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Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunch

Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI,...

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Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  | TechCrunch

AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and...

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI | TechCrunch

Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter...

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The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus | TechCrunch

When it first happens to you, you think you’re crazy. You wander into a cafe and look at...

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Meta Platforms Inc. debuted its first pair of augmented reality glasses, devices that show a combined view of the digital and physical worlds, a key step in Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's goal of one day offering a hands-free alternative to the smartphone. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model | TechCrunch

Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve...

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Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race | TechCrunch

For an AI assistant to become truly useful, it first has to know a lot about you. Ollie,...

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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella | TechCrunch

Scientists at Google DeepMind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that...

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Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion | TechCrunch

After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals  | TechCrunch

At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a...

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OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside...