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Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address | TechCrunch

Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature that...

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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign? | TechCrunch

The adoption of AI tools by businesses slowed in August, according to spending data at 70,000 companies collected...

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the...

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Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal | TechCrunch

Google Cloud and Accenture are working together on a joint unit dedicated to sending engineers into enterprises to...

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Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business | TechCrunch

French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a...

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Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know | TechCrunch

AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how...

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Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement | TechCrunch

Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails...

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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them | TechCrunch

OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took...

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Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge | TechCrunch

A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German...

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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers | TechCrunch

On August 4, Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., noticed something strange going...