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Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

2026-02-14 05:00:00

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]

AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem

2026-02-14 02:03:32

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten […]

Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back

2026-02-13 22:00:00

Two years ago, a controversial dating app was launched and quickly shuttered: for people with good-to-excellent credit. Now, the founder is relaunching it, open to anyone.

Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline

2026-02-13 18:00:00

Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot

2026-02-13 04:31:47

Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

Eclipse backs all-EV marketplace Ever in $31M funding round

2026-02-12 22:00:09

The San Francisco-based startup says its AI-first approach has allowed it to scale faster.