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The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

If AI legal tech funding was a baseball game, this might be roughly the fifth inning. One already has a sense of top-performing players and which team is in the lead. Nonetheless, it’s much too early to confidently call a winner. It’s been a rapid progression to get here. In the past two years, venture…

A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No….

Make the most of Disrupt’s crowds of potential investors and partners by exhibiting your startup from October 13-15. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman is worried that artificial intelligence technology will end up being controlled by just a handful of companies or people in future, resulting in nobody else having any say about how it impacts society. Speaking in an interview with the podcaster David Senra today, Altman (pictured) warned against a…

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and latency. This is a major bottleneck for enterprises building long-horizon, multi-LLM workflows….

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…

Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

As artificial intelligence data centers continue to proliferate across Ohio and public opposition grows, Axios reported today that the GOP’s Senate campaign arm has privately warned AI companies that they need to do something about the increasingly toxic image of the facilities. The centers have become the battleground for the upcoming election in which Republican…

The funds will allow Wispr to increase its footprint as it ventures into new areas, such as meetings, with its newly released note-taker tool. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story