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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 underneath other AI […]

In a sense, this whole thing was inevitable. Elon Musk and his coterie have been talking about AI in space for years—mainly in the context of Iain Banks’ science fiction series about a far-future universe where sentient spaceships roam and control the galaxy.  Now, Musk sees an opportunity to realize a version of this vision.

Threadsis introducing an AI-powered feature that lets users personalize their feed, the Meta-owned social network announced on Wednesday. The platform’s new “Dear Algo” feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed. To use the feature, users need to type “Dear Algo” in a public Threads

For 24 years, Microsoft’s Amanda Silver has been working to help developers — and in the last few years, that’s meant building tools for AI. After a long stretch on GitHub Copilot, Silver is now a corporate vice president at Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying apps and agentic systems within

At least nine engineers, includingtwo co-founders, have now publicly announced their departure from xAI in the past week – though two of those exits appear to have occurred a few weeks ago.  Neither xAI nor Elon Musk have publicly commented on the departures.  While attrition is typical at startups, co-founder departures are far less so.

When Sam Blond left his job as a VC for Founders Fund a year ago — just 18 months after he started — hetold the worldthat being a VC wasn’t for him and he was “going back to operating.”   On Wednesday, he officially brought his new startup,Monaco, out of stealth. It was co-founded with

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The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn’t over yet. A new company calledMeridianhas emerged from stealth with a more comprehensive IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling — and plenty of funding to build it. On Wednesday, the company announced $17 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. “Our goal is to

On Tuesday night, Elon Musk gathered the employees of xAI for an all-hands meeting. Evidently, he wanted to talk about the future of his AI company, and specifically, how it relates to the moon. According to The New York Times, which reports that itheard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing

Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of sex discrimination, the Wall Street Journalhas reported. “The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,” Beiermeister told the Journal. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email