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Linkdaze's Free Smart Calendar Tackles the Real Job: Running Your Life Linkdaze has launched a digital calendar that goes beyond scheduling meetings and deadlines. The tool includes built-in AI features—like a meal planner—without hiding them behind paid tiers. Unlike most productivity apps that gate useful features,
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New AI Rival Claims It Outperforms ChatGPT and Claude at Research Tasks A British AI lab called Inherent, founded by former DeepMind researchers, has released an AI agent named Faraday that can replicate scientific research papers better than competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. The
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Claude's Safety Guardrails Easier to Bypass Than Anthropic Claims Anthropic has built strict safeguards into its Claude AI models to prevent them from generating sexually explicit content. But recent testing by TechCrunch revealed those restrictions can be circumvented with relatively simple workarounds—raising questions about how well the
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OpenAI Pulls Ahead in Business Users—But Don't Get Too Comfortable OpenAI is winning over more business users than Anthropic right now, according to new data. But here's the catch: companies are switching between the two platforms frequently, moving to whichever one has the latest and
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Why Stripe Really Bought OpenRouter—And What It Means for Your Business Stripe, the payments processing giant, acquired OpenRouter, a startup that helps businesses use multiple AI models at once. While Stripe mentioned the distant possibility of "the singularity" as motivation, the real reason is far more practical:
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OpenAI Tightens Security After Hugging Face Breach—What It Means for Your Business OpenAI has rolled out new safety measures following a security incident at Hugging Face, a popular AI model platform. The company is now implementing stricter monitoring during model development and beefing up security checks during the post-training
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Google Absorbs Relay's AI Team as Startup Shuts Down Relay, an AI automation startup, is closing its doors. The company's founder and CEO Jacob Bank announced that the team is joining Google's Chrome division to work on AI-powered automation features directly in the browser.
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Why Zuckerberg's AI Vision Isn't Winning Everyone Over Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has been aggressively pushing his vision for artificial intelligence—from massive data center investments to AI-powered features across Facebook and Instagram. But according to recent discussions on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, not
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Anthropic Details Claude's New Watermark System—Here's What It Means for Your Business Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has released specifics on how its upcoming watermarking system will work. The watermarks are designed to be embedded invisibly into text generated by Claude, making it easier
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Google Lets You Hide the Watermark on AI-Generated Images—But There's a Catch Google is giving users the ability to remove the visible watermark from images created with its AI generation tools. The company says turning off this setting won't erase the invisible digital markers embedded
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Databricks Lands $5 Billion Funding Round as AI Costs Soar Data analytics platform Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation this week—more than five times what the company originally planned to seek. Founder Ali Ghodsi told TechCrunch that investor demand was so strong, the company expanded its
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AI Nuclear Power Company Fermi Names New CEO After Leadership Shake-Up Fermi, an AI-focused nuclear energy startup, has appointed Lee McIntire as its new chief executive officer. McIntire, who previously served as an independent board member, takes over more than three months after the company removed co-founder Toby Neugebauer from
