Friday, 13 February 2026

Top Stories

- Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-12 Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot. - IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-12 IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years. - Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha. (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-12 "I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space." - Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-12 Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and ta - Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-12 The infusion of funding for the AI startup takes place as it is vying for customers and cultural attention with its competitor, OpenAI. - Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-12 Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development. - A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-12 OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker. - xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available. - AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources. - OpenAI disbands mission alignment team (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company. - Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May - Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 Uber Eats launched a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” that can automatically add items to your cart based on text or image prompts. - Glean’s fight to own the AI layer inside every company (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?  Glean, which - Who will own your company’s AI layer? Glean’s CEO explains (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?  Glean, which - Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mou - Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 A 1 GW orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4 billion — almost three times its ground-bound equivalent. - Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ AI feature lets you personalize your feed (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 The platform's new feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed. - How AI changes the math for startups, according to a Microsoft VP (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 Amanda Silver is a corporate vice president at Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying apps and agentic systems within enterprises. - Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales startup to upend Salesforce (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 The startup, Monaco, has come out of stealth as an AI-native all-in-one CRM plus more system backed by names like the Collison brothers and Garry Tan. - Build a pipeline and close deals with an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI) 2026-02-11 Get an unmatched ROI by exhibiting your startup in front of 10,000 tech leaders and investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, October 13-15 in San Francisco. Book your table now before it's gone. - Browse Business (Reuters AI) - Browse Sustainability (Reuters AI) - Sponsored Content (Reuters AI) - Exclusive: ByteDance developing AI chip, in manufacturing talks with Samsung (Reuters AI) - Momentum AI New York, opens new tab (Reuters AI) - Google identifies state-sponsored hackers using AI in attacks (AI News) - Barclays bets on AI to cut costs and boost returns (AI News) - How insurance leaders use agentic AI to cut operational costs (AI News) - Red Hat unifies AI and tactical edge deployment for UK MOD (AI News) - Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI (AI News) - FedEx tests how far AI can go in tracking and returns management (AI News) - How SAP is modernising HMRC’s tax infrastructure with AI (AI News) - AI use surges at Travelers as call centre roles reduce (AI News) - PepsiCo is using AI to rethink how factories are designed and updated (AI News) - Meeting the new ETSI standard for AI security (AI News) - View All Latest (AI News) - Agentic AI in healthcare: How Life Sciences marketing could achieve $450B in value by 2028 (AI News) - Exclusive: Why are Chinese AI models dominating open-source as Western labs step back? (AI News) - AI Expo 2026 Day 2: Moving experimental pilots to AI production (AI News) - OpenAI’s enterprise push: The hidden story behind AI’s sales race (AI News) - AI Expo 2026 Day 1: Governance and data readiness enable the agentic enterprise (AI News) - From blogosphere to the AI & Big Data Expo: Rackspace and operational AI (AI News) - How Cisco builds smart systems for the AI era (AI News) - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026 (AI News) - Drive Real Results: Build a Business-Focused Data & Analytics Strategy (AI News) - How to Calculate Business Value and Cost for Generative AI Use Cases (AI News) - Thailand becomes one of the first in Asia to get the Sora app (AI News) - Malaysia launches Ryt Bank, its first AI-powered bank (AI News) - Google’s Veo 3 AI video creation tools are now widely available (AI News) - Computer Vision (AI News) - US and Japan announce sweeping AI and tech collaboration (AI News) - UK and Canada sign AI compute agreement (AI News) - Quantum AI represents a ‘transformative advancement’ (AI News) - Machine Learning (AI News) - How AI is changing the way we travel (AI News) - Spot AI introduces the world’s first universal AI agent builder for security cameras (AI News) - Tony Blair Institute AI copyright report sparks backlash (AI News) - Cold snap highlight’s airlines’ proactive use of AI (AI News) - Retailers examine options for on-AI retail (AI News) - IBM Research unveils breakthrough analog AI chip for efficient deep learning (AI News) - Damian Bogunowicz, Neural Magic: On revolutionising deep learning with CPUs (AI News) - OpenAI’s GPT-3 is a convincing philosopher (AI News) - On-Demand Webinar: AI Combined with Automation is the Perfect Marriage for Scalable, Intelligent Operations (AI News) - On-Demand Webinar: DataOps Can Build the Foundation For Your Generative AI Ambitions (AI News) - On-Demand Webinar: From Complexity to Clarity: AI + Agility Layer for Intelligent Insurance (AI News) - On-Demand Webinar: Turning a Hacker’s Toolkit Against Them (AI News) - On-Demand Webinar: CMS Buyer’s Briefing: A Live Look at What’s Next in AI-Driven Platforms (AI News) - On-Demand Webinar – From pretexting to payloads and everything in between: The latest phishing threat trends in 2023 (AI News) - Data Centers Expo North America 2026 (AI News) - Private 5G networks: Solving the space and power problem (AI News) - Hybrid satellite IoT networks outperform terrestrial deployments (AI News) - InHand improves construction safety with on-site AI video analytics (AI News) - AI search is changing brand visibility — EZY.ai shows how (AI News) - 6G may arrive as sensing infrastructure, not just connectivity (AI News)