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  • 1 week ago | share.google | Theresa Loconsolo |Rebecca Bellan |Kirsten Korosec |Maxwell Zeff

    AI investments hit $110 billion in 2024, and the funding landscape in 2025 is more competitive than ever. For early-stage startups, that means more money in the market, but also more pressure to stand out. At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Rebecca Bellan sat down with three experienced investors: Jill Chase, partner at CapitalG; Kanu Gulati, partner at Khosla Ventures; and Sara Ittelson, partner at Accel.

  • 2 weeks ago | techcrunch.com | Theresa Loconsolo

    Meta just made a $14.3 billion bet on data-labeling company Scale AI, but it’s not a traditional takeover: Meta’s taking a 49% stake in the company and adding Scale’s co-founder Alexandr Wang to its team. The move signals Meta’s growing urgency to keep up in the AI race, even if its strategy for competing with heavyweights like OpenAI and Google is still a little confusing.

  • 2 weeks ago | techcrunch.com | Theresa Loconsolo

    Generative AI is reshaping the way people work, from full-time employees to freelancers. As coding copilots, design assistants, and AI-powered writing tools become more capable and accessible, creative and technical roles are starting to shift – if not become eliminated entirely. The pressure to adapt is growing across the board. Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman isn’t sugarcoating it.

  • 3 weeks ago | techcrunch.com | Theresa Loconsolo

    If you’ve been following Anthropic, you’ll know it’s been a busy year for the AI startup. Back in March, the company ⁠announced that it raised $3.5 billion⁠ at a $61.5 billion valuation in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Since then, it’s ⁠launched a blog for its Claude models⁠ and, according to Bloomberg reporting, ⁠partnered with Apple⁠ to power a new “vibe-coding” software platform.

  • 3 weeks ago | techcrunch.com | Theresa Loconsolo

    “One of the biggest vulnerabilities in companies is actually humans,” CrowdStrike co-founder and former CTO Dmitri Alperovitch told TechCrunch in this week’s episode of Equity.

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