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Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding | TechCrunch

Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B...

AI

Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica | TechCrunch

Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design...

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip
AI

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show | TechCrunch

At the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, OpenAI shared a more detailed look at Jalapeño, including the first...

Matthias Petri and Andrey Styskin - Keenable
AI

Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents | TechCrunch

Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can’t spare the time or attention required to scan...

Thibault Sottiaux
AI

‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux | TechCrunch

Users of OpenAI’s software engineering tool Codex might know Thibault Sottiaux as the guy who resets their token...

Illustration representing a group of people conducting software QA testing. Shows gears in the background. Several small people with a magnifying glass and a checklist checking a large software interface.
AI

Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen | TechCrunch

Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade...

Commerce

Amazon Alexa can now alert you when something new might tempt you to shop | TechCrunch

Amazon continues to experiment with how AI can be used to improve the shopping experience, resulting in Tuesday’s...

The OpenAI logo appears on the screen of a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which the U.S. flag is projected.
AI

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok | TechCrunch

The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel...

Government & Policy

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’ | TechCrunch

David Lawrence was a Harvard Law student when an on-campus shooting involving a police officer sparked intense controversy...

A digitally generated image showing several AI chatbot assistants standing on a segmented or sliced floor surface, symbolizing the distributed and modular nature of artificial intelligence systems. This futuristic and conceptual design reflects the scalability, communication, and parallel functionality of AI-powered virtual assistants.
AI

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M | TechCrunch

Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As...