Week in Review: Why Anthropic cut access to Windsurf

Welcome back to Week in Review! Got lots for you today, including why Windsurf lost access to Claude, ChatGPT’s new features, WWDC 2025, Elon Musk’s fight with Donald Trump, and lots more. Have a great weekend! Duh: During an interview at TC Sessions: AI 2025, Anthropic’s co-foun

Superblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts

Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe-coding startup Superblocks, believes the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas is hiding in almost plain sight: the system prompts used by existing unicorn AI startups. System prompts are the lengthy prompts — over 5,000 to 6,000 words — that AI startup

Omada Health IPO signals healthier market, avoids ‘down-round’ trend

The IPO market is starting to feel healthier. Omada Health, a 14-year-old company providing virtual care for chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension between office visits, closed its first trading day on Friday at $23 a share, a 21% jump from the IPO price of $19. The IP

2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta's augmented and virtual reality, says CTO

Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, who was one of the company's first 15 engineers, published a memo earlier this year forecasting that 2025 could be the year of greatness for Reality Labs, the company’s augmented and virtual reality unit. Or, it would be the year when the metaverse goes

Why investing in growth-stage AI startups is getting riskier and more complicated

Making a bet on AI startups has never been so exciting — or more risky. Incumbents like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are scaling their capabilities fast to swallow many of the offerings of smaller companies. At the same time, new startups are reaching the growth stage much faster than they h

Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust

A day after announcing new AI models designed for U.S. national security applications, Anthropic has appointed a national security expert, Richard Fontaine, to its long-term benefit trust. Anthropic’s long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote sa

Tesla’s Optimus robot VP is leaving the company

The head of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company. Kovac said Friday in a post on X that he “had to make the most difficult decision” of his life to leave. “I’ve been far away from home for too long, and will need to spend more ti

Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist

An Italian parliamentary committee confirmed that the Italian government used spyware made by the Israeli company Paragon to hack several activists working to save immigrants at sea. The committee, however, said its investigation concluded that a prominent Italian journalist was not among the victi

The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts

The feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump may be bad for the MAGA camp, but it’s proven to be beneficial for X, which has seen engagement soaring over the past 24 hours. According to new data from Sensor Tower, the app formerly known as Twitter skyrocketed up the U.S. App Store

Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference

Brett Adcock, co-founder and CEO of the humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, made a rare public appearance at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday. Figure has recently been the subject of a couple news articles that questioned its progress with marquee customer BMW. Figure objected so strenuou

Jony Ive's LoveFrom helped design Rivian's first electric bike

LoveFrom, the creative firm founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, played a role in the development of Rivian's first electric bike, according to multiple sources who spoke to TechCrunch.  For about 18 months, a handful of LoveFrom staff worked alongside Rivian's design team and

EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text

EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it claims is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models. The dataset, called the Common Pile v0.1, took around two years to complete in collaboration with AI startups Poolside, Hugging Face, and

X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner

X, formerly Twitter, announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform's official prediction market partner. Launched in 2020, Polymarket allows users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events using cryptocurrency. Although the companies didn't announce sp

Startups Weekly: It's buying season

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can't miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. From acquiring stealth startups to larger ones, and from funding Series A to Series G rounds, buyers and investors made for a busy news cy