AI 

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.

Lauren Forristal · 7 Jul 2026

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

Lucas Ropek · 7 Jul 2026

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.

Russell Brandom · 7 Jul 2026

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.

Lucas Ropek · 7 Jul 2026

AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.

Kate Park · 8 Jul 2026

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.

Anna Heim · 8 Jul 2026

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

Rebecca Bellan · 6 Jul 2026

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models.

Sarah Perez · 6 Jul 2026

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Rebecca Bellan, Connie Loizos · 6 Jul 2026

The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.

Sarah Perez · 6 Jul 2026

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

Russell Brandom · 6 Jul 2026

SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.

Julie Bort · 6 Jul 2026