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Mikey Shulman, co-founder of Suno.
In Brief

AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned | TechCrunch

A cyberattack at AI music generator Suno last year allowed a hacker to steal the personal information of...

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AI

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking | TechCrunch

Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and, when the metrics...

In Brief

Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood | TechCrunch

While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an...

Inherent Labs co-founders
AI

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research | TechCrunch

Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger...

In Brief

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups | TechCrunch

Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with...

Claude AI app
AI

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat | TechCrunch

A change to Claude’s memory system will eliminate one of the most annoying things about using agents —...

Apple app store icon
Apps

Apple touts $1.4 trillion in App Store billings and sales, 90% without a commission | TechCrunch

Apple on Thursday offered its annual update on the state of the App Store ecosystem ahead of its...

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Security

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch

Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several...

Internet users in India looking at their smartphones
Government & Policy

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos | TechCrunch

India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users’ spam reports with...

The logo of the video game" Fortnite is displayed during the 'Paris Games Week' on October 25, 2018 in Paris, France.
In Brief

Australian court finds Apple, Google abused app store market power | TechCrunch

Epic Games has just secured a win in its crusade against Apple and Google’s app store policies: The...