Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.
I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk’s children, was… what’s the best way to […]
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.
It turns out Fox McCloud’s appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just surprise announced the first new Star Fox game in two decades. The game is called, simply, Star Fox, and it’s out very soon, launching on June 25th. Nintendo says that it’s “based” on the […]
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
xAI’s real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired’s Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: “Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology […]
Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.
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