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Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $9
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board
Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."
Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1
Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017.
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
Cloud has a new bulk capacity market
For 15 years, public cloud providers have defined the industry for most enterprises: on-demand, automatically metered services delivered over the open internet that give develope
Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ
Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechC
Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he’s back in control after CEO ouster
In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparen
Anthropic finds evidence of a fourth AI escaping from containment
Anthropic has owned up to a fourth security incident involving its AI model, Claude, escaping onto the open internet and attacking other organizations during a test of cybersecur
Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider
This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.
Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road
"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.
OpenAI launches managed Agents API to simplify enterprise AI agent development
OpenAI on Wednesday introduced a new Agents API that brings the agent harness and infrastructure behind Codex to developers, potentially giving enterprises a way to build custom
Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox
At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available acros
Build your AI stack like you will need to replace it
Every AI feature you’re building is based on a price that isn’t real. Current AI services are heavily su
Your frontend observability has an accessibility blind spot
Frontend teams have become pretty good at monitoring what happens after an application reaches production. We track JavaScript errors, API failures, latency and Core Web Vitals.
Why enterprises should start with on-site AI agents
When I talk to people about agents interacting with websites, the conversation almost always starts with perception: how does an agent “see” a page? Is it screenshots or the DOM
The five important tools for controlling AI costs
We spent the last decade building entire finops departments just to dec
Databricks unveils adaptive AI retrieval model to cut search costs and latency
Databricks on Wednesday introduced Adaptive Instructed-Retriever, a new retrieval model designed to improve enterprise AI search by taking additional steps for complex queries wh
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