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TechCrunch AI7/27/2025

DOGE has built an AI tool to slash federal regulations

The Department of Government Efficiency has presented plans to use a new AI tool to eliminate half of the federal government’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald...

TechCrunch AI7/27/2025

‘Wizard of Oz’ blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen

The massive Las Vegas venue known as Sphere will be screening its first classic movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” starting on August 28. And as detailed in a segment on...

TechCrunch AI7/25/2025

A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already....

TechCrunch AI7/25/2025

AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B

AI platforms in June 2025 generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, up 357% year-over-year....

TechCrunch AI7/25/2025

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

Google is testing a new vibe-coding tool called Opal, available in the U.S. through Google Labs, that lets users quickly spin up web apps with just a few prompts....

TechCrunch AI7/25/2025

Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab....

TechCrunch AI7/25/2025

Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist

In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI...

TechCrunch AI7/25/2025

Should Silicon Valley celebrate Trump’s AI plans?

The big AI companies seem to be in a celebratory mood after President Donald Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan — not surprising, perhaps, since the plan was shaped by...

TechCrunch AI7/25/2025

Tesla is reportedly behind on its pledge to build 5,000 Optimus bots this year

Tesla is behind on its goal to produce at least 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots by the end of 2025....

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

A new AI coding challenge just published its first results — and they aren’t pretty

A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers....

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

As AI companions from companies like Replika, Character AI, and Nomi AI abound, love is no longer strictly human. In this debate, we ask the question of whether it should...

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

AI slop and fake reports are coming for your bug bounty programs

"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having...

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI to revolutionize estate processing

Acrew Capital's Kolodny led a $20 million Series A in Alix, a startup that uses AI to automate estate processing....

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

Google’s new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes

The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images....

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

Google’s new Web Guide search experiment organizes results with AI

Google's new Search Labs experiment will organize the search results using AI smarts....

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

Intel continues to pull back on its manufacturing projects

Intel canceled multiple manufacturing projects in Europe and delayed its Ohio chip plant for the second time this year....

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

Samsung backs a video AI startup that can analyze thousands of hours of footage

Memories.ai's platform can process up to 10 million hours of video. For companies with a lot of video to analyze, the startup wants to provide a contextual layer, complete with...

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflows with AI

LegalOn, which provides AI-powered contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in a Series C round....

TechCrunch AI7/24/2025

This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

In a red-hot acquisition market, the CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers....

TechCrunch AI7/23/2025

Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models

The order calls out diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), calling it a “pervasive and destructive” ideology that can “distort the quality and accuracy of the output.”...

TechCrunch AI7/17/2025

Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M

San Francisco-based startup Confident Security wants to be “the Signal for AI." The company just came out of stealth with $4.2 million and a tool that wraps around AI models...

TechCrunch AI7/17/2025

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch

Only eight months after its launch, Sweden's Lovable has raised a $200 million Series A round led by Accel at a $1.8 billion valuation....

TechCrunch AI7/17/2025

Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research’ mode

French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google....

TechCrunch AI7/17/2025

OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet....

TechCrunch AI7/17/2025

UAE’s deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold

The U.S. is reportedly holding up the deal due to concerns that AI chips could be smuggled to China from the UAE....

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theregister.com7/16/2025

AI can't finish what it starts. Humans must always check it

Column: CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line

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I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat
WIRED7/16/2025

I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

xAI’s new $300 monthly subscription comes with two AI companions powered by its most capable model to date. I tried them. It got weird.

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GitHub API Test7/16/2025

Scale AI Lays Off 200 Employees - We Ramped Up Our Growth

Scale AI has announced layoffs of 200 employees as part of organizational restructuring, with CEO Alexandr Wang citing rapid growth scaling challenges.

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The Verge7/16/2025

Google's Discover page now summarizes news with AI

Google is rolling out AI-generated summaries directly within Discover, its personalized news feed nestled within the Google Search app.

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TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year....

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

Google rolls out AI-powered business-calling feature, brings Gemini 2.5 Pro to AI Mode

The new business calling feature uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf, for information about availability and pricing....

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

Hugging Face bets on cute robots to bring open source AI to life

Just five days after opening up orders on its Reachy Mini robots, AI developer platform Hugging Face says it has logged $1 million worth of sales. That’s not a bad...

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

India eyes global quantum computer push — and QpiAI is its chosen vehicle

QpiAI, an Indian startup that integrates AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, has raised $32 million in a new funding round co-led by the Indian government....

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

Meta reportedly scores two more high-profile OpenAI researchers

OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will reportedly join Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab. Another team member, Hyung Won Chung, might also join Meta, as the company works to catch up to rivals...

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

Nvidia’s resumption of H20 chip sales related to rare-earth element trade talks

U.S. Commerce Secretary said Nvidia's plans to start selling its H20 chips are tied to ongoing trade discussions with China regarding REEs....

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI

The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company's technological advances....

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data labeling business

Scale AI is cutting 14% of the company just weeks after Meta invested $14.3 billion in the startup and hired away its CEO....

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data labelling business

Scale AI is cutting 14% of the company just weeks after Meta invested $14.3 billion in the startup and hired away its CEO....

TechCrunch AI7/16/2025

xAI is hiring an engineer to make anime girls

The company is hiring for the role of "Fullstack Engineer - Waifus," or, creating AI-powered anime girls for people to fall in love with....

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there

A senior engineer describes the thrill, chaos, and exhaustion of working at OpenAI this past year while launching its coding agent Codex....

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: The terminal

For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe-coding takes off, a...

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

The feature will appear on iOS and Android in the U.S., with a focus on trending lifestyle topics like sports and entertainment. Google also noted the feature will make it...

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content

The tech giant fixed the security flaw, netting a security researcher $10,000 for privately disclosing the bug....

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building...

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

The deal marks one of the largest seed rounds — or first funding rounds — in Silicon Valley history, representing the massive investor appetite to back promising new AI labs....

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model

French startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with Voxtral, its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives....

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Nextdoor redesigns app with AI recommendations, local news, and real-time emergency alerts

Neighborhood social app Nextdoor is launching a redesigned version of its service that it’s calling the “new Nextdoor.”...

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Nvidia is set to resume China chip sales after months of regulatory whiplash

Nvidia announced Monday that it’s filing applications to restart sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, capping a spasmodic few months that saw the Trump administration impose restrictions,...

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools

xAI's first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda....

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom

ParadeDB built a Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics on Postgres without the need to transfer data....

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

Research leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are urging tech companies and research groups to monitor AI's "thoughts."...

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston today — don’t miss what founders are learning

Today’s the day! TechCrunch All Stage is lighting up Boston’s SoWa Power Station at 7:30 a.m. ET sharp. The stages are set, the speakers are ready, and the startup community...

TechCrunch AI7/15/2025

xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses

xAI says it fixed the issue with Grok 4 where the model said its surname was "mechahitler."...

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2025

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf

The announcement comes just days after Google hired away Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $2.4 billion reverse-acquihire that left much of the startup's...

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Elon Musk’s Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl

Musk wrote in an X post on Monday that AI companions are now available in the Grok app for "Super Grok" subscribers who pay $30 per month....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on ‘unoriginal’ Facebook content

Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Malaysia will require trade permits for US AI chips

Malaysia is introducing new export restrictions on U.S. AI chips in an attempt to prevent these chips from being smuggled into China....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building out some massive data centers to power its AI ambitions and compete with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major...

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Prime Day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, GenAI traffic was up 3,300%

Amazon's Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase in retail traffic driven by generative AI products, including chatbots...

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Rainmaker partners with Atmo to squeeze more rain from clouds

Atmo will use its deep learning models to help Rainmaker identify clouds that have potential for seeding....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

The votes are in: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Audience Choice winners revealed for roundtables and breakouts

Meet the exceptional tech voices — and the sessions they’ll lead — that will shape the conversation at Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West....

TechCrunch AI7/14/2025

Tomorrow: TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston — and ticket prices rise

TechCrunch All Stage officially kicks off tomorrow at SoWa Power Station in Boston. This isn’t just another founder event. It’s the summit built to help startups fundraise smarter, scale faster,...

TechCrunch AI7/13/2025

Elon Musk’s SpaceX might invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI

One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another....

TechCrunch AI7/13/2025

Meta acquires voice startup Play AI

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices....

TechCrunch AI7/13/2025

Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots

Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately or even dangerously, according to researchers at Stanford University....

TechCrunch AI7/13/2025

The countdown’s almost over: 2 days until TechCrunch All Stage 2025 kicks off in Boston

TechCrunch All Stage 2025 is almost here — In 2 days, the doors swing open at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. If you’re a founder or investor, this is your last...

The Verge AI7/13/2025

xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain...

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar

A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues. 404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class...

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

Just 3 days left to save before TechCrunch All Stage 2025 lights up Boston

In only 3 days, founders, investors, and operators will flood into the SoWa Power Station in Boston for TechCrunch All Stage 2025 — and if you haven’t grabbed your pass...

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model indefinitely....

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar

A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues. 404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class...

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

Just 3 days left to save before TechCrunch All Stage 2025 lights up Boston

In only 3 days, founders, investors, and operators will flood into the SoWa Power Station in Boston for TechCrunch All Stage 2025 — and if you haven’t grabbed your pass...

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model indefinitely....

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the...

TechCrunch AI7/12/2025

xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows

Software engineer workflows have been transformed in recent years by an influx of AI coding tools. However, a new study calls into question the extent to which today's AI coding...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’

Devin won’t replace humans at the bank. Argenti advocates for a “hybrid” workforce, so instances of it will be supervised by a human and, he hopes, improve their productivity....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions

This raises real questions around how "maximally truth-seeking" Grok is designed to be, versus how much it's designed to just agree with Musk, the world's richest man....

The Verge AI7/11/2025

Grok searches for Elon Musk’s opinion before answering tough questions

The latest version of Grok — dubbed a “maximally truth-seeking” AI by owner Elon Musk — is answering controversial questions by first searching for what Musk has said on the...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

Helios, a startup aiming to build an AI-powered operating system for policy professionals, has raised $4 million in seed funding....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Hugging Face’s new robot is the Seinfeld of AI devices

Hugging Face’s new programmable Reachy Mini bots launched this week. The AI robots are open source, Raspberry Pi-powered, and come with cartoonish antennae and big googly eyes. They don’t do...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders for three days of bold ideas, groundbreaking tech, and...

The Verge AI7/11/2025

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees and bring them onto the...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology

RealSense is building vision tech that helps machines like robots and drones navigate and respond to a 3D world....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself

She appreciates how she can make fast decisions that don’t require committee approval. She’s also taken to using AI to help her throughout this journey....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows

Software engineer workflows have been transformed in recent years by an influx of AI coding tools. However, a new study calls into question the extent to which today's AI coding...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’

Devin won’t replace humans at the bank. Argenti advocates for a “hybrid” workforce, so instances of it will be supervised by a human and, he hopes, improve their productivity....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions

This raises real questions around how "maximally truth-seeking" Grok is designed to be, versus how much it's designed to just agree with Musk, the world's richest man....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

Helios, a startup aiming to build an AI-powered operating system for policy professionals, has raised $4 million in seed funding....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Hugging Face’s new robot is the Seinfeld of AI devices

Hugging Face’s new programmable Reachy Mini bots launched this week. The AI robots are open source, Raspberry Pi-powered, and come with cartoonish antennae and big googly eyes. They don’t do...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders for three days of bold ideas, groundbreaking tech, and...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology

RealSense is building vision tech that helps machines like robots and drones navigate and respond to a 3D world....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself

She appreciates how she can make fast decisions that don’t require committee approval. She’s also taken to using AI to help her throughout this journey....

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart

Article: Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart. Visit the source for full content....

The Verge AI7/11/2025

The unholy alliance that killed the AI moratorium

At 8AM last Monday, as he prepared for a third marathon day of covering the Senate's chaotic legislative battle over the Big Beautiful Bill, Steve Bannon's phone rang. It was...

TechCrunch AI7/11/2025

Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart

Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company....

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

5 days until TechCrunch All Stage — save up to $475 before prices rise

In just five days, startup leaders from across the country will descend on Boston’s SoWa Power Station for TechCrunch All Stage 2025 — and your chance to lock in the...

The Verge AI7/10/2025

A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta with a deceptive business practices claim because their AI chatbots allegedly listed Donald Trump last on a request...

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner

Amazon Web Services is launching an AI agent marketplace and Anthropic is one of its partners....

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger created a new benchmark to test for AI model's alignment with aspects of human flourishing....

The Verge AI7/10/2025

Gemini AI can now turn photos into videos

The feature is available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. Google just launched a new Gemini AI feature that lets you transform photos into video clips. The new photo-to-video...

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Google adds image-to-video generation capability to Veo 3

Google said on Thursday it's adding an image-to-video generation feature to its Veo 3 AI video generator through its Gemini app....

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles ‘next week,’ says Elon Musk

Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.”...

The Verge AI7/10/2025

Inside the AI startup frenzy: ‘Everyone’s pivoting, then pivoting again’

Welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, Deputy Editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. This is the first in a series of Thursday Decoder episodes that...

The Verge AI7/10/2025

Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought

Month after month, message after message, the AI engineer was hearing from Meta recruiters. The recruiters were pestering him to leave his employer and switch over to support the company's...

The Verge AI7/10/2025

Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown

Elon Musk’s live demo of Grok 4, the latest big-ticket model from his AI startup, began with high-intensity music, claims of a “ludicrous rate of progress,” and a lot of...

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Nvidia reportedly plans to release new AI chip designed for China

Nvidia plans to release a chip that is retrofitted from an existing Blackwell processor that was modified to meet chip export rules....

The Verge AI7/10/2025

OpenAI’s next big launch could be an AI web browser

OpenAI is planning to launch an AI web browser in the “coming weeks,” according to a report from Reuters. Sources tell the outlet that OpenAI could build its Operator AI...

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

5 days until TechCrunch All Stage — save up to $475 before prices rise

In just five days, startup leaders from across the country will descend on Boston’s SoWa Power Station for TechCrunch All Stage 2025 — and your chance to lock in the...

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner

Article: AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner. Visit the source for full content....

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger created a new benchmark to test for AI model's alignment with aspects of human flourishing....

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Google adds image-to-video generation capability to Veo 3

Google said on Thursday it's adding an image-to-video generation feature to its Veo 3 AI video generator through its Gemini app....

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles ‘next week,’ says Elon Musk

Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.”...

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Nvidia reportedly plans to release new AI chip designed for China

Nvidia plans to release a chip that is retrofitted from an existing Blackwell processor that was modified to meet chip export rules....

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Where AI meets design: Runway co-founder Alejandro Matamala Ortiz takes the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is the epicenter where 10,000+ startup and VC leaders gather to explore the future of innovation — and this year, two AI Stages bring the intersection of...

TechCrunch AI7/10/2025

Where AI meets design: Runway co-founder Alejandro Matamala Ortiz takes the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is the epicenter where 10,000+ startup and VC leaders gather to explore the future of innovation — and this year, two AI Stages bring the intersection of...

The Verge AI7/10/2025

YouTube ‘clarifies’ its plan to demonetize spammy AI slop

YouTube is trying to soothe concerns about an incoming update to its monetization policies following backlash from online creators. An announcement that YouTube would be updating restrictions around “inauthentic” content...

Meta Research5/17/2023

How generational differences affect consumer attitudes towards ads

Our research study, in collaboration with CrowdDNA, aims to understand people's relationship with social media ads across different social media platforms....

Meta Research4/17/2023

Every tree counts

Meta set a goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030. We are developing technology to mitigate our carbon footprint and making these openly available....

Meta Research4/14/2023

How a non-traditional background led to cutting-edge XR tech

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Meta Research4/13/2023

A new, unique AI dataset for animating amateur drawings

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Meta Research4/12/2023

How the metaverse can transform education

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Meta Research4/6/2023

Build faster with Buck2: Our open source build system

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Meta Research4/5/2023

Announcing the 2023 Meta Research PhD Fellowship award winners

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Meta Research4/5/2023

Introducing Segment Anything: Working toward the first foundation model for image segmentation

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Meta Research3/27/2023

Announcing the winners of the 2022 Foundational Integrity Research request for proposals

In September, Meta launched the Foundational Integrity Research request for proposals. Today, we announce the winners of this award....

Meta Research3/24/2023

Two meta sustainability grant and scholarship recipients share impact

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Microsoft AI Blog12/6/2022

A conversation with Kevin Scott: What’s next in AI

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Microsoft AI Blog10/12/2022

From Hot Wheels to handling content: How brands are using Microsoft AI to be more productive and imaginative

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Microsoft AI Blog10/6/2022

Microsoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkit

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Microsoft AI Blog7/25/2022

How data and AI will transform contact centres for financial services

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Microsoft AI Blog7/21/2022

AI-equipped drones study dolphins on the edge of extinction

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Microsoft AI Blog7/13/2022

Online math tutoring service uses AI to help boost students’ skills and confidence

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Microsoft AI Blog7/6/2022

AI-Mimi is building inclusive TV experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing user in Japan

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Microsoft AI Blog6/21/2022

Microsoft’s framework for building AI systems responsibly

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Microsoft AI Blog6/8/2022

Singapore develops Asia’s first AI-based mobile app for shark and ray fin identification to combat illegal wildlife trade

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Microsoft AI Blog5/31/2022

The opportunity at home – can AI drive innovation in personal assistant devices and sign language?

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