NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead

NanoCo, the company behind OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised a $12 million seed after a viral launch, the founders tell TechCrunch.

TechCrunch AI·2h ago

The next phase of OpenAI’s Education for Countries

OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.

OpenAI·16h ago

openclaw 2026.5.19-beta.2

Changes Agents: clarify that fixes should default to clean bounded refactors, lean internals, and explicit plugin SDK/API deprecation paths. Dependencies: update @openclaw/proxyline to 0.3.3....

OpenClaw Releases·19h ago

Enterprise AI roadblocks and roadmaps, security and physical AI: Day two at TechEx

Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what was...

AI News·21h ago

OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.

TechCrunch AI·22h ago

Musk Insists Sam Altman 'Stole A Charity:' Here's What Prediction Markets Say About OpenAI's IPO Now

Benzinga·1d ago

NVIDIA-Verified Agent Skills Provide Capability Governance for AI Agents

Autonomous AI agents are becoming more capable. Open models, Model Context Protocol (MCP)-connected tools, and portable skills are also making agents easier to... Autonomous AI agents are becoming...

NVIDIA Developer·17h ago

Introducing OpenAI for Singapore

OpenAI for Singapore launches a multi-year AI partnership to expand deployment, build local talent, and support businesses and public services with AI.

OpenAI·20h ago

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build...

TechCrunch AI·22h ago

Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem

OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media.

OpenAI·1d ago

openclaw 2026.5.19-alpha.1

Changes Agents: clarify that fixes should default to clean bounded refactors, lean internals, and explicit plugin SDK/API deprecation paths. Dependencies: update @openclaw/proxyline to 0.3.3....

OpenClaw Releases·15h ago

OpenAI announces new Guaranteed Capacity offering for customers to secure compute

CNBC·18h ago

Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction.

Ars Technica AI·22h ago

Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO

The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public.

Wired AI·1d ago

How to Build an Advanced Agentic AI System with Planning, Tool Calling, Memory, and Self-Critique Using OpenAI API

In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI system using the OpenAI API and a hidden terminal prompt for the API key. We design the agent as a small pipeline of specialized roles: planner,...

Marktechpost·1d ago