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Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return
AI | The Verge
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow to users globally on Claude platforms, and that the company would re-ena
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Google’s NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip
AI | The Verge
Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example sh
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Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show
AI | The Verge
A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fictional torture scenarios. While the sets seen in the trailer are real and not som
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Libby will filter out AI content, kind of
AI | The Verge
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. "AI is the new frontier for us," says Marc DeBevoise, who took over as the new CEO of OverDrive last week. OverDriv
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Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twice
AI | The Verge
Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt's questions we
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The “Father of the Internet” is finally retiring
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.
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Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.
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Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.
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OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.
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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
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Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
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Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
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Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.
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Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.
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X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.
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Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.
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Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
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Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.
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Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
OKX is bringing together payments, identity, and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.
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