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Trending News: OpenAI and Microsoft’s ‘frenemies relationship,’ and what you missed at SXSWSoftBank buys $676M old Sharp plant for its OpenAI collab in JapanSesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI modelGoogle calls for weakened copyright and export rules in AI policy proposalOpenAI calls for US government to codify ‘fair use’ for AI trainingXbox debuts a new AI-powered gaming companion for mobile users5 ways TechCrunch Sessions: AI will fuel your AI growthOpenAI’s ‘creative writing’ AI evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction clubGoogle wants Gemini to get to know you betterOpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ modelsGoogle introduces new developer tools and titles for games on mobile and PCUiPath is looking for a path to growth in agentic AI with its Peak.ai acquisitionSkich launches an alternative app store on iOS in the EUBria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed dataSingapore grants bail for Nvidia chip smugglers in alleged $390M fraudAs Intel welcomes a new CEO, a look at where the company standsAnthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robotsNvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s showHow to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynoteBrowser User, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viralSnap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative modelMoonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed contentSakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than thatDapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agentsWhy Onyx thinks its open source solution will win enterprise searchWolf Games, backed by ‘Law & Order’ creator, uses AI to create murder mystery gamesPentera nabs $60M at a $1B+ valuation to build simulated network attacks to train security teamsMeta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in FrancePokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5BSalesforce to invest $1B in Singapore to boost adoption of AIElea AI is chasing the healthcare productivity opportunity by targeting pathology labs’ legacy systemsGoogle has given Anthropic more funding than previously known, show new filingsMeta is reportedly testing in-house chips for AI trainingIBM’s CEO doesn’t think AI will replace programmers anytime soonOpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writingYet another AI robotics firm lands major funding, as Dexterity closes latest roundFlower Labs’ launches a new service that automatically switches from local to cloud AIHugging Face expands its LeRobot platform with training data for self-driving machinesMark Cuban says AI is ‘never the answer,’ it’s a ‘tool’OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agentsEU AI Act: Latest draft Code for AI model makers tiptoes towards gentler guidance for Big AILearn what VCs want to see from founders at TechCrunch Sessions: AISola emerges from stealth with $30M to build the ‘Stripe for security’Radiology AI software provider Gleamer expands into MRI with two small acquisitionsIn another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeaveDeepSeek isn’t taking VC money yet. Here’s 3 reasons why.Poolside CEO says most companies shouldn’t build foundation modelsGmail gains an ‘Add to calendar’ button, powered by GeminiConsumer Reports finds popular voice cloning tools lack safeguardsHere’s your chance to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAvatarOS snags $7M seed round from M13 to build an AI-powered virtual influencer platformMicrosoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for CopilotSupercharge your brand visibility with an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025Showcase your innovation — exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AINirvana keeps on truckin’ with $80M at a $830M valuation for its AI-powered insuranceServiceNow to buy Moveworks for $2.85B to grow its AI portfolioManus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’Tammy Nam joins AI-powered ad startup Creatopy as CEOMusk may still have a chance to thwart OpenAI’s for-profit conversionApple’s smart home hub reportedly delayed by Siri challengesNew DOJ proposal still calls for Google to divest Chrome, but allows for AI investmentsJudge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forwardGoogle scrubs mentions of ‘diversity’ and ‘equity’ from responsible AI team webpage9 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2025Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector boomsUS lawmakers have already introduce hundreds of AI bills in 2025Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issuesSXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention toMicrosoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAISXSW 2025 live coverage: AI takes center stageAI-powered ‘more personalized Siri’ is delayedElon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires one-million-square-foot property in MemphisGoogle debuts a new Gemini-based text embedding modelHealth expert warns of leaning too heavily on AI for social connectionsGoogle adds a Gemini panel to Calendar to help you manage your scheduleThe California AI bill is back…and it lost its teethRussian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot resultsMeta’s next Llama models may have upgraded voice featuresLast day to apply to be a TechCrunch Sessions: AI speakerX now lets you query Grok by mentioning it in repliesGoogle co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startupScale AI is being investigated by the US Department of LaborAnthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systemsHugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releasesChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit codeChristie’s AI art auction reportedly exceeds expectationsIntangible AI, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M Mistral’s new OCR API turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown fileOpenAI’s ex-policy lead criticizes the company for ‘rewriting’ its AI safety historyFaireez raises $7.5M for AI-powered hotel-style housekeeping for condo residentsDuckDuckGo leans further into GenAI as its AI chat interface exits betaGoogle DeepMind, Cohere, and Twelve Labs explain how founders can build with their AI models at TechCrunch Sessions: AICrogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analystsA year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning toolTuring, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuationAnthropic submits AI policy recommendations to the White HouseA quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generatedEric Schmidt argues against a ‘Manhattan Project for AGI’
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Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model

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AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions. Called CSM-1B, the model generates “RVQ audio codes” from text […]

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