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AI

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how...

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In Brief

Apple hires iPhone camera app Halide’s co-founder for its design team | TechCrunch

Sebastiaan de With, the co-founder of Lux, which makes iPhone photo and video apps like Halide and Kino,...

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Media & Entertainment

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents | TechCrunch

Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more...

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Apps

Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November | TechCrunch

Creator platform Patreon is taking issue with Apple’s new mandate that forces all creators to move to a...

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AI

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor | TechCrunch

AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm....

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Apps

With Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it | TechCrunch

Generative AI apps that can create photos, videos, songs, and more are growing in popularity. But with the...

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In Brief

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI | TechCrunch

Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft...

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Security

Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops | TechCrunch

Apple has provided federal agents with the real identities of at least two customers who used one of...

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In Brief

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model | TechCrunch

Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the...

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Security

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware | TechCrunch

Almost four years after launching a security feature called Lockdown Mode, Apple says it has yet to see...