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Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells) | TechCrunch

Now that LLM-generated prose is everywhere, human beings are eager for ways to sniff it out. While early...

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Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web | TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services released an open-source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev, with AI developers increasingly seeking intelligence...

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Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI | TechCrunch

Shopify introduced a new site-building tool Thursday called Canvas that lets merchants set up their Shopify store by...

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Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system | TechCrunch

Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step...

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Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents | TechCrunch

The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it...

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Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses | TechCrunch

Hearing tech startupLegato announced on Thursday that its flagship AI-based hearing glasses are now available for purchase. The...

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Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites | TechCrunch

The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming.The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in...

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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet | TechCrunch

Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety...

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OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents | TechCrunch

One of the more intriguing announcements at OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday came in an aside from...

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The ugly economics of consumer AI | TechCrunch

After this week, you could argue that consumer AI is making a comeback. Meta’s personal AI assistant, Muse, and...