Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher’s new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

AI-Powered Theodore Roosevelt Is Ready To Answer Your Questions

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens in North Dakota on July 4 featuring multiple interactive elements, including a chatty, lifelike avatar of the president.

Confidential Computing In The AI Era

Confidential computing (CC) emerges as an important solution, utilizing hardware-rooted Trusted Execution Environments to protect data while it’s actively being processed

Washington Blinked: 18 Days That Bent The U.S.-China AI Race

Open source and closed models have become competing strategic narratives in the global competition for AI dominance.

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Google’s 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash

Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. 

Cloudflare Moves To Make AI Pay For The Content It Consumes

Cloudflare just introduced the Agentic Internet, where AI must pay for content. Here are 3 leadership actions to take before the standards race locks in.