Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm. UP.Labs, as it was called then, built startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers such as Alaska ...

Anthropic has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it can use its AI models to run physical experiments, it has confirmed to TechCrunch. AI leaders have been promising that AI is the ...

Military aircraft were already in the air this spring when U.S. officials made an alarming discovery: The intelligence driving an armed operation against a Chinese vessel had been hallucinated by an AI chatbot. The operation ...

Image Credits:Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg / Getty Images 2:44 PM PDT · September 18, 2026 Dario Amodei’s plans to put third-party safety evaluators inside AI labs are taking shape: Anthropic said that staff from technology consulting giant ...

In Brief Posted: 1:25 PM PDT · September 18, 2026 Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Automattic has a new interim chief financial officer: Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company’s WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit. ...

In Brief Posted: 1:24 PM PDT · September 18, 2026 Image Credits:TravelCouples / Getty Images These days, it’s rare to hear of a startup founded in 2019, or one not focused on AI agents, raising ...

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance to dig into one of the most mysterious corners of ...

ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the model-training technique perhaps most responsible for our current age of ...

In Brief Posted: 10:59 AM PDT · September 18, 2026 Image Credits:Yujie Chen / Getty Images Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and in a curious twist, the new executive hails from an ...