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But the outlook for 2025 is still awful.Less than a month left to claim your brand’s spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AI with an exhibit tableDeck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AICapsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brandsA dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topicsAMD estimates $800M charge on US license requirement for AI chipsHammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuationGoogle used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraudOpera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browserGrok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and appsNvidia H20 chip exports hit with license requirement by US governmentTelli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agentsOpenAI may ‘adjust’ its safeguards if rivals release ‘high-risk’ AIFigma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS businessOpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.aiWitness a dynamic dialogue between two visionary CEOsAnthropic’s Claude can now read your GmailGoogle’s Veo 2 video generating model comes to GeminiNotion releases an AI-powered email client for GmailFormer Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solutionOpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety reportOpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platformReach 1,000+ AI leaders: Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Sessions: AIApple details how it plans to improve its AI models by privately analyzing user dataRLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for roboticsDebates over AI benchmarking have reached PokémonGoogle’s newest AI model is designed to help study dolphin ‘speech’OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on codingOpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, from its APIGoogle Classroom gives teachers an AI feature for quiz questionsHugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startupMeta to start training its AI models on public content in the EUNvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the U.S.Access to future AI models in OpenAI’s API may require a verified IDOpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32BApple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ is ending with an updated Season 4 finaleThe xAI–X merger is a good deal — if you’re betting on Musk’s empireMeta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmarkThe most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright caseEx-OpenAI staffers file amicus brief opposing the company’s for-profit transitionChatGPT became the most downloaded app globally in MarchIreland’s data regulator investigates X’s use of European user data to train GrokMeta’s Llama drama and how Trump’s tariffs could hit moonshot projectsLess than a month to get your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AIOpenAI is winding down its GPT-4 AI model in ChatGPTHow Chef Robotics found success by turning away its original customersDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will eventually combine its Gemini and Veo AI modelsMira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for a massive $2B seed roundAI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study showsThe US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauceYouTube rolls out a free AI music-making tool for creatorsLiveKit’s tools power real-time communications, including OpenAI’s Voice ModeCanva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets and moreOpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chatsNetflix’s latest season of ‘Black Mirror’ comes with a mobile gameGoogle thinks AI can untangle the electrical grid’s bureaucracyAmazon CEO Andy Jassy urges companies to invest heavily in AIThe rise of AI ‘reasoning’ models is making benchmarking more expensiveIncident.io raises $62M at a $400M valuation to help IT teams move fast when things breakAI insurtech Ominimo bags its first investment at a $220M valuationElon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3Google says it’ll embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to dataOpenAI counter-sues, calls for Musk to be enjoined from ‘further unlawful and unfair action’Nvidia’s H20 AI chips may be spared from export controls — for nowIlya Sutskever taps Google Cloud to power his AI startup’s researchOpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarksSolve Intelligence raises fresh $12M to bring AI to IP, patent workflowsYouTube expands its ‘likeness’ detection technology, which detects AI fakes, to a handful of top creatorsMIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have valuesAnthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscriptionUS may fine TSMC $1B over chip allegedly used in Huawei AI processor WordPress.com launches a free AI-powered website builderArtisan, the ‘stop hiring humans’ AI agent startup, raises $25M – and is still hiring humans The complete agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: AI unveiledTessell snags $60M to drive data management at scaleReddit’s conversational AI search tool leverages Google GeminiGemini Code Assist, Google’s AI coding assistant, gets ‘agentic’ abilitiesGoogle’s enterprise cloud gets a music-generating AI modelGoogle’s newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficiencyIronwood is Google’s newest AI accelerator chipGoogle Workspace gets automation flows, podcast-style summariesSamsung adds Google’s Gemini to its home robot Ballie
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13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to

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