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TechCrunch Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s No. 2 role

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected...

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TechCrunch OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, tha...

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TechCrunch OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop...

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TechCrunch Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can...

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TechCrunch Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.

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TechCabal South Africa-founded startup launches AI model with 10 million-token memory

After raiding $5 million in April, South-Africa founded AI startup, Refiant AI has launched a 10-million token model named Protea.

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TechCrunch Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the ki...

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TechCrunch Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups

In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facin...

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TechCrunch New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their...

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TechCrunch Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck

Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors.

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TechCrunch FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem

The video call highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.

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TechCrunch Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation

A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.

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TechCrunch Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally alt...

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TechCrunch Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia

The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the h...

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TechCrunch How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."

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TechCrunch Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos

Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public...

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TechCrunch Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly...

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TechCabal Why Nigeria’s telemedicine sector is growing again

When we put together the first State of Health Tech report in 2018, one sector led overwhelmingly. Startups trying to help patient...

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TechCabal JéGO, GoCab strike deal to put 6,000 EVs on West African roads

The deal comes as Africa's EV market grows but remains limited by two problems: financing and charging. Much of the region's elect...

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TechCrunch Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simp...

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TechCrunch Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe

State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like protection...

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TechCrunch Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI

Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now de...

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TechCrunch Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits

Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000.

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