking advice from chatbots, only to be steered to “cougar” dating sites and height-boosting insoles — have been paying off. In the days since, Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude has climbed from No. 41 on the U.S. App Store to become a top 10 app. As

As the top AI labs likeGoogle,Anthropic, andOpenAIchase enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has been quietly cleaning up. The startup told investors in a memo that it surpassed its $200 million annual recurring revenue target in 2025, hitting $240 million with quarter-over-quarter growth of more than 50% throughout the year,per CNBC. Cohere was founded in

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report fromThe New York Times.The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them through Meta’s AI assistant. Meta’s plans could change, the report notes. The

After a particularlypoor performanceon its fourth-quarter earnings, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready attempted to favorably compare the digital pinboarding site to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Trying to highlight its potential as a unique search destination, Ready asserted that the site sees larger search volume than ChatGPT. According to third-party data, ChatGPT sees 75 billion searches

While the artificial intelligence industry touts that AI will replace entry-level jobs, not every company is scaling back hiring these positions. In IBM’s case, it’s going all in. Hardware giant IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according toreporting from Bloomberg. Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM’s chief human resource officer, announced the initiative

“Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you,” CEO Elon Muskproclaimedyesterday following a restructuring that saw a stream of former executivesexit the AI lab. This is an interesting recruitment strategy after the company’s merger with Musk’s rocket maker, SpaceX, and the combined company’s anticipated IPO. You might think that

Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while runningMarkai, an e-commerce startupin Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distributing products into dozens of countries around the world,” Spencer (pictured left) told TechCrunch. His staff was overwhelmed by the manual complexity of sourcing suppliers, negotiating pricing, tracking

Anthropic has just concluded a $30 billion Series G fundraising round, the companyannounced on Thursday. The company’s new value is $380 billion — a huge jump from its previous Series F valuation of$183 billion. Some details of the round werereported earlier this week by Bloomberg. The new round was led by Singaporean wealth fundGICand investment