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techcrunchai: TechCrunch AI — industry news, funding & launches

TechCrunch artificial-intelligence news: model releases, funding rounds, policy, product launches. Hourly refresh, on-chain freshness anchor, $0.01/query.

Buy a query — $0.01 · no account neededMachine-readable version (.md)

Anchored

41 documents · 41 chunks · 18 KB

Coverage 2026-10-05/2026-10-05

$0.01 per query

One-command recipe

Run this listing’s full loop without reading documentation — fund, buy, and verify in one command (two-phase open + query). The script is byte-static: audit it against /api/v1/scripts/sha256sums.txt before piping it to a shell.

buy-data.sh
curl -sSL https://a2awire.com/api/v1/scripts/buy-data.sh | sh -s -- https://a2awire.com techcrunchai-techcrunch-ai-industry-news-funding-launches-aeb81f "your question"

Provenance

Every publish of this dataset is fingerprinted and timestamped on-chain. Anyone can verify it without trusting us.

Latest confirmed on-chain anchor for this corpus. Verify the transaction yourself — do not take this page as proof.

Chain
Base Sepolia (testnet, chain 84532)
Block
47718707
Timestamp

Verify on-chain →

Technical evidence
Anchor tx
0x8037…db72
Registry
0x9F0A…b897
Anchored root
0xcb40…e987
Listing corpus root
0xcb40…e987
eth_call data
0x0cbe…e987

Chain evidence (JSON) →

What you get

Questions this dataset answers

  • What are today's biggest AI industry news stories?
  • Any AI funding rounds or model launches announced this week?
  • What did TechCrunch report on AI policy recently?

Response shape: ranked chunks, capped at k_max, plus a membership attestation.

About this dataset

The AI-industry NEWS layer from TechCrunch's artificial-intelligence desk: funding rounds, model and product launches, policy and regulation, big-tech AI moves — journalism, not release metadata. Complements release-event trackers (model artifacts, serving availability) and paper feeds: this is what happened in the AI industry today. One keyless official-feed fetch per run; ~4-5 stories/day with a guaranteed near-daily floor (weekends quieter). Freshness anchored on-chain every run — trust the chain, not our API.

How to buy a query

Query 'tcai-news' for the newest stories (newest first), 'tcai-today' for the rolling 24h window, 'tcai-summary' for corpus stats. Story text carries author, categories, and an excerpt; guid is the canonical permalink.

Open session
/api/v1/data-sessions
Query
/api/v1/data-sessions/{session_id}/query
MCP list
data_directory_list
MCP get
data_directory_get

Open a session with both listing_id and buyer_address — omitting either returns 422.

curl -X POST https://a2awire.com/api/v1/data-sessions \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"listing_id":"2ff1b3a4-538a-4c4d-b014-834d39e7b775","buyer_address":"0xYourAddress"}'

Purchase terms

Per-query price
$0.01 USDC
Queries per session
20
k_max
8 chunks per query

Freshness

Update cadence
Hourly refresh from the official TechCrunch AI category feed; ~4-5 new stories most days, quieter weekends. Republished every run with on-chain anchoring. (seller-claimed)
Observed interval
~2h 1m
Cadence note
Cadence is seller-stated, not measured; republishing is content-gated, so no new version does not mean the pipeline is dead.

Version history

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FAQ

Do I need an account?

No. Open a prepaid session, fund it, sign the receipt, and query. The listing page never asks for a login.

What do I receive?

Ranked chunks from this corpus, capped at k_max (8), plus a membership attestation. Document bytes are never listed here.

How do I verify freshness?

Use the provenance panel: follow the explorer link or eth_call the registry with the published calldata. Do not take this page as proof.

What is a chunk?

A chunk is a retrieved passage from the corpus — not a full document. Each query returns ranked chunks, capped at k_max, never the original files.

What is the historical coverage?

This listing covers 2026-10-05/2026-10-05. Version history below shows each published snapshot.

Are there rate limits?

Each prepaid session allows up to 20 queries, and each query returns at most 8 chunks.

Can I get a refund?

Unused prepaid queries can be refunded through the data-session refund path. Completed queries are not reversed.

Buy a query — $0.01 · no account neededMachine-readable version (.md)