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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? 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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 AI2025 TechCrunch Events Calendar4 days left to save up to $325 at TechCrunch Sessions: AITechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Just 2 days left to save up to $1,130Unique, a Swiss AI platform for finance, raises $30MApple iPhone 16e review: An A18 chip and Apple Intelligence for $599Lonestar and Phison’s data center infrastructure is headed to the moonWith Alexa+, Amazon makes an intriguing play in the consumer agent spaceNvidia CEO Jensen Huang shrugs off DeepSeek as sales soarInception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI modelHow Gradient Ventures is Shaping the AI Startup Landscape with Eylul KayinElevenLabs is launching its own speech-to-text modelContinue wants to help developers create and share custom AI coding assistantsAlexa+ can read, summarize and recall lengthy documentsAmazon unveils a new and improved Alexa, Alexa+Oliver Cameron talks about going up against incumbents at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAmazon says that Alexa+ is ‘model agnostic’Amazon’s new Alexa+ brings AI-powered ‘Explore’ and ‘Stories’ features for kidsAlexa+ costs $19.99 or free for Prime members5 days left — save over $300 to TechCrunch Sessions: AITechCrunch Disrupt 2025: 3 days left to save up to $1,130 on passesNomagic picks up $44M for its AI-powered robotic armsFramework’s first desktop PC is optimized for gaming and local AI inferenceBridgetown Research raises $19M to speed up due diligence with AIRegie.ai injects sales enablement with AI, but keeps humans in the loopElevenLabs now lets authors create and publish audiobooks on its own platformPerplexity launches $50M seed and pre-seed VC fundAnthropic’s latest flagship AI might 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attendees aren’t buying Scale AI CEO’s push for America ‘to win the AI war’Chegg sues Google over AI search summariesAnthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you wantAnthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI modelPerplexity teases a web browser called CometGrok 3 appears to be driving Grok usage to new heightsCambium is building an AI that helps turn waste wood into usable lumberFlexport releases onslaught of AI tools in a move inspired by ‘founder mode’Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platformMeta AI arrives in the Middle East and Africa with support for ArabicApple commits $500B to US manufacturing, including a new AI server facility in HoustonGoogle’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per secondThis mental health chatbot aims to fill the counseling gap at understaffed schoolsGrok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and MuskDid xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?US AI Safety Institute could face big 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AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia

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Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 million in a new funding round led by Blackrock. Neuberger Berman, Type One Ventures, Cisco, KDDI and Samsung Catalyst Fund also participated. The tranche, which brings Groq’s total raised to over $1 billion and […]

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