Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell
TechCrunch AI
At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
TechCrunch AI
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
TechCrunch AI
The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf, and now have dueling ad campaigns.
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
VentureBeat AI
Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of lega
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
VentureBeat AI
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked
Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models
MIT Tech Review
In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into bankrolling the company. Along the way, he warned that AI could destroy us all and sat
The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs
MIT Tech Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to
A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content
MIT Tech Review
A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to launch next week. It blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blocking for such content that can’t be turned off even by adult account owners. It’s also rolling out
Exclusive eBook: Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones
MIT Tech Review
The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body. This subscriber-only eBook explores R3 Bio, a small startup that has pitched a startling and ethically charged vision for “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies. byAntonio Regalado March 30, 2026 Related Stories:
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Wired AI
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.
Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’
Wired AI
Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected.
Reid Hoffman Thinks Doctors Should Ask AI for a Second Opinion
Wired AI
The LinkedIn cofounder now has an AI drug discovery startup—and thinks not asking chatbots for medical advice is “bordering on committing malpractice.”