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OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding. Source

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI. Source

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with non-consensual nude images. Source

Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding. Source

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Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code. Source

Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder. Source

Register now to secure discounts of up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. Offer ends tomorrow, February 27, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Source

The latest round of layoffs marks eBay’s third workforce reduction in the past three years. Source

X has launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, so advertisers can now reuse assets they've created for other platforms. Source