Long before Spotify, Winamp was the music player of choice for millions of music fans. Now, the nostalgic brand is preparing for another comeback. Winamp and Deezer announced a partnership on Wednesday that will see Deezer power Winamp’s upcoming premium music subscription service. Under the agreement, Winamp will leverage Deezer’s white label technology and globally
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she was stepping down from her role, citing health concerns. “I don’t feel like I can continue at the pace a startup requires,” he wrote in an internal Slack message, which he also shared on X. “After thinking about it for several months, I finally
AI hasn’t just changed the way startups are built; It’s unclear how they sell, protect their data and customers, and scale faster than ever. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, AI Stage returns to delve into the hottest topic in the community in recent years, brought to you by Google for Startups. This time, we’re exploring the
When Microsoft reported excellent earnings in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it included an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two largest and competing AI labs are faring. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a gain of $3.2 billion, increasing diluted
Microsoft is in a unique position as AI overtakes the tech industry. It is one of the world’s largest cloud providers and software-as-a-service companies, while also owning valuable stakes in the two largest artificial intelligence labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. Those incentives are starting to collide as Microsoft releases blockbuster financial results. The company just reported
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to convince investors of his prediction for the future, in which billions of people will have their own personal AI agents within the next five years. (Let’s hope the future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those agents, without triggering a new wave
