Trending News: Google 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’Prime Video tests AI dubbing for select movies and TV seriesRevenue prediction startup Gong surpasses $300M ARR, indicating potential IPO pathApple adds AI-powered app review summaries with iOS 18.4OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 AI model comes to more ChatGPT usersAnthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its websiteGoogle Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questionsAnna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficientlyAhead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 millionAI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning workApply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before time runs outGoogle’s Shopping tab has a new AI tool that takes your fashion idea and suggests similar clothingExperts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’GibberLink lets AI agents call each other in robo-languageU.K.’s competition authority says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t quality for investigationARM to sign $250M chip deal with MalaysiaCoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & BiasesCoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AIMeta brings its anti-fraud facial recognition test to the UK after getting a thumbs up from regulatorsQuantexa nabs $175M at a $2.6B valuation to double down on data analytics for AIJudge rejects Musk’s attempt to block OpenAI’s for-profit transitionKey ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright caseAmazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI groupGoogle still limits how Gemini answers political questionsAmazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ modelKlarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AIOpenAI chairman Bret Taylor lays out the bull case for AI agentsCohere claims its new Aya Vision AI model is best-in-classOpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic researchScrunch AI is helping companies stand out in AI searchLlamaIndex launches a cloud service for building unstructed data agentsMistral urges telcos to get into the hyperscaler gameTrump Administration cuts may threaten AI research effortsPeople are using Super Mario to benchmark AI nowSingapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglersYou can now talk to Google Gemini from your iPhone’s lock screenMWC hears two starkly divided views of AI’s impactThe author of SB 1047 introduces a new AI bill in CaliforniaTSMC pledges to spend $100B on US chip facilitiesTechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a text-to-speech model with more than 450 AI voicesGoogle releases SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to identify wildlifeNo part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGIGoogle upgrades Colab with an AI agent toolAnthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitionsT-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI phone’ priced at under $1KConan O’Brien comments on AI during his opening monologue at the OscarsChinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite U.S. export controlsJolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAIStability AI optimized its audio generation model to run on Arm chipsOpera unveils an AI agent that runs natively within the browserGoogle’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screenFlora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionalsApple might not release a truly ‘modernized’ Siri until 2027The TechCrunch AI glossaryLast chance! Last 24 hours to save up to $325 on TechCrunch Sessions: AIDeepSeek claims ‘theoretical’ profit margins of 545%2 days left to save up to $325 on TechCrunch Sessions: AI ticketsOpenAI’s startup empire: The companies backed by its venture fundWhat is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitorSymbyAI raises $2.1M seed to make science research easierSergey Brin says RTO is key to Google winning the AGI raceOpenAI plans to integrate Sora’s video generator into ChatGPTGoogle Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visualsMozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it’s not using people’s data for AIEvery year, it seems like there’s at least one big YC controversyLast week to apply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AITechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Final 24 hours to save up to $1,130Only 3 more days to save up to $325 at TechCrunch Sessions: AIOpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UKMeta is reportedly planning a standalone AI chatbot appSnowflake grows startup accelerator with $200M in new capitalOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’Figure will start ‘alpha testing’ its humanoid robot in the home in 2025TikTok sunsets its creator marketplace for TikTok One, a broader solution with AI toolsOpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ its largest AI model yetOpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is better at convincing other AIs to give it moneyMicrosoft Copilot gets a macOS appMeta’s new AR glasses for research can measure heart rateAI models trained on unsecured code become toxic, study findsWorkhelix taps years of research to help enterprises figure out where to apply AI
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Trending News: Google 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’Prime Video tests AI dubbing for select movies and TV seriesRevenue prediction startup Gong surpasses $300M ARR, indicating potential IPO pathApple adds AI-powered app review summaries with iOS 18.4OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 AI model comes to more ChatGPT usersAnthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its websiteGoogle Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questionsAnna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficientlyAhead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 millionAI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning workApply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before time runs outGoogle’s Shopping tab has a new AI tool that takes your fashion idea and suggests similar clothingExperts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’GibberLink lets AI agents call each other in robo-languageU.K.’s competition authority says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t quality for investigationARM to sign $250M chip deal with MalaysiaCoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & BiasesCoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AIMeta brings its anti-fraud facial recognition test to the UK after getting a thumbs up from regulatorsQuantexa nabs $175M at a $2.6B valuation to double down on data analytics for AIJudge rejects Musk’s attempt to block OpenAI’s for-profit transitionKey ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright caseAmazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI groupGoogle still limits how Gemini answers political questionsAmazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ modelKlarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AIOpenAI chairman Bret Taylor lays out the bull case for AI agentsCohere claims its new Aya Vision AI model is best-in-classOpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic researchScrunch AI is helping companies stand out in AI searchLlamaIndex launches a cloud service for building unstructed data agentsMistral urges telcos to get into the hyperscaler gameTrump Administration cuts may threaten AI research effortsPeople are using Super Mario to benchmark AI nowSingapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglersYou can now talk to Google Gemini from your iPhone’s lock screenMWC hears two starkly divided views of AI’s impactThe author of SB 1047 introduces a new AI bill in CaliforniaTSMC pledges to spend $100B on US chip facilitiesTechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a text-to-speech model with more than 450 AI voicesGoogle releases SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to identify wildlifeNo part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGIGoogle upgrades Colab with an AI agent toolAnthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitionsT-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI phone’ priced at under $1KConan O’Brien comments on AI during his opening monologue at the OscarsChinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite U.S. export controlsJolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAIStability AI optimized its audio generation model to run on Arm chipsOpera unveils an AI agent that runs natively within the browserGoogle’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screenFlora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionalsApple might not release a truly ‘modernized’ Siri until 2027The TechCrunch AI glossaryLast chance! Last 24 hours to save up to $325 on TechCrunch Sessions: AIDeepSeek claims ‘theoretical’ profit margins of 545%2 days left to save up to $325 on TechCrunch Sessions: AI ticketsOpenAI’s startup empire: The companies backed by its venture fundWhat is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitorSymbyAI raises $2.1M seed to make science research easierSergey Brin says RTO is key to Google winning the AGI raceOpenAI plans to integrate Sora’s video generator into ChatGPTGoogle Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visualsMozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it’s not using people’s data for AIEvery year, it seems like there’s at least one big YC controversyLast week to apply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AITechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Final 24 hours to save up to $1,130Only 3 more days to save up to $325 at TechCrunch Sessions: AIOpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UKMeta is reportedly planning a standalone AI chatbot appSnowflake grows startup accelerator with $200M in new capitalOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’Figure will start ‘alpha testing’ its humanoid robot in the home in 2025TikTok sunsets its creator marketplace for TikTok One, a broader solution with AI toolsOpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ its largest AI model yetOpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is better at convincing other AIs to give it moneyMicrosoft Copilot gets a macOS appMeta’s new AR glasses for research can measure heart rateAI models trained on unsecured code become toxic, study findsWorkhelix taps years of research to help enterprises figure out where to apply AI
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