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AI

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale | TechCrunch

Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI...

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Hardware

The iPhone just had its best quarter ever | TechCrunch

Apple had a great Q1, though iPhone sales were the real standout. The company reports that its signature...

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AI

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus? | TechCrunch

OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable...

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In Brief

Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up | TechCrunch

Apple, Meta, and Google are locked in a fierce battle to lead the next wave of AI, and...

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AI

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how...

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In Brief

Apple hires iPhone camera app Halide’s co-founder for its design team | TechCrunch

Sebastiaan de With, the co-founder of Lux, which makes iPhone photo and video apps like Halide and Kino,...

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Media & Entertainment

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents | TechCrunch

Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more...

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Apps

Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November | TechCrunch

Creator platform Patreon is taking issue with Apple’s new mandate that forces all creators to move to a...

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AI

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor | TechCrunch

AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm....

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Apps

With Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it | TechCrunch

Generative AI apps that can create photos, videos, songs, and more are growing in popularity. But with the...