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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

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week duringits fourth-quarter earnings callthat the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.” That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström, came alongside other comments about how the

On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of a light-weight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, the latest model of whichOpenAI launchedearlier this month. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is described by the company as a “smaller version” of that model, one that is designed for faster inference. To power that inference, OpenAI has brought in a dedicated chip

On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing a full 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of the Tuesday night meeting werepreviously reported by The New York Times, which may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online. The full video reveals significant new details about Musk’s plans

Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is in the process of raising a new round at a valuation of about $2.5 billion, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Should the deal close at these terms, the funding round would more than double the company’s valuation of$1.1 billionannounced less than

OpenAI has disbanded a team that focused on — as the company itselfdescribed— ensuring that its AI systems are “safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values.” At the same time, the team’s former leader has been given a new role as the company’s “chief futurist.” OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch that the team’s members have

Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it firstunveiledApple Intelligence in 2024. Over about a year and a half since then, the release date for this new era of Siri has been continuously pushed back. According to a newreportfrom Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, we’ll likely have to wait even longer. While the new

Uber Eatsannounceda new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier. The beta version is now available in the app.​ To use the new chatbot, users search for a grocery store in the Uber Eats app and tap the purple Cart Assistant icon on the store’s page to

Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?  Glean, which started as an enterprise search product, has evolved into what it calls an “AI work assistant,” aiming to sit beneath other AI