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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.

Russell Brandom 1 month ago

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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

Lucas Ropek 1 month ago

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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.

Lauren Forristal 1 month ago

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Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

Lauren Forristal 1 month ago

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Figma acquires team behind a vibe coding app

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe coding platform and later built an agent creation product.

Ivan Mehta 1 month ago

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Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed. 

Rebecca Bellan 1 month ago

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X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green screen effects, and other editing tools.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund

Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.

Dominic-Madori Davis 1 month ago

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AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation

AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Kholsa Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion. 

Dominic-Madori Davis 1 month ago

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This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car

Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors.

Sean O'Kane 1 month ago

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Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites

The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."

Zack Whittaker 1 month ago

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Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.

Julie Bort 1 month ago

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The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

Forterra has deployed more than 100

Tim Fernholz 1 month ago

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Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.

A new report suggests Netflix viewers aren’t sticking around for Season 2. The bigger issue may be that binge-watching itself is no longer the advantage it once was.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's...

Connie Loizos 1 month ago

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US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom

SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multi-billion dollar US IPO, expected to take place on Friday.

Julie Bort 1 month ago

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

Russell Brandom 1 month ago

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You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

The new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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Amazon competitor Bookshop.org says Kobo e-reader support will happen this year after all

Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.

Julie Bort 1 month ago

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If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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Apple brings back card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after a four-year hiatus

Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's payments framework.

Jagmeet Singh 1 month ago

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Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

Amanda Silberling 1 month ago

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Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

Rebecca Bellan 1 month ago

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