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Elon Musk said he’s not interested in acquiring TikTok

Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an

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Autodesk CTO Raji Arasu calls for diversity in the teams building AI

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been

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Why the ‘spirit’ of open source means much more than a license

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If

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Christie’s announces AI art auction, and not everyone is pleased

Fine art auction house, Christie’s, has sold AI-generated art before. But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated

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Bpifrance will invest $10B in the French AI ecosystem by 2029

France’s public investment bank announced that it plans to invest as much as €10 billion (around $10.3 billion at current

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The biggest breach of US government data is under way

Operatives working for Elon Musk have gained unprecedented access to a swath of U.S. government departments — including agencies responsible

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Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation

Just six months after defense tech Anduril raised a massive $1.5 billion round that valued the company at $14 billion,

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Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried about competitor DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that took Silicon Valley by storm with

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Fintech Rapyd seeks funding at $3.5B valuation, a steep drop from $9B

Rapyd Financial Network is looking to raise $300 million in a new funding round that would value the global payments

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One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge

This week, Silicon Valley came barrelling into Washington, D.C., in the form of fresh-faced engineers supposedly running the government. A