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I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else TechCrunch
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Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation — Prentis, a new AI research lab…
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Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the "low nine figures" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures” — Poke, the AI…
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Anthropic launches Opus 5
Anthropic launches Opus 5 TechCrunch
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OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating TechCrunch
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OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app TechCrunch
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Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots — Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon…
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Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI rolled out…
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AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M — Hackers are increasingly…
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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models TechCrunch
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today it is making…
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Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure — Runway no longer wants to…
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OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users TechCrunch
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AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. — Etched, the AI chip…
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good TechCrunch
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ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake — ServiceNow, the U.S. enterprise…
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable TechCrunch
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How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face TechCrunch
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Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board — Travis Kalanick's robotics company…
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Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its "micro communities" and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its “micro communities” and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone — As social…
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OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B TechCrunch
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Meta updates WhatsApp's CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies, and more, let users sign up from its iPad app, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta updates WhatsApp's CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies, and more, let users sign up from its iPad app, and more — WhatsApp is rolling out a…
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Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation — Glow, a cybersecurity…
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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter TechCrunch
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models TechCrunch
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Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding — One of the most…
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Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved TechCrunch
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X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it "one of the largest engineering projects" in the company's history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it “one of the largest engineering projects” in the company's history — Nearly a year…
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Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M — AI agents are starting…
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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be? TechCrunch
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Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week &mdash…
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Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed — AI…
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Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers
Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers TechCrunch
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A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Kate Park / TechCrunch: A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure — A farmer in rural India…
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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? TechCrunch
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How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans TechCrunch
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AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral — General Compute, an AI…
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Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her 'Mafia' skills)
Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her 'Mafia' skills) TechCrunch
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DoorDash launches a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, which lets users place orders via an AI agent, available by waitlist to macOS developers in the US and Canada (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: DoorDash launches a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, which lets users place orders via an AI agent, available by waitlist to macOS developers in the US and Canada — Sudo make me a sandwich…
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Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording — OpenAI's Sora may have shut…
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Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences — Newsletter platform Beehiiv is…
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Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music — Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users…
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Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures — Travel agency…
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San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg — Sheryl Sandberg has led a…
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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball? TechCrunch
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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 TechCrunch
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Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm — Meta announced on Thursday…
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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic TechCrunch
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Apple publishes a policy for upcoming Maps ads, says home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be "evaluated on a case-by-case basis", and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple publishes a policy for upcoming Maps ads, says home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be “evaluated on a case-by-case basis”, and more — Apple has…
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Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex TechCrunch