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Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. That trajectory faces a real test, though.
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Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab
TechCrunch AI
The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.
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Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18
TechCrunch AI
On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence, and adv...
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Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults
Ars Technica AI
By targeting large numbers of users, attackers increased their chances of success.
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Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
TechCrunch AI
Meta may have found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.
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Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform
TechCrunch AI
Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved for Apple’s Messages for Business platform.
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Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center
The Verge AI
Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, sayin...
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Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook
TechCrunch AI
Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people saying in my comments?"
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What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates
TechCrunch AI
Apple's WWDC nears: Here's what you can look forward to.
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Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
TechCrunch AI
The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.
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Comptroller says only Democrats pressuring over crypto trust charter
Cointelegraph
US Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould and New York Representative Gregory Meeks sparred over Donald Trump’s influence on regulators he has nominated as president at a Thursday oversight hearing.
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AI Is Already Developing AI, Says Anthropic—And Humans May Be Slowing Things Down
Decrypt
Anthropic says AI now writes most of its code and runs increasingly complex research tasks, leaving people to decide which problems are worth solving.
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Bitcoin’s Pullback Tests Institutional Adoption Narrative as Pompliano Stays Bullish
Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s Pullback Tests Institutional Adoption Narrative as Pompliano Stays Bullish Bitcoin’s recent pullback is testing the institutional-adoption thesis, but Anthony Pompliano argues the decline reflects normal capital rotation and Bitcoin’s maturation into...
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Republican Lawmaker Plans to Add Prediction Markets to Congressional Stock Ban Bill
Decrypt
Rep. Bryan Steil said he'll add language to the House congressional stock ban bill to cover prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
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Bitcoin fell 21% after Strategy’s debt buyback news— Is a Terra Luna-style doom loop next?
Cointelegraph
Bitcoin price collapsed as Strategy faced tighter liquidity conditions and paused its BTC buying. Is it time to jump ship, or buy the dip?
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Bitcoin Price Plunges Below ‘Fire Sale’ Territory as Fear Index Reads 12 — Echoing the FTX Crash
Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Plunges Below ‘Fire Sale’ Territory as Fear Index Reads 12 — Echoing the FTX Crash Bitcoin price plunged below the Bitcoin Rainbow Chart’s lowest “Basically a Fire Sale!” band for only the second time since the FTX collapse, while the Fear and Gr...
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Russia targets British 17-year-old for alleging digital assets were skirting sanctions
Cointelegraph
Political activist Bill Browder, the teenager’s father, said his son was “the first high school student in the world to be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime” over a report on the ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5.
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'Looksmaxxing' Trend Spawns $100M Gray Market Fueled By Bitcoin, Stablecoins: Chainalysis
Decrypt
Demand for peptides fueled by the "looksmaxxing" trend has spawned a $100 million gray market paid for primarily with crypto.
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Professional investors dumped 52K BTC worth of ETFs in Q1, filings show
Cointelegraph
US spot Bitcoin ETF ownership shifted during the market downturn as hedge funds exited positions, while banks and long-term allocators continued building exposure.
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Schwab Strategist: Bitcoin’s $60,000 Mining Cost Could Mark the Cycle Bottom
Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Magazine Schwab Strategist: Bitcoin’s $60,000 Mining Cost Could Mark the Cycle Bottom Bitcoin's recent crash may have found a durable bottom near $60,000 because that level roughly matches the production cost of the most efficient miners, creating an energy-based floor...