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Bringing Value Models Back: Generative Critics for Value Modeling in LLM Reinforcement Learning8h◆Subagents vs Agent Skills: Executing Reusable Knowledge for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks8h◆Distribution-Consistent Inference for Dynamic Sparse Mixture-of-Experts8h◆In RAG We Trust? Measuring Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Under Document Poisoning8h◆FrontierChallenge: Evaluating Scientific Workflow Completion8h◆IBIB: A Protocol for Measuring Enterprise AI Systems by Serving Route, Not Model Identifier8h◆AgenticGen: Reward-Guided Agentic Video Generation for Advertising8h◆Strangers to Themselves: What Language Models Say About Themselves Is Generic8h◆Omni Interaction Agent Technical Report8h◆CoGReV: A Confidence-Gated Post-Hoc Non-Monotonic Belief Revision Framework for Phishing Website Classification8h◆Bit-Flip Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models: Action-Decoding Architecture Shapes the Vulnerability8h◆Can Foundation Models Moderate Online Content? Evaluating Instruction- vs. Example-Driven Policy Operationalization8h◆RiLM: Parameter-Efficient Language Modeling via Geodesic Decoding8h◆Tracing Computation Density in LLMs8h◆Cultural Binding Heads in Language Models8h◆Direct Diversity Optimization for Diverse Successful Trajectories in Preference Post-Training8h◆Left-Branching Transformers Excel at Right-Branching Languages: Data Shapes Word Order Preferences in Language Models8h◆Palmyra x6 Technical Report: An Agentic, Tool-Use Model Post-Trained via Anchored Supervised Fine-Tuning8h◆'Ghaib in Translation' aka Unseen Harm: Measuring Cross-Script Safety Inconsistency with 'Missed-in-Urdu' Scores in LLM Hate Speech Detection8h◆DexterSQL: Deep Schema Exploration and Rule-based Correction for Text-to-SQL Generation8h◆Bringing Value Models Back: Generative Critics for Value Modeling in LLM Reinforcement Learning8h◆Subagents vs Agent Skills: Executing Reusable Knowledge for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks8h◆Distribution-Consistent Inference for Dynamic Sparse Mixture-of-Experts8h◆In RAG We Trust? Measuring Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Under Document Poisoning8h◆FrontierChallenge: Evaluating Scientific Workflow Completion8h◆IBIB: A Protocol for Measuring Enterprise AI Systems by Serving Route, Not Model Identifier8h◆AgenticGen: Reward-Guided Agentic Video Generation for Advertising8h◆Strangers to Themselves: What Language Models Say About Themselves Is Generic8h◆Omni Interaction Agent Technical Report8h◆CoGReV: A Confidence-Gated Post-Hoc Non-Monotonic Belief Revision Framework for Phishing Website Classification8h◆Bit-Flip Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models: Action-Decoding Architecture Shapes the Vulnerability8h◆Can Foundation Models Moderate Online Content? Evaluating Instruction- vs. Example-Driven Policy Operationalization8h◆RiLM: Parameter-Efficient Language Modeling via Geodesic Decoding8h◆Tracing Computation Density in LLMs8h◆Cultural Binding Heads in Language Models8h◆Direct Diversity Optimization for Diverse Successful Trajectories in Preference Post-Training8h◆Left-Branching Transformers Excel at Right-Branching Languages: Data Shapes Word Order Preferences in Language Models8h◆Palmyra x6 Technical Report: An Agentic, Tool-Use Model Post-Trained via Anchored Supervised Fine-Tuning8h◆'Ghaib in Translation' aka Unseen Harm: Measuring Cross-Script Safety Inconsistency with 'Missed-in-Urdu' Scores in LLM Hate Speech Detection8h◆DexterSQL: Deep Schema Exploration and Rule-based Correction for Text-to-SQL Generation8h◆
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techcrunch14h ago

Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

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techcrunch14h ago

Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

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techcrunch15h ago

OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

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techcrunch15h ago

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

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techcrunch16h ago

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

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techcrunch18h ago

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

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techcrunch18h ago

India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

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techcrunch21h ago

AI agents are flooding public services with new requests

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.

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techcrunch21h ago

Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

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techcrunch1d ago

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

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techcrunch1d ago

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

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techcrunch1d ago

Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

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techcrunch1d ago

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

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techcrunch1d ago

Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch

The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

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techcrunch1d ago

The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI

Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.

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techcrunch1d ago

Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score

The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.

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techcrunch1d ago

Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop

Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.

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techcrunch1d ago

Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.

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techcrunch1d ago

Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these sy

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techcrunch1d ago

ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these sy

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techcrunch1d ago

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.

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techcrunch1d ago

‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.

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techcrunch1d ago

Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant

Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.

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techcrunch1d ago

AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

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techcrunch1d ago

Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.

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techcrunch1d ago

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

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techcrunch1d ago

Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the key precursors for advanced semiconductors by taking advantage of the vacuum of space.

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techcrunch2d ago

Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

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techcrunch2d ago

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

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techcrunch2d ago

Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

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techcrunch2d ago

Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.

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techcrunch2d ago

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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techcrunch2d ago

Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.

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techcrunch2d ago

Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.

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techcrunch2d ago

Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.

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techcrunch3d ago

Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

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techcrunch4d ago

Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

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techcrunch4d ago

Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business

The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."

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techcrunch5d ago

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

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techcrunch5d ago

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."

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techcrunch5d ago

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.

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techcrunch6d ago

XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

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techcrunch6d ago

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

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techcrunch6d ago

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

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techcrunch6d ago

What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, t

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techcrunch6d ago

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

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techcrunch6d ago

Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, t

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techcrunch6d ago

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

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techcrunch6d ago

Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event

Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes tonight at midnight PT.

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techcrunchSep 4

The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.

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techcrunchSep 4

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.

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techcrunchSep 3

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.

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techcrunchSep 3

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.

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techcrunchSep 3

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future models by sharing their prompts and model outputs.

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techcrunchSep 3

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."

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techcrunchSep 3

Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.

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techcrunchSep 3

Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.

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techcrunchSep 3

Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

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techcrunchSep 2

The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

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techcrunchSep 2

Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

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techcrunchSep 2

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

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techcrunchSep 2

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

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techcrunchSep 2

Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.

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techcrunchSep 2

We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.

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techcrunchSep 2

US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material

"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.

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techcrunchSep 2

Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months

Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.

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techcrunchSep 2

India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs

Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.

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techcrunchSep 2

HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments

Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use.

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techcrunchSep 2

PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam

Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.

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techcrunchSep 2

Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo

This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023

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techcrunchSep 2

OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting

Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed.

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techcrunchSep 1

AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B

AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.

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techcrunchSep 1

OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

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techcrunchSep 1

Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more

While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others specifically leverage Gemini to provide various improvements.

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techcrunchSep 1

Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive

Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.

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techcrunchSep 1

Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.

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techcrunchSep 1

ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data

OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.

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techcrunchSep 1

Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.

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techcrunchSep 1

Amazon Alexa can now alert you when something new might tempt you to shop

Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.

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techcrunchSep 1

AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use

AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.

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techcrunchSep 1

Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families

Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.

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techcrunchSep 1

Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

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techcrunchAug 31

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok

Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

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techcrunchAug 31

Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles

As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.

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techcrunchAug 31

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’

Blue Voice is trained on department-specific laws, local ordinances, protocols, and guidelines that general-purpose AI tools can't access on the public internet.

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techcrunchAug 31

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.

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techcrunchAug 31

Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.

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techcrunchAug 31

Meeting note-taker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month.

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techcrunchAug 31

The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

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techcrunchAug 30

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

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techcrunchAug 30

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

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techcrunchAug 29

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

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techcrunchAug 29

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.

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techcrunchAug 29

‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared dat

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techcrunchAug 29

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

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techcrunchAug 28

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

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techcrunchAug 28

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

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techcrunchAug 28

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

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techcrunchAug 28

Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.

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techcrunchAug 28

Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

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