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Trending News: AI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 monthsCast AI raises $108M to get the max out of AI, Kubernetes and other workloadsOpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophanticMicrosoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AIMeta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAIFigure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokersStartups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app CluelyFreepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed dataOpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B timesMeta previews an API for its Llama AI modelsMeta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaConMeta launches a standalone AI app to compete with ChatGPTGoogle launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessonsGoogle’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languagesThe deadline to book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI is May 9Final 6 days: Save big and bring a plus-one for 50% off to TechCrunch Sessions: AIAnthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AINear Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphereYelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providersHere’s how to watch LlamaCon, Meta’s first AI developer eventA16z backs UK startup Dex to scale ‘AI talent agent’ and recruitment matchmakerGrouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groupsOpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversationsAlibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning modelsHugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT search with shopping featuresHuawei aims to take on Nvidia’s H100 with new AI chipGoogle shifts Android news to a virtual event ahead of its I/O developer conferenceFinal 7 days: Save $210 + 50% off a second ticket to TechCrunch Sessions: AILightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in productionEarly cancer detection startup Craif raises $22MWelcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbotsReport finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minorsGoogle’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionizeMusk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round everAnthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding toolAn OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card deniedGoogle’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by designChinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuationLast day to boost your brand and host a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAnthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research toolHow do you define cheating in the age of AI?Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ adsWithin six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200BOpenAI may be developing its own social platform, but who’s it for?OpenAI wants its ‘open’ AI model to call models in the cloud for helpPublic comments to White House on AI policy touch on copyright, tariffsChess.com reaches 200 million membersAnthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’Speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Applications now openDropbox adds new features to Dash, its AI-powered search toolThis tool estimates how much electricity your chatbot messages consumeAdobe releases new Firefly image generation models and a redesigned Firefly web appAdobe wants to create a robots.txt styled indicator for images used in AI trainingWindsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats upOpenAI seeks to make its upcoming open AI model best-in-classOpenAI’s GPT-4.1 may be less aligned than the company’s previous AI modelsDiscord appoints 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Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation

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