OpenAI is so pissed off with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that did not ship the subscribers and prominence it anticipated that the corporate is now actively exploring authorized motion in opposition to the iPhone maker, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing folks acquainted with the matter. In line with Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an out…
Meridian Ventures was born out of a shared experience: deferred MBAs. Now, founders Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney have raised a $35 million fund to back pre-seed and seed-stage companies started by people like them. Gethers, 29, told TechCrunch the idea for a firm arose after he met Haney in Harvard’s MBA deferred admission program…
AI video-generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford founders, no ex-Google founders, no nine-figure seed round that bought them time to ignore revenue. Its three founders — two from Chile, one from Greece — met at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and built the company in New York. Runway…
President Trump and a delegation of U.S. officials left Beijing on Friday after two days of high-level talks with the Chinese government, led by President Xi Jinping. Before boarding Air Force One, White House staffers and reporters had to surrender various items collected during the trip, including staff burner phones, credential badges, and lapel pins…
Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles, according to newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Both crashes happened in Austin, Texas, and occurred at low speeds. In each case, there was a safety monitor behind the wheel and…
It’s no secret that AI information facilities have been straining the grid. However Silicon Valley has been comparatively insulated from all of it, because of excessive land and energy costs which have pushed hyperscaler tasks elsewhere. The tech elite may quickly get a style of the ability crunch, although. The Bay Space’s vacationland, Lake Tahoe,…
One of the most entertaining moments in VC this week was a piece of rage-bait marketing from General Catalyst. In a now-viral post on X that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, the venture firm — better known as GC — posted a “VC vs GC” video on Wednesday. The VC was played by…
Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as from strategic and institutional investors for his three — and counting — startups. If the…
class RoutedAgent: def __init__(self, server: MCPToolServer, router: HybridMCPRouter, model: str): self.server = server self.router = router self.model = model def discover_exposed_tools(self, exposed_tool_names: List[str]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]: return [t for t in self.server.tools_list() if t[“name”] in exposed_tool_names] def plan(self, task: str, exposed_tools: List[Dict[str, Any]]) -> PlanOutput: instructions = “”” You are a planning agent in an…
Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian, has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as strategic and institutional investors for his three — and counting — startups. If the latest…
