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VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more1h◆Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication3h◆The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid4h◆Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant5h◆Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?5h◆Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs6h◆Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies8h◆VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue9h◆Build specialized multimodal models with LFM39h◆Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?10h◆Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay10h◆Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering10h◆Firefox’s Smart Window adds AI form filling and webpage monitoring10h◆Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel?10h◆Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences11h◆Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls12h◆Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace12h◆Apple is adding an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers13h◆Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data13h◆General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative14h◆VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more1h◆Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication3h◆The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid4h◆Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant5h◆Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?5h◆Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs6h◆Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies8h◆VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue9h◆Build specialized multimodal models with LFM39h◆Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?10h◆Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay10h◆Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering10h◆Firefox’s Smart Window adds AI form filling and webpage monitoring10h◆Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel?10h◆Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences11h◆Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls12h◆Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace12h◆Apple is adding an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers13h◆Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data13h◆General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative14h◆
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techcrunch1h ago

VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

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techcrunch3h ago

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

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techcrunch4h ago

The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

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techcrunch5h ago

Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.

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techcrunch5h ago

Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.

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techcrunch8h ago

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

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techcrunch10h ago

Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.

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techcrunch10h ago

Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering

Genie 4 can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, and offers better physics and more humanlike characters.

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techcrunch12h ago

Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

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techcrunch13h ago

Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data

Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.

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techcrunch14h ago

General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative

General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

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techcrunch14h ago

Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

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techcrunch16h ago

Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

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techcrunch1d ago

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

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techcrunch1d ago

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

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techcrunch1d ago

Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked

Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.

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techcrunch1d ago

SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt markets.

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techcrunch1d ago

Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

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techcrunch2d ago

Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

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techcrunch2d ago

AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says

"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."

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techcrunch2d ago

The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

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techcrunch3d ago

Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."

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techcrunch3d ago

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

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techcrunch3d ago

Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems from the conversational data it has.

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techcrunch3d ago

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

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techcrunch3d ago

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

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techcrunch4d ago

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing ‘significant risks’

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

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techcrunch4d ago

Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.

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techcrunch4d ago

From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs

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techcrunch4d ago

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia

The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.

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techcrunch5d ago

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

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techcrunch5d ago

OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

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techcrunch5d ago

1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

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techcrunch5d ago

Canva releases its first image generation model

Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

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techcrunch5d ago

OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

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techcrunch5d ago

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

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techcrunch5d ago

Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

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techcrunch5d ago

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

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techcrunch5d ago

Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.

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techcrunch5d ago

Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents

Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users.

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techcrunch5d ago

Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you

Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.

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techcrunch5d ago

DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions

DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.

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techcrunch6d ago

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.

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techcrunch6d ago

Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.

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techcrunch6d ago

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.

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techcrunch6d ago

Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity

Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during its Q3 earnings call. The AI app now has over 10M users.

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techcrunch6d ago

Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.

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techcrunch6d ago

While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat

As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.

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techcrunch6d ago

PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.

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techcrunch6d ago

Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C

Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.

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techcrunch6d ago

AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now

More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.

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techcrunchOct 20

Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.

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techcrunchOct 20

Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.

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techcrunchOct 20

Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

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techcrunchOct 20

SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX hit profitability in the third quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

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techcrunchOct 20

OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

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techcrunchOct 20

Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

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techcrunchOct 20

ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats

The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.

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techcrunchOct 20

Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei

Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger.

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techcrunchOct 20

Meta’s Muse hits 10M US downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps

New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.

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techcrunchOct 20

Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’

It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.

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techcrunchOct 20

Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.

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techcrunchOct 20

Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol

Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data.

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techcrunchOct 20

US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems

The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.

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techcrunchOct 20

Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking up a wide range of objects, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.

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techcrunchOct 20

Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant

Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.

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techcrunchOct 20

Otter AI raises $320M from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation.

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techcrunchOct 20

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

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techcrunchOct 19

Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal

If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.

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techcrunchOct 19

Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of their technology.

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techcrunchOct 19

Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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techcrunchOct 19

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.

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techcrunchOct 19

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.

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techcrunchOct 19

Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.

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techcrunchOct 19

Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

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techcrunchOct 19

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

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techcrunchOct 19

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

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techcrunchOct 19

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

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techcrunchOct 19

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 in San Francisco.

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techcrunchOct 18

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.”

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techcrunchOct 18

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce

The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.

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techcrunchOct 17

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

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techcrunchOct 17

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

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techcrunchOct 17

Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer partnering with Anthropic.

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techcrunchOct 16

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

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techcrunchOct 16

An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who beli

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techcrunchOct 16

Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who beli

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techcrunchOct 16

Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them

According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

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techcrunchOct 16

Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever

The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

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techcrunchOct 16

Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy

Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."

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techcrunchOct 16

Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.

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techcrunchOct 16

Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.

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techcrunchOct 15

When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off

The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

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techcrunchOct 15

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

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techcrunchOct 15

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

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techcrunchOct 15

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

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techcrunchOct 15

Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.

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techcrunchOct 15

Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends October 16

Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Bring your toughest questions and make the day count for your business.

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techcrunchOct 15

AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.

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techcrunchOct 15

Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US

The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.

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