Delve whistleblower strikes again, with alleged receipts about ‘fake compliance’
Shortly after Delve’s founder published a lengthy denial of allegations, while promising changes, the accuser came forward with more alleged details.
Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we’ve seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn’t disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than double…
Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after U.S. Air Force deal
In one year, Shield AI’s value has leaped 140%. This after it won a contract to be the software provider to Anduril’s Fury fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force.
Silicon Valley’s two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve
LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.
Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down
Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Elad Gil can’t get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.
Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product
With an overflowing war chest from its recent $5 billion raise, Databricks is buying startups and looking for more. It acquired Antimatter and SiftD.ai.
Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way
Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.
An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple
Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.
Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.
Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate
Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup, which was shared on Github. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.