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Trending News: 5 days left to claim your exhibitor table for TechCrunch All Stage Major record labels are reportedly in licensing talks with AI firms Udio and Suno3 days until the doors open at TechCrunch Sessions: AI at UC BerkeleyDay 5 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Test your knowledge, win big ticketsSamsung may incorporate Perplexity’s AI tech in its phonesFor the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-workerEarly AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollupsSam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’4 days to go: TechCrunch Sessions: AI is almost in sessionDay 4 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Flex your brain, score big on ticketsVideo game union announces first contract with MicrosoftNAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessmentsSerious About AI? The conversations that count start in 5 days at TechCrunch Sessions: AIGoogle quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locallyDay 3 of the TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Your next shot at winning bigIt’s not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of changeElon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the ‘find out’ stageTechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Ready to test your AI knowledge?Your last opportunity to vote on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 agenda lineupGemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt outJust 6 days left — ready for some unfiltered AI truths at TechCrunch Sessions: AI?Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it’s now 2024Inside the AI revolution: Top insights and breakthroughs from our partners at TechCrunch Sessions: AIGrammarly secures $1B in non-dilutive funding from General CatalystBlack Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate themHugging Face unveils two new humanoid robotsDelaware AG reportedly hires a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring planPerplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and moreDeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPUDeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test findsThe New York Times and Amazon ink AI licensing deal7 days until doors open at TechCrunch Sessions: AIMeta AI now has 1B monthly active usersBuildots raises $45M to help companies track construction progressNVIDIA, AMD may soon start selling new AI chips in China to comply with US restrictionsGameStop bought $500 million of bitcoinNvidia expects to lose billions in revenue due to H20 chip licensing requirementsOdyssey’s new AI model streams 3D interactive worldsDeepSeek updates its R1 reasoning AI model, releases it on Hugging FaceAMD buys silicon photonics startup Enosemi to fuel its AI ambitionsNetflix co-founder Reed Hastings joins Anthropic’s boardGoogle Photos debuts redesigned editor with new AI toolsWhy export restrictions aren’t the only thing to pay attention to in Nvidia’s earningsRillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AIContext gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suiteMicrosoft starts testing Copilot for Gaming in Xbox app for iOS and AndroidHelp shape TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Vote for your favorite sessionsWith iOS 19 on the way, Apple looks toward mobile gamingxAI to invest $300M in Telegram, integrate Grok into appHow small businesses can actually benefit from agentic AI, with Tkxel CEO Umair Javed at TechCrunch Sessions: AIHow to seize the opportunity and compete with an incumbent, with Linear COO Cristina Cordova at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAtomic Canyon wants to be ChatGPT for the nuclear industryOpera’s new browser can code websites and games for youHumain planning $10B VC fund to invest in US, European and Asian startupsOpenAI may soon let you ‘sign in with ChatGPT’ for other appsAnthropic launches a voice mode for ClaudeMeta reportedly 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a fight with GrokMicrosoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and moreOpenAI goes all in with Jony Ive as Google plays AI catchupAt TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Artemis Seaford and Ion Stoica confront the ethical crisis — when AI crosses the lineTick tock: Just 3 days left to save up to $900 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 passFounders First: Iliana Quinonez of Google Cloud on AI agents, infrastructure, and democratization at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAfter Klarna, Zoom’s CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly callAnthropic CEO claims AI models hallucinate less than humansAnthropic’s latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emojiA safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI modelAnthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offlineAnthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many stepsMeta adds another 650 MW of solar power to its AI pushVercel debuts an AI model optimized for web developmentOpenAI teams up with Cisco, Oracle to build UAE data centerThe complete Side Events lineup at TechCrunch Sessions: AI4 days left: Up to $900 off your ticket and 90% off for your +1 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025OpenAI’s next big bet won’t be a wearable: reportKlarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings, it saidLM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100MMeta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI modelsJony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his companyTensions flare between the US and China over Huawei’s AI chipsGoogle is bringing ads to AI ModeAmazon rolls out short-form AI-powered audio product summaries for select itemsMistral’s new Devstral AI model was designed for codingTechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Early Bird savings end on May 25Shopify launches an AI-powered store builder as part of its latest updateGoogle’s AI agents will bring you the web now
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Nvidia’s AI avatar sat on my computer screen and weirded me out

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Nvidia unveiled a prototype AI avatar at CES 2025 that lives on your PC’s desktop. The AI assistant, R2X, looks like a video game character, and it can help you navigate apps on your computer. The R2X avatar is rendered and animated using Nvidia’s AI models, and users can run the avatar on popular LLMs […]

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