Tech & AI

Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it.

Activists, a leading labor union, and a big retirement fund are asking challenging questions about what’s expected to be the largest-ever stock market debut.

There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. AC

Financial Times : Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom’s pick-and-shovel stocks — Investors hunt for win

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth and early-stage startups.

UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.

Vapi says its enterprise business has grown tenfold since early 2025 as companies shift customer support and sales calls to AI agents.

The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million an

Kate Park / TechCrunch : Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a $27M seed at a $200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment — Asia’s push into physical A

AI that can see and understand what’s happening in a video — especially a live feed — is understandably an attractive product to lots of enterprises and organizations. Beyond acting as a security “wat