Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others.   On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, [...]

Key creator of the internet joins Innovation Labs Advisory Board. Vint Cerf, one of the “fathers of the internet”, is advising Identity Digital’s effort to use DNS for AI agent identification. Innovation Labs, a division of Identity Digital focused on building its so-called DNSid, announced Cerf’s involvement today. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP protocols and the basic [...]

Company files launch plans for three more top level domains. Google Registry has filed plans with ICANN to launch the .eat, .here, and .fly top level domain names. The company applied for the domains in the 2012 top level domain expansion round. With the 2026 round application window about to close, the company is finally [...]

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.

Afternic Portfolio Agent helps domain sellers analyze their portfolios and make changes. Afternic did a limited release of its new Portfolio Agent this month. It’s currently being tested on accounts with 500 or fewer domains, but I asked GoDaddy to enable it for my account so I could take it for a test spin. Portfolio [...]

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Authors defend research showing malicious domain registrations occur at industrial scale, arguing that blocklist data is reliable and that policymakers must prioritize prevention alongside mitigation to curb cybercriminal exploitation of the domain name market globally.

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.