Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Microsoft appears to be prepping its sales team to get more competitive with the other major players in the AI industry. …
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Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | TechCrunch
… Each would agree to sell unique products, so no one would have to trust the other on pricing. …
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars | TechCrunch
… Subscription pricing hasn’t yet been a key battleground among AI providers in the U.S. …
Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1 | TechCrunch
… An ongoing source of competitiveness within the AI industry remains the cost of usage, and Meta appears to be offering a competitive rate. …
Applications close in 48 hours — here's everything Australian founders need to know about Stripe x Startup Battlefield | TechCrunch
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Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to 'cut off' Anthropic | TechCrunch
…He also noted that Tesla opened its Supercharger network and charging port design to competitors. “SpaceX launches competing satellite systems with no increase in price or use of unfair terms. Even my…
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product | TechCrunch
… Why speed has become one of the biggest competitive advantages in AI. …
Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026 | TechCrunch
Cerebras Systems raised $5.5 billion in its IPO on Thursday, pricing shares at $185 Wednesday evening, way higher than its range $115 to $125, later raised to $150 to $160 , even as it increased the size of the offering to 30 million shares. …
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI | TechCrunch
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Kimi: Threat or menace? | TechCrunch
… Moonshot said that although Kimi K3 “still trails the most powerful proprietary models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol,” the new open source model “demonstrated frontier-level performance across our evaluation suite, consistently outperforming other tested models.” Independent analyses from Arena.a… …