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changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its contentAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plansNorth America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environmentHugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBookKlarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer serviceReddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training dataSnap launches Lens Studio iOS and web apps for creating AR Lenses with AI and simple toolsAMD takes aim at Nvidia’s AI hardware dominance with Brium acquisitionUnity CTO Steve Collins steps down after six monthsGoogle delays rollout of its ‘Ask Photos’ AI search featureChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and moreRosebud lands $6M to scale its interactive AI journaling appMistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral CodeTechCrunch Sessions: AI begins tomorrow — today’s your last chance to save on ticketsObvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe driversFinal hours for TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — play now, score 2-for-1 ticketsOne 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 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Sun. Jun 8th, 2025

This Week in AI: Companies are growing skeptical of AI’s ROI

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Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, Gartner released a report suggesting that around a third of generative AI projects in the enterprise will be abandoned after the proof-of-concept phase by year-end 2025. The reasons are many — poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating infrastructure costs and so on. […]

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