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Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
AI | The Verge
xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in m
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Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo
AI | The Verge
We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. On Monday, the company announced the open-source Treblo AI Music Classi
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Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
AI | The Verge
Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to l
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SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
AI | The Verge
Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents com
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Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
AI | The Verge
Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later t
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Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
AI | The Verge
Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight
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Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
AI | The Verge
Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access to Assistant on Android phones and tablets, along with paired devices like smartwatches or headphones, from September 4t
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Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague
AI | The Verge
The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models - meaning anyone can download them and ins
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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
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Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
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MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
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