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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago

The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago

Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support

Amazon sent emails to customers inviting them to test Alexa+

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago

SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago

The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26

Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November 4 in Boston. Register here.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 8d ago

When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?

On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 8d ago

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 9d ago

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 9d ago

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 9d ago

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity…

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago

The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity…

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be comprised of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal…

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago

Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).

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