Apple’s top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.
Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.
Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.
The move could shore up weaknesses at each company, but it also reveals them. Neither Cursor nor xAI has proprietary models that can match the leading offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI — the same companies now competing directly with Cursor for the developer market.
Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.
Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.
The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.
Generative AI is being infused into Google’s popular feature within Maps.
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia’s latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.
