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Trending News: One of Africa’s most successful founders is back with a new AI startup and already raised $9MWindsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI modelsAnthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversightThe OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movieYoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety labInside TechCrunch Sessions AI: Learn how Toyota and NLX use AI to parse millions of tech docs, with NLX CEO Andrei PapanceaDeepSeek may have used Google’s Gemini to train its latest modelDay 6 of 7: TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — flex your brain, score 2-for-1 tickets4 days left: Time — and space — are almost up to exhibit at TechCrunch All StageWispr Flow releases iOS app in a bid to make dictation feel effortlessJust 2 days until TechCrunch Sessions: AI at UC Berkeley — where the future of AI takes shapeConsole raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AIMicrosoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generatorFormer DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg co-leads $15.5M Series A for AI video ad platformChatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feedsDigg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI eraSnowflake to acquire database startup Crunchy DataSalesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiringIBM acquires data analysis startup Seek AI, opens AI accelerator in NYCHow AI chatbots keep you chatting5 days left to claim your exhibitor table for TechCrunch All Stage Major record labels are reportedly in licensing talks with AI firms Udio and Suno3 days until the doors open at TechCrunch Sessions: AI at UC BerkeleyDay 5 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Test your knowledge, win big ticketsSamsung may incorporate Perplexity’s AI tech in its phonesFor the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-workerEarly AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollupsSam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’4 days to go: TechCrunch Sessions: AI is almost in sessionDay 4 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Flex your brain, score big on ticketsVideo game union announces first contract with MicrosoftNAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessmentsSerious About AI? The conversations that count start in 5 days at TechCrunch Sessions: AIGoogle quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locallyDay 3 of the TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Your next shot at winning bigIt’s not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of changeElon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the ‘find out’ stageTechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Ready to test your AI knowledge?Your last opportunity to vote on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 agenda lineupGemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt outJust 6 days left — ready for some unfiltered AI truths at TechCrunch Sessions: AI?Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it’s now 2024Inside the AI revolution: Top insights and breakthroughs from our partners at TechCrunch Sessions: AIGrammarly secures $1B in non-dilutive funding from General CatalystBlack Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate themHugging Face unveils two new humanoid robotsDelaware AG reportedly hires a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring planPerplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and moreDeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPUDeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test findsThe New York Times and Amazon ink AI licensing deal7 days until doors open at TechCrunch Sessions: AIMeta AI now has 1B monthly active usersBuildots raises $45M to help companies track construction progressNVIDIA, AMD may soon start selling new AI chips in China to comply with US restrictionsGameStop bought $500 million of bitcoinNvidia expects to lose billions in revenue due to H20 chip licensing requirementsOdyssey’s new AI model streams 3D interactive worldsDeepSeek updates its R1 reasoning AI model, releases it on Hugging FaceAMD buys silicon photonics startup Enosemi to fuel its AI ambitionsNetflix co-founder Reed Hastings joins Anthropic’s boardGoogle Photos debuts redesigned editor with new AI toolsWhy export restrictions aren’t the only thing to pay attention to in Nvidia’s earningsRillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AIContext gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suiteMicrosoft starts testing Copilot for Gaming in Xbox app for iOS and AndroidHelp shape TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Vote for your favorite sessionsWith iOS 19 on the way, Apple looks toward mobile gamingxAI to invest $300M in Telegram, integrate Grok into appHow small businesses can actually benefit from agentic AI, with Tkxel CEO Umair Javed at TechCrunch Sessions: AIHow to seize the opportunity and compete with an incumbent, with Linear COO Cristina Cordova at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAtomic Canyon wants to be ChatGPT for the nuclear industryOpera’s new browser can code websites and games for youHumain planning $10B VC fund to invest in US, European and Asian startupsOpenAI may soon let you ‘sign in with ChatGPT’ for other appsAnthropic launches a voice mode for ClaudeMeta reportedly splits its AI team to build products fasterWordPress has formed an AI teamAI may already be shrinking entry-level jobs in tech, new research suggestsSalesforce acquires Informatica for $8 billionBuilding with OpenAI: Hao Sang takes the stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI to share what startups need to get rightTwo more heavy hitters join StrictlyVC’s star-studded lineup in Menlo ParkOne of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of modelsWhy landing your first tech job is way harder than you expectedVote for the sessions you want to see at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025Why Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological stateLast 24 hours: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Early Bird Deals will fly away after today48 hours left: What you won’t want to miss at the 20th TechCrunch Disrupt in OctoberKhosla Ventures among VCs experimenting with AI-infused roll-ups of mature companiesOpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agentMarjorie Taylor Greene picked a fight with GrokMicrosoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and moreOpenAI goes all in with Jony Ive as Google plays AI catchupAt TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Artemis Seaford and Ion Stoica confront the ethical crisis — when AI crosses the lineTick tock: Just 3 days left to save up to $900 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 passFounders First: Iliana Quinonez of Google Cloud on AI agents, infrastructure, and democratization at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAfter Klarna, Zoom’s CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly callAnthropic CEO claims AI models hallucinate less than humansAnthropic’s latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emoji
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