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Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
AI | The Verge
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it hand
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Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
AI | The Verge
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of vir
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The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
AI | The Verge
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a subscriber, you can get on board here.) We're back after a two-week hiatus, during most of which I was gallivanting in
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Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
AI | The Verge
If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to trai
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Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns
AI | The Verge
Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it's already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 for employees because of Anthropic's new data retention requirements. While Microso
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Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
AI | The Verge
Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting. That includes the images you search for with Googl
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Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The decision comes as India emerges as the world’s largest GCC market.
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
If you doubted his genius, doubt no more.
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xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
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Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.
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‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.
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How memory tools can make AI models worse
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.
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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.
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Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
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The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX’s unbelievable IPO
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.
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Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.
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Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
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Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.
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Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.
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Siri AI arrives with Google inside, and much of the world is locked out
AI News
“We’ve all had that moment where you search for something you know is there, but it just won’t show up.” Apple’s Stacey Ford, vice president of OS Program Management, was talking about Spotlight at WWDC 2026, but she could have been describing the company’s AI ambitions. On Mond
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McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system
AI News
McDonald’s is testing a new AI system that can take drive-thru orders and support restaurant operations. The system, called ArchIQ and nicknamed “Archy,” was introduced during the company’s Worldwide convention, according to Restaurant Business. It is being tested at five McDonal
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