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  • Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/anthropic-claude-fable.jpg?resize=1200,798″] Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos. But not everyone is happy with the restrictions, and a number of cybersecurity researchers and professionals have aired complaints online.  “[Fable] rejects any request that could be tangentially…

  • Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/techcrunch1.jpeg?w=600″] TechCrunch is partnering with VivaTech 2026 to highlight the technologies, founders, and ideas driving the next wave of innovation. As part of the collaboration, TechCrunch and VivaTech will spotlight emerging startups through the VivaTech Innovation of the Year competition. The winner will earn a chance to pitch live in Paris and secure…

  • Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/sajid_conor_photo_niteshift_launch.jpg?resize=1200,970″] AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but the startup, founded by two former early Datadog engineers, has attracted some big-name angels like Reid Hoffman, Datadog’s Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, Ankur Goyal of Braintrust,…

  • The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX’s unbelievable IPO

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/SpaceXAIsatrender.jpg?resize=1200,639″] SpaceX is coming to market on Friday, and investors can barely contain their excitement. The $75 billion stock offering is reportedly deeply over-subscribed, with some institutional investors ponying up for $10 billion blocks of Elon Musk’s empire. There are lots of reasons to be skeptical of the investment — big IPOs tend…

  • Pinterest bets on creators with Amazon Storefront integration

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pinterest-header.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Pinterest is expanding its partnership with Amazon. The social pinboard site said on Wednesday that it will now serve as a home for creators’ Amazon Storefronts. These online stores allow creators to generate income from affiliate links that direct their fans to products that they often feature in their videos and social…

  • Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/warner-music.jpg?resize=1200,800″] theWarner Music Music (WMG) announced on Wednesday that it’s acquiring AI attribution startup Sureel AI. Sureel’s patented technology creates “AI DNA” for songs and breaks them down into component parts to trace how AI models use those elements. Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists’ and songwriters’ work…

  • Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Jedify-Co-founders.jpg?resize=1200,800″] AI vendors promote their enterprise products as if they’re turnkey solutions, but the chances are low that AI agents will hit the ground running right away. Unless you put in the effort to train a model on the specifics of your business, it’s unlikely to understand how your company, for example, defines…

  • Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Oasis-a.png?resize=1200,677″] AI startup Decart on Wednesday unveiled Oasis 3, its latest interactive world model that can generate photorealistic driving environments in real time, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The model is currently available via API.  The startup is initially targeting autonomous vehicle companies that need to simulate rare driving scenarios at scale, and plans…

  • Snapchat limits users under 16 to sharing Spotlights with friends

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1239583734.jpg?resize=1200,800″] In an attempt to guard underage users from being doxxed, Snapchat is adding new content control restrictions on its platform: Users between 13 and 15 years old will only be able to share Spotlight posts with people they follow back. The social network said that users under 16 years old will get…

  • Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SF_WAYMO-FREEWAY_SIDE.jpg?resize=1200,801″] Waymo has created a new computer model designed to more accurately answer a fundamental question: How does its autonomous driving software stack up against humans? The Alphabet-owned robotaxi company, which developed the computer model of human driving capabilities in conjunction with TU Delft, published a research paper about it in Nature Communications…