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Apple's lawsuit couldn't come at a worse time for OpenAI
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/the-wildest-allegations-in-apples-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai/) last Friday, and it's not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misc
Inside Ode with Anthropic, the private equity-backed startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, He
Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face's Clem Delangue
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/) CEO Clem Delangue (https://www.linkedin.com/in/clementdelangue/). The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders ca
Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they're less skilled at understanding how things actually move thro
Best of Build Mode: Think like a VC
Instead of our usual news rundown, Equity is sending you off into the 4th of July weekend with a special episode of our sister podcast Build Mode. Season 3 launches July 9th, but before it does, Build Mode is revisiting some of the best fun
Humble Robotics’ CEO says the tech finally caught up to the vision for autonomous vehicles
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: the autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company (https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/travis-kalanick-laun
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip is Big Tech's spiciest move away from Nvidia yet
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom (https://techcrunch.com/2026/06
What if the AI giants are building the roads, not the destinations? Chi-Hua Chien thinks he knows who wins
In this episode, TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos talks with Goodwater Capital co-founder Chi-Hua Chien, whose career spans some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology shifts, from helping source Accel’s investment in Facebook as a
The US banned Anthropic's Fable 5 release, but the numbers don't seem to care
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models (https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai/
NEA's Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning
Tokenmaxxing (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/tokenmaxxing-is-making-developers-less-productive-than-they-think/) was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it wou
The SpaceX IPO has finally arrived
The biggest IPO in history (https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-live-updates-on-everything-you-need-to-know/) dropped this morning on the Nasdaq — a debut so big, our team thought it deserved its own bonus Equity podcast episode (h
It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe
The IPO market is back, and it's not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS (https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/its-not-faang-anymore-its-mangos/) — Meta (or Microsoft, depending
Andrew Yang on Noble Mobile, UBI, and why he's done waiting for policy to catch up
Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amo
The 'together tech' wave might be the most intriguing startup bet of 2026
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records (https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/03/alphabets-record-breaking-85b-raise-for-googles-ai-business-is-a-helluva-good-signal/), some founders are building in the other direction. Mi
Every defense startup wants to be the next Anduril. Here's what one of its earliest backers is looking for now.
Defense tech is red hot right now, with a proposed 40% increase (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/us/trump-news) to the federal defense budget, Anduril doubling its valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/anduril-raises-5b-doubl
Does your CEO have AI psychosis? Aaron Levie thinks most of them do.
The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of "AI psychosis (https://techcrunch.com/202
Your SEO strategy is optimized for a search engine that no longer exists.
Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10
Elon Musk can't hear you over the sound of his $1.75 trillion IPO
The SpaceX S-1 is finally here (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/the-spacex-ipo-filing-ai-bets-starship-dreams-elon-musk/), and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the nu
How Lucra raised $20M as an eSports play when every VC only wants AI
Slapping "AI" on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood's ARK Invest (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/cathie-woods-ark-makes-its-first-lead-investment-in-startup-l
Well, do you trust Sam Altman?
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/who-trusts-sam-altman/) All of this is playing out a
Amazon's Steve Schmidt on why your AI agents are your biggest security risk (Live at HumanX)
AI may be changing how companies build, but it's also changing how they get attacked, often by their own tools. Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenschmidt1) has watched threat actors at every ski
The 'people’s airline,' SpaceXAI, and the Enterprise AI Race
Everyone wants a piece of the enterprise AI pie, and this week, we saw a string of companies making their moves. From Anthropic and OpenAI announcing new joint ventures (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/anthropic-and-openai-are-both-launch
Aurora's Chris Urmson on why self-driving trucks are finally ready (Live at HumanX)
Self-driving has been "almost here" for over a decade. But somewhere between DARPA challenges and a handful of driverless trucks hauling freight between Dallas and Houston, Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson (https://www.linkedin.com/in
Did you know you can't steal a charity? Don't worry. Elon Musk will remind you.
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/elon-musk-testifies-that-xai-trained-grok-on-openai-models/) in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it's already getting messy. Emai
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway's CEO thinks world models are next
AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool in AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front-row seat to the shift. The New York-based company has raised close to $860 milli
Apple's new CEO, and why Elon Musk wants to buy Cursor for $60B
A new era is on the way for Apple as Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/who-is-john-ternus-the-incoming-apple-ceo/). Ternus may be i
Fusion doesn't have a normal startup timeline, and investors are fine with that
Fusion energy has been "20 years away" for decades, but has the science finally caught up? Private investment in fusion companies surged from $10 billion to $15 billion (https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/iea-features-fusion-in-state
Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI's shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/), and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are sta
The musician-turned-biotech-founder waiting to fundraise
When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aloeblacc/) got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can't just write a c
Luma AI's Amit Jain on why most world model companies are getting it completely wrong
LLMs may have kicked off this AI boom, but the ceiling is closer than the hype suggests. As models run out of text data to train on, the companies and investors paying attention are already moving on. The next wave isn't better chatbots; it
