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Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe | TechCrunch

Apple revealed in a regulatory filing that it has reached an agreement to bring on team members and...

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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages  | TechCrunch

Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person....

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Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead | TechCrunch

Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies, and it...

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An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police | TechCrunch

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police.The AI reportedly...

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Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust? | TechCrunch

Loading the player…Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following...

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We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we? | TechCrunch

In a tan polo shirt, brown leather belt, and round bolo tie, MIT PhD student Wil Norton kind...

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A16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI | TechCrunch

I wrote this week about the bleak economics of consumer AI – but where some see a crisis,...

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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect | TechCrunch

Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published...

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Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed | TechCrunch

They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret...

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Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses | TechCrunch

At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic...