Anthropic closes in on $20B round

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data

Founded by former Google Japan leaders, InfiniMind is building enterprise AI to turn vast, unused video archives into searchable, actionable business intelligence.

Call for speakers: TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Submit to speak at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 to lead a roundtable. Share scaling insights with 1,100 founders on June 23 in Boston. Apply here.

Siemens CEO Roland Busch’s mission to automate everything
Siemens CEO Roland Busch’s mission to automate everything

Today, I’m talking with Roland Busch, who is the CEO of Siemens. Siemens is one of those absolutely giant, extremely important, but fairly opaque companies we love to dig into on Decoder. At a very basic, reductive level, Siemens makes the hardware and software that allow other companies to run and automate their stuff. Everyone […]

OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today
OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today

OpenAI plans to start testing ads in ChatGPT today, according to a report from CNBC. The “clearly labeled” ads will appear in a separate area beneath your chat, OpenAI announced last month. A source close to the situation tells CNBC that OpenAI “expects ads to make up less than half of its revenue long term.” […]

Hybrid AI: Industry Event Signals Emerging Hot Trend

AI is not yet the success that it should be, so two dozen enterprises will disclose their move toward a crucial new paradigm – hybrid AI – at a 2026 conference.

Legal AI Startup Harvey In Talks To Raise $200 Million At $11 Billion Valuation

The startup, which develops AI software for lawyers and big law firms, is raising additional capital, increasing its valuation from $8 billion just two months ago.

Neuro-Symbolic AI Steps Up To Produce Robust Mental Health Treatment Plans

AI can be used to produce mental health treatment plans. That’s already happening. The next era is using neuro-symbolic AI. I lay out the future. An AI Insider scoop.

AI Is Breaking Jobs Into Tasks, And That Changes Everything

AI is not automating jobs in one go; it is disassembling them into tasks, deleting repetitive work, and forcing new human responsibilities to emerge.

OpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax
OpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax

As if OpenAI didn’t have enough drama around the Super Bowl and advertising, as the game wound down, word spread of a “leaked” ad that actually wasn’t leaked at all; it was just a fake. Screenshots of a now-deleted Reddit thread told the tale of a frustrated employee who, while posting about how upset they […]