How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months

The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders.They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them.

Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’

“We’re exploring a different set of tradeoffs.”

Have money, will travel: a16z’s hunt for the next European unicorn

According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might.

As AI jitters rattle IT stocks, Infosys partners with Anthropic to build ‘enterprise-grade’ AI agents

Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic’s Claude models into its Topaz AI platform to build so-called “agentic” systems.

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

Cohere’s Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

Adani pledges $100B to build AI data centers as India seeks bigger role in the global AI race

Adani’s plan targets up to 5 gigawatts of capacity, with data centers planned alongside partnerships with Google, Microsoft, and Flipkart.

Airbnb expands its “Reserve Now, Pay Later” globally

The feature allows users to cancel eligible bookings if there is a change of plans — without losing money upfront.

TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s savior

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

What the Epstein files reveal about EV startups and Silicon Valley

Will the Epstein revelations lead to broader fallout in Silicon Valley?

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.