CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth

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View this email online in your browser  November 11, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth: CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings. Read More Databricks' new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth: With Databricks at 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie agent for that. Read More Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure: Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role. Read More A message from Microsoft and NVIDIA Discover the full-stack AI platforms advancing today’s AI Get a closer look at the technologies moving AI forward with NVIDIA at Microsoft Ignite 2026. Explore sessions on agentic AI built for production, accelerated infrastructure, cloud and AI platforms, physical AI and autonomous systems, and high-fidelity simulations. View the sessions and build your Microsoft Ignite agenda today. Browse sessions Afternoon Must-Reads OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder: OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry. Read More Congress to call Jensen Huang in to answer for alleged Chinese spy affair: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until the end of the day Wednesday to answer a call from House Republicans for a closed-door briefing on his affair with alleged Chinese spy. Read More Is Jensen Huang’s bad behavior more commonplace than it seems?: “There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said. Read More OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect: New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines. Read More OpenAI's quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time: Sales of $10 billion represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter. Read More Last but Not Least Nvidia’s crisis has corporate governance experts reaching for the popcorn: The governance experts we talked to say nobody has seen anything like what's unfolding right now. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks

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View this email online in your browser  November 11, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks: As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures. Read More OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google: OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that. Read More Pixel Tag, Google's $30 Android-ready answer to Apple's AirTag, is now available: Google's Pixel Tag lets you track lost items with your Android device, similar to Apple's AirTag. Read More A message from Intel A blueprint for making robotics a reality Our recent robotics readiness report highlighted a critical gap between organizations’ robotics ambitions and what they’re structured to deliver. This blueprint will help you close that gap and lay a foundation for a successful human-robot workforce. Get Blueprint Morning Must-Reads Databricks' new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth: At 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie agent for that. Read More OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder: OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry. Read More All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPO: Each of the seven co-founders plans to sell exactly the same number of shares in the IPO, which would bring each of them about $250 million in cash at the midpoint of the price range while leaving the group in control of the company. Read More OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect: New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines. Read More Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M: The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.” Read More Last but Not Least Nvidia’s crisis has corporate governance experts reaching for the popcorn: The governance experts we talked to say nobody has seen anything like what's unfolding right now. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107