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Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
AI | The Verge
Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water consumption and energy use a focus of new AI data center constr
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Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
AI | The Verge
Anthropic has apologized for stealthily throttling its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, with hidden guardrails that undermine both researchers and rivals using it to develop competing systems. The company says it is reversing course and will be more transparent about when the restri
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Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services
AI | The Verge
Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of the big streaming services to start labeling AI-generated music. It even offered its tech to other platforms, but it doesn't seem like it had many buyers. Qobuz
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Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
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Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
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SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.
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SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, lengthy payout delays, and the risk of outright fraud.
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Deezer’s new tool can identify AI music from Spotify, Apple Music, and others
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Deezer introduced a tool that scans playlists from Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms to identify AI music.
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Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Pool's new app automatically sorts screenshots into personalized collections, tracks down the original links behind saved content, and helps you rediscover products, recipes, travel ideas, and other things you meant to revisit.
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DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
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Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing
AI News
Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will now process user prompts, evalua
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Xebia: Why AI agents fail without the right data foundation
AI News
If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI scales on data strength, as Niels Zeilemaker, global CTO at Xebia, explains. “If yo
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