Last week, a $200 million contract between Anthropic and the Department of Defense collapsed. The two parties failed to agree on the degree of unrestricted access the military would have to Anthropic’s AI systems. When the DoD subsequently struck a…
Meta is facing a new lawsuit in the United States over privacy concerns related to its AI smart glasses. The lawsuit follows an investigation by Swedish newspapers which found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor were reviewing footage from customers’…
The rise of agentic coding has made the working life of a software engineer dazzlingly complex. A single engineer might now oversee dozens of coding agents at once, launching and guiding different processes as necessary. It is a lot to…
The EV transition might have hit a hurdle in the U.S., but it is not slowing down in East Africa. Several startups are vying for a piece of the burgeoning electric motorbike market there. Zeno is one of those companies,…
Match Group, the parent company of Tinder, announced on Thursday it will eliminate the position of Chief Operating Officer. This decision ends Hesam Hosseini’s 18-year tenure with the dating app company. Hosseini had been promoted to the COO role on…
Meta announced on Thursday that it will allow AI companies to offer their chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe for the next twelve months. This decision is a direct response to pressure from the European Commission, which last month informed Meta…
Lio’s co-founders understand from personal experience that procurement, the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors, is often a bottleneck. Vladimir Keil, the company’s co-founder and CEO, encountered this problem first as an employee at a large company and…
Rivian is planning one of the fastest launches of a new all-electric car in the U.S. with its forthcoming R2 SUV. If successful, this would prove a strong start for a product that founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has called…
David Park is no stranger to the startup world. As a veteran founder and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus, he is well-tested in the enterprise arena. On the Build Mode podcast, Park joined Isabelle Johannessen to discuss how he and his…
While most of the venture world has been chasing AI deals, Max Hodak, the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, has been working on a startup that claims to be on the verge of being the first brain-computer interface company…
