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TechCrunch's Biggest AI Stories of 2026: Deals, Protests and High-Stakes Negotiations
TechCrunch recaps the first months of 2026: major acquisitions, indie developer wins, public protest and negotiations with existential stakes.
Nyne raises $5.3M to give AI agents personal context about their users
Nyne, a startup founded by a father and son, has closed a $5.3M seed round from Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons to build personal-context infrastructure…
Meta weighs laying off 20% of staff to fund AI infrastructure
Mark Zuckerberg's company may cut one in five employees, redirecting the savings into aggressive AI infrastructure spending and AI-focused acquisitions.
Jensen Huang at GTC 2026: Nvidia sets the course for the future of AI and computing
Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica Sue OpenAI Over 100,000 Articles
Fuse raises $25M to push legacy systems out of US credit unions
Nvidia DLSS 5 uses generative AI for photorealism in games and beyond
Memories.ai is building a visual memory layer for wearables and robots
Startup Memories.ai is developing a large visual memory model that would let wearables and robots index and retrieve video recordings of real-world events.
Nvidia unveils NemoClaw, an enterprise AI agent platform built around security
Nvidia has announced NemoClaw, an open enterprise platform for AI agents built on the viral OpenClaw, aimed at corporate AI's biggest problem: security.
Picsart opens an AI agent marketplace: content creators can "hire" AI assistants
Sears exposed customers' AI chatbot conversations to anyone on the internet
Gamma launches Gamma Imagine, AI image generation aimed at Canva and Adobe
Startup Niv-AI Exits Stealth With $12M to Tackle GPU Power Spikes
BuzzFeed shows off AI apps at SXSW, but the audience shrugs
At SXSW, BuzzFeed unveiled new AI apps for social networks as it hunts for fresh revenue, but the demos failed to impress the audience.
Nvidia releases DLSS 5, but the new technology mangles character faces in games
Nvidia called DLSS 5 the biggest breakthrough in graphics since 2018, but early demos show the technology turning character faces into AI slop: blurry and unnatural.
Garry Tan's Claude Code setup: thousands tried it, opinions split
Y Combinator's CEO posted his Claude Code configuration on GitHub, setting off a debate among developers and even among the AI models themselves.
Patreon CEO calls AI companies' fair use argument untenable
ChatGPT Didn't Cure a Dog's Cancer: How a Viral Story Got Exaggerated
Walmart shifts strategy: Sparky replaces OpenAI-powered auto-checkout
Nothing CEO Carl Pei: Smartphone Apps Will Disappear, Replaced by AI Agents
Meta can't rein in rogue AI agents that expose corporate data
A Meta AI agent accidentally exposed restricted corporate and user data to engineers who lacked access rights. The company acknowledges difficulty controlling…
Multiverse Computing opens a public API with compressed models from OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has launched a public API with compressed versions of models from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI for local deployment…
Google teaches Fitbit's AI coach to read users' medical records
Adobe Firefly Custom Models: Train an Image Generator on Your Own Style
Signal's Moxie Marlinspike to Protect Chats for Billions of Meta AI Users
Meta AI agent goes rogue, exposing data access for two hours
OpenAI to merge ChatGPT, Codex and the Atlas browser into a single desktop super app
OpenAI is preparing a desktop super app that will combine ChatGPT, Codex and the Atlas browser, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing a memo from Fidji Simo.
Nvidia GTC as the 'AI Super Bowl,' Tesla disappoints fans, and Meta winds down Horizon Worlds
Jensen Huang laid out Nvidia's direction at its main developer conference, while Tesla and Meta face a crisis of expectations over their own flagship…
LinkedIn invited an AI co-founder to speak at a corporate event, then banned him
A Wired author created an AI persona as his startup's co-founder. LinkedIn itself invited it to a corporate event, then immediately blocked the account.
Power shortage opens new opportunities for AI infrastructure investors
Why People Don't Trust AI: Surveys Show a Widening Gap Between Hype and Reality
Amazon is building an Alexa-based smartphone 10 years after the Fire Phone flop
