OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPOΒ TechCrunch By: Rebecca Bellan 18 June 2026 at 20:59 OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation TechCrunch By: Rebecca Bellan 18 June 2026 at 16:20 The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medalβs dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Techβs $100M gunfightΒ TechCrunch By: Rebecca Bellan 18 June 2026 at 16:13 Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.