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When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off | TechCrunch

Zach Yadegari has enjoyed an immense amount of success for someone who only recently graduated from high school....

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the Facebook parent company Meta, takes the stage at the Meta Connect developer conference. Behind him is a personalized mascot of the AI assistant Muse.
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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs | TechCrunch

Meta has launched what it calls the “most capable” open-weight model in the United States. Dubbed Muse Spark...

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Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access | TechCrunch

Anthropic is giving employee-level access to six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, to...

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Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis | TechCrunch

Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini believe more efficient AI chip design could help solve the...

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Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt | TechCrunch

Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves...

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Deezer will soon let you filter out AI-generated music | TechCrunch

Streaming platform Deezer remains steadfast in its intent to help users avoid listening to AI-generated music: The company...

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Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace | TechCrunch

Many businesses around the world use consumer-facing chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord or iMessage to talk and...

Scimplify co-founder Sachin Santhosh
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Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI | TechCrunch

As manufacturers across industries strive to reduce their reliance on Chinese suppliers, Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25...

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Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home | TechCrunch

Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman believes we’re nearing a future where everyone will have an AI...

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Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks | TechCrunch

In most factories, automation is fixed: robots and machines are programmed for one specific task and product. Changing...