Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A
AI-powered accounting startup Campfire announced Monday that it has raised a $35 million Series A led by Accel, with participation from Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49, and angel investors including Mercury’s CFO Dan Kang.
“Within nine months of formation, we had customers [wit
Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents
The company behind Cursor, the viral AI coding editor, launched a web app on Monday that allows users to manage a network of coding agents directly from their browser.
The launch marks Cursor’s next big step beyond its integrated development environment (IDE), the core product developers use
Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Fusion power got another boost on Monday as Google announced it will buy half the output of Commonwealth Fusion System's first commercial power plant.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) will send Google 200 megawatts of electricity from its Arc power plant, which is expected to come online in t
Why AI will eat McKinsey’s lunch — but not today
Navin Chaddha, managing director of the 55-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield, is betting big on AI’s ability to transform people-heavy industries like consulting, law, and accounting. The veteran investor, whose wins include Lyft, Poshmark, and HashiCorp, recently discussed at Tec
With ‘F1’, Apple finally has a theatrical hit
Looks like Apple has its first bona fide box office hit.
The company has already produced critically-acclaimed and award-winning films for Apple TV+. In fact, while Netflix has reportedly spent millions on its Oscar campaigns, Apple's “Coda” remains the only movie produced by a streaming s
Week in Review: Meta’s AI recruiting blitz
Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week — Travis Kalanick is possibly returning to the world of self-driving vehicles, CoreWeave’s CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren’t happy with how the company is promoting its new “F1” movie, and much m
Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman's World project
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman's World project has real privacy risks.
Previously known as Worldcoin, World was created under Altman and Alex Blania's Tools for Humanity. The organization says it can help
Anthropic's Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
For those of you wondering if AI agents can truly replace human workers, do yourself a favor and read the blog post that documents Anthropic's “Project Vend.”
Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs put an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 in charge of an office vending machi
FBI, cybersecurity firms say a prolific hacking crew is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector
The FBI and cybersecurity firms are warning that the prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector.
In a brief statement on Friday shared with TechCrunch, the FBI said it had “recently observed” cyberattacks resembling Scattere
As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout
Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI's potential to boost GDP. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally in the face of what
YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS
Google is preparing to bring YouTube Create to iOS devices nearly two years after the video editing app launched exclusively on Android. Job listings reviewed by TechCrunch reveal the company is actively hiring engineers in India for the iOS development project.
The job postings show Google is rec
Prolific cybercrime gang now targeting airlines and the transportation sector
Cybersecurity firms are warning that the prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector.
Executives from Google’s cybersecurity unit Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks’ security research division Unit 42 say they have observed cybe
Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’
Meta is definitely offering hefty multi-million-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new Superintelligence Lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting.
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Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’
Meta is definitely offering hefty multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new superintelligence lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting.
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