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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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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google | TechCrunch

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking...

Popular AI virtual assistant apps on an Apple iPhone: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Poe.
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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...

Mira Murati, chief executive officer of Thinking Machines Lab
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Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation | TechCrunch

Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded early last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in discussions...

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...