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Trending News: LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100MMeta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI modelsJony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his companyTensions flare between the US and China over Huawei’s AI chipsGoogle is bringing ads to AI ModeAmazon rolls out short-form AI-powered audio product summaries for select itemsMistral’s new Devstral AI model was designed for codingTechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Early Bird savings end on May 25Shopify launches an AI-powered store builder as part of its latest updateGoogle’s AI agents will bring you the web nowUber Freight bets big on AI tools to grow its businessFortnite returns to the US App Store after a five-year gapGoogle’s Sergey Brin: ‘I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass’Google commits $150M to develop AI glasses with Warby ParkerThe latest Google Gemma AI model can run on phonesGoogle is launching a Gemini integration in ChromeGoogle AI Ultra: You’ll have to pay $249.99 per month for Google’s best AIVeo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with themGoogle introduces Shop with AI Mode with price tracking, agentic checkout and virtual try-onStitch is Google’s AI-powered tool to help design appsProject Astra comes to Google Search, Gemini, and developersIntel is reportedly exploring a sale for its networking and edge unitGoogle’s AI Mode rolls out to US, will add support for deeper research, comparison shopping, and moreGoogle’s Gemini AI app has 400M monthly active usersGoogle’s NotebookLM is getting Video OverviewsGoogle shows off Android XR-based glasses, announces Warby Parker team-upGoogle’s 3D teleconferencing platform, now called Beam, will ship later in 2025Google unveils new AI features coming to Gmail, Docs, and VidsGoogle updates the Gemini app with real-time AI video, Deep Research, and moreGoogle rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agentYou’ve got 6 days to save $900 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 ticketsApple reportedly plans to let developers build on top of its AITwelve Labs CEO Jae Lee is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AIAmazon’s Danielle Perszyk is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AIAgentic AI platform Manus launches a paid plan for teamsOnce worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of moneyGoogle DeepMind’s Logan Kilpatrick is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AIOpenAI’s Codex is part of a new cohort of agentic coding toolsAlation acquires Numbers Station to bolster its AI agent offeringsKlarna’s revenue per employee soars to nearly $1M thanks to AI efficiency pushJudge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to courtAMD strikes a deal to sell ZT Systems’ server-manufacturing business for $3BTrump to sign bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakesGoogle launches standalone NotebookLM app for AndroidxAI’s Grok 3 comes to Microsoft AzureMicrosoft open-sources a command-line text editor and more at BuildGitHub, Microsoft embrace Anthropic’s spec for connecting AI models to data sourcesDevs can now tap Microsoft Edge to power AI web appsNLWeb is Microsoft’s project to bring more chatbots to webpagesMicrosoft wants to tap AI to accelerate scientific discoveryAI dev tools for Windows get a fresh coat of paintClock’s ticking: Save up to $900 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets before prices riseEx-Siri head reportedly wanted Apple to choose Google’s Gemini over ChatGPTGrok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’U.S. lawmakers have concerns about Apple-Alibaba dealMicrosoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcastsMIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefitsEpic Games asks judge to force Apple to approve FortniteY Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employeesOpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than MonacoAI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market researchAI video startup 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at $5B valuationGrok is unpromptedly telling X users about South African ‘white genocide’OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPTSoundCloud backtracks on AI-related terms-of-use updatesOpenAI pledges to publish AI safety test results more oftenStability AI releases an audio-generating model that can run on smartphonesDeepMind claims its newest AI tool is a whiz at math and science problemsOpenAI may build data centers in the UAEGoogle’s Gemini chatbot can now more easily analyze GitHub projectsTensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twinsTensorWave raises $100M to grow its AMD-powered cloud infrastructureDatabricks to buy open-source database startup Neon for $1BGoogle tests replacing ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ with ‘AI Mode’Attend TechCrunch Sessions: AI with this new, limited-time discountxAI’s promised safety report is MIAAnthropic, Google score win by nabbing OpenAI-backed Harvey as a userAWS enters into ‘strategic partnership’ with Saudi 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Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training

President Donald Trump has fired Shira Perlmutter, who leads the U.S. Copyright Office. The firing was reported by CBS News and Politico, and seemingly confirmed by a statement from Representative Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the Committee for House Administration. “Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power […]

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