TechCrunch AI News — Quick Scrape · May 15, 2026

Ingested: 2026-05-15T09:08:00Z Source: https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/

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Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman: What the jury will actually decide

• Published: 10 hours ago
• Category: AI
• Note: Jury trial coverage — legal showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI governance.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger

• Published: 11 hours ago
• Category: AI
• Note: SpaceXAI turnover since quasi-merger and xAI integration.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/

OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone

• Published: 12 hours ago
• Category: AI — Product Launch
• Note: OpenAI's AI coding assistant (Codex) expanding to mobile — what it means for on-the-go AI coding.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/openai-says-codex-is-coming-to-your-phone/

What happens when AI starts building itself?

• Published: 13 hours ago
• Category: AI — Analysis
• Note: Self-referential AI development: models writing their own training and evaluation loops.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/

OpenAI reportedly preparing legal action against Apple

• Published: 14 hours ago
• Category: AI — Legal/IP
• Note: Reported OpenAI vs. Apple legal escalation — not the first OpenAI partner dispute.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/

Clawdmeter: turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard

• Published: 14 hours ago
• Category: Dev Tools / AI Agents
• Note: Open-source desktop widget for monitoring Claude Code token usage and costs — useful if you're shipping Claude-native apps.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/gadgets/

Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops 108%, in first huge tech IPO of 2026

• Published: 16 hours ago
• Category: Funding / AI Infrastructure
• Note: Sold 30M shares at $185. Starting range $115–125; ended at $185. $5.55B raised. Biggest US tech IPO since Uber. Now at ~$100B market cap.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/hardware/

Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs

• Published: 19 hours ago
• Category: Funding / AI Data
• Note: Data-for-AI pipeline: creative imagery/multimodal content supply for training. Series A-ish round. Think stock photography meets AI training data.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to redirect AI spend

• Published: 19 hours ago
• Category: AI — Enterprise
• Note: Cisco laying off 4K to accelerate AI spending; record quarterly revenue shows bigger enterprise AI gravy train.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/cisco-cuts-nearly-4000-jobs-to-spend-more-on-ai-reports-record-quarterly-revenue/

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta's news chief, has thoughts

• Published: 1 day ago
• Category: AI — Policy
• Note: Campbell Brown (ex-Meta News) on content curation authority in AI interfaces — the AI editor-in-chief problem.
• URL: https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/