OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO | TechCrunch

OpenAI is reportedly close to securing another mega round of private funding, rather than plowing ahead with an IPO. The AI lab is working on raising up to $30 billion…

1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password | TechCrunch

Concerns have swirled over the access that consumers are increasingly entrusting to AI agents. Now, security services are trying to catch up. Password manager 1Password on Thursday launched a new…

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work | TechCrunch

Uber and OpenAI announced an expansion of their partnership on Thursday, with the ride-share giant telling TechCrunch that its entire global workforce — some 30,000 people — will now be…

PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet | TechCrunch

The U.S. National Security Agency’s sent out an alarming warning on Wednesday that two critical holes had been found in PHP, with patches already issued by the PHP Foundation. PHP…

OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system

OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled…

Judge dismisses Sam Altman’s sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit

When the case was filed last year, a statement shared by Sam Altman, his mother, and his brothers said, “Annie has made deeply hurtful and entirely untrue claims about our…

CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem

CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition — when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they’d get…

Khosla ka Ghosla: Silicon Valley superstar is hiring chief of staff, expect no rest in the nest

File photo: Vinod Khosla, the 71-year-old co-founder of Sun Microsystems and boss of Khosla Ventures TOI correspondent from Washington: Vinod Khosla has spent decades in Silicon Valley funding companies and…

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner…

ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the…