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Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
AI | The Verge
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing i
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VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
AI | The Verge
In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the
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Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay
AI | The Verge
Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater ris
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Firefox’s Smart Window adds AI form filling and webpage monitoring
AI | The Verge
Mozilla is updating Smart Window - Firefox's AI-powered browsing experience - with a new feature that can help you fill out online forms based on your open tabs. As an example, Mozilla says Smart Window can pull information from your online portfolio or LinkedIn page to paste you
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Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences
AI | The Verge
Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio,
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Apple is adding an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers
AI | The Verge
Apple is bringing an AI assistant to its suite of productivity apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant, which is built on AI models from Apple and OpenAI, can understand a document's context to perform tasks like designing, animating, and refining slides in Key
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Data center backlash is uniting America
AI | The Verge
If there's one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it's data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities - and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them - has sparked local opposition in communities across th
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VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
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Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
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The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
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Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.
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Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.
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Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
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Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.
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Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Genie 4 can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, and offers better physics and more humanlike characters.
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Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
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Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.
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Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
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General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.
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Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
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