AI News
The 'ChatGPT cured my dog' story is now a Y Combinator-backed startup
The Verge AI · Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Paul Conyngham, the Australian entrepreneur who went viral earlier this year for claiming he used ChatGPT and other AI...
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Research
Transformers hit a wall, so 4 startups are chasing the next great LLM architecture
MIT Technology Review · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Nine years after Google researchers gave the world the transformer, the architecture that powers every major large lang...
Startups
Ditto's AI matchmaker skips the chat — 150,000 Gen Z users now date on command
TechCrunch AI · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Tinder fatigue has gotten so bad that college students are handing their love lives over to an iMessage bot that orders...
Startups
Google's Jeff Dean quits to launch Discovery Loop, an AI startup chasing fully automated science
TechCrunch AI · Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Jeff Dean is leaving Google. And he's not going quietly. After 25 years as one of the company's most consequential eng...
Startups
Wrinkles App Uses AI and 1.3M Data Points to Whisper Local History, No Phone Staring Required
TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
David Stemler had a familiar, frustrating experience at the British Museum: head down, eyes locked on a screen, matchin...
AI News
Pippa pitches artists $0.005 per image, but its AI still runs on scraped work
The Verge AI · Aug 2, 2026 · 2 min read
AI video startup Pippa wants to be the Apple Music to generative AI's Napster era—a legal alternative that pays artists...
Research
A dead geothermal plant just hit 4,000 gallons a minute after drilling 5,500 feet deeper
MIT Technology Review · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
The Lightning Dock geothermal plant in New Mexico was a mess when startup Zanskar bought it in June 2024. The water fee...
Startups
Reid Hoffman-backed Prentis eyes $1B valuation to automate office drudgery
TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A new AI lab called Prentis is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, aiming to make the mundane par...
Startups
OpenAI kills Atlas browser just 9 months in as the $200/mo agent wars heat up
TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
The browser is no longer a window — it's a battleground for AI agents that want to live your digital life for you. And...
Startups
Ex-Snap ML engineer's app Reelful wants AI to edit your Reels
TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Kate Deyneka spent years building video and image models at Snapchat. Now she's betting that the same people who find t...
Product
OpenAI's New Pioneers Program Aims to Fix AI's Benchmark Obsession
OpenAI Blog · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI just announced the Pioneers Program, a hands-on initiative that pairs its research teams directly with startups...
Product
OpenAI plants flag in Ireland with gov-backed SME push
OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI isn't just opening an office in Dublin — it's embedding itself into Ireland's economic strategy. The company jus...
Product
OpenAI plants flag in Australia with 1.2M worker upskilling deal
OpenAI Blog · Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read
OpenAI is making its most significant geographic push into the Asia Pacific yet, launching 'OpenAI for Australia' — a t...