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Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content

Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly

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Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots

Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, on Wednesday announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to enable real-world machines

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Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s show

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on

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FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money

Citibank revealed in court filings on Wednesday that the FBI, the EPA, the EPA Inspector General, and the Treasury Department

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Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from

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Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral

Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile

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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies,

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OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation

Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open-source option for

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Sakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that

Japanese startup Sakana said that its AI generated the first peer-reviewed scientific publication. But while the claim isn’t untrue, there

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Battery manufacturer Northvolt nears the end as it files for bankruptcy in Sweden

Northvolt filed for bankruptcy in Sweden on Wednesday, the latest blow to Europe’s attempts to create a battery manufacturing juggernaut