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Anthropic announced on Sunday that it is creating a "public benefit fund" to give the company "increased flexibility and scale" to support projects for societal good. The fund is a wholly owned entity within the company and will receive 5% of Anthropic's shares, with the option to add a further 2% for every 50% increase in the company's v…
Bloomberg reports, as relayed by TechCrunch, that Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are close to announcing a second $45 billion compute deal, a little over a month after their first deal of the same size. Sources cautioned that talks are ongoing and the details could change. If completed, it would be the latest of many larg…
Elon Musk said he will give one of his SpaceX shares to "every kid in America" in 2027. At the current $146 share price, the gift would be worth more than $10 billion, roughly 1% of his reported $1 trillion net worth. The mechanism is unclear, though Musk said he wants to give the shares "directly to the public" and called this the "first…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Hugging Face chief policy officer Irene Solaiman said AI model evaluations remain an immature science with limited reproducibility and no meaningful way to compare tests against each other. She argued that open weights are central to reproducing results and that qualifications for effective third-party evaluators ne…
Microsoft announced new enterprise security features on 19 October 2026 to monitor and control AI agents, treating them as potential insider threats. The centerpiece is Guardian Agents, part of Project Perception, which Microsoft introduced in June as its answer to AI-driven hacking and vulnerability-scanning systems such as Anthropic's M…
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, disclosed on Saturday that attackers broke into an older system overnight and affected 1.4% of users of its online platform, OpenCode Console. Some of those users store API keys for AI services there. The company called it a "large-scale distillation attack", but skeptics say it was a straightforw…
This TechCrunch Equity interview features Amulya Vishwanath, founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI. She is a former Nvidia product marketer. She argues that robotics has not yet had its "ChatGPT moment" and is in a "LEGO era", in which foundational software and hardware building blocks such as…
Walmart announced an Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents search its inventory and make purchases for shoppers, covering Walmart and Sam's Club. The announcement came as Amazon began blocking AI agents from making purchases, and as various travel and booking sites lock agents out entirely. CEO John Furner presented th…
A leaked Anthropic S-1 filing, reported by The Wall Street Journal and summarized by TechCrunch, says the company is struggling to secure enough cloud capacity from AWS, Google and Microsoft, which increasingly see it as a competitor. Anthropic expects to spend more than $750 billion on cloud contracts, some still under negotiation. It is…
OpenAI announced on 2026-10-20 that it acquired Orchestra Bio, a four-year-old AI biotech software startup. Deal terms were not disclosed. Orchestra had reportedly raised about $20 million as of 2025 from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Atria and 8VC. Orchestra builds AI agents that help biotech companies manage drug discovery oper…
Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in its 2021 Series A, according to Bloomberg. Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO, is said to hold about 2%. Anthropic is widely expected to go public before the end of the year, with top-end estimates valuing it at up to $2…
This is a business and finance item with no cyber threat content. Blackstone executive Jas Khaira, who leads the firm's San Francisco AI hub Blackstone N1 (BXN1), said at TechCrunch Disrupt that concerns over AI infrastructure debt are overblown. Rising interest rates, wider credit spreads and the roughly $50 billion in CoreWeave debt hav…
A growing number of developers and consumers are using AI coding agents, chiefly Claude Code, to remove sponsored ads, tracking features and preinstalled bloatware from smart TVs. Two GitHub projects, dumbtv (Muzzammil Yasin Sabuwala) and cleanyourtv (Gathin T.), package this approach. Cleanyourtv reportedly spread to a few thousand users…
This is not a cybersecurity incident. It is an interview-based report from TechCrunch Disrupt with the five partners of venture firm Benchmark. The partners discuss the firm's $2 billion raise across two funds this summer, including a $1.25 billion growth fund. They say they will keep a pace of two or three new investments per partner per…
At its first Config conference in India, Figma announced 20 new model context protocol (MCP) partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode and Sarvam Agents. Co-founder Dylan Field said MCP is "not a perfect protocol" and favors frontier labs. He also criticized Anthropic, MCP's cr…
Nvidia has released new open-weight AI models for always-on agents and edge computing. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120-billion-parameter model for enterprise agents. Nvidia says it matches the accuracy of the larger Nemotron 3 Ultra on instruction-following and tool-use tasks. Two lightweight Bolt models, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B and …
