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In Brief

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code | TechCrunch

China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to...

AI

Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans | TechCrunch

As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code...

Parker Conrad, CEO at Rippling talks with Mary Ann Azevedo talk about "Going Global" at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 20, 2022. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch
Startups

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders | TechCrunch

On Wednesday night, Runlayer and Rippling dropped their respective lawsuits against each other. No settlement was made. No...

Marc Benioff
Enterprise

Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear | TechCrunch

A new AI model called Koa is one of the biggest announcements from Salesforce this week at its...

Roelof Botha
Space

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors | TechCrunch

Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after...

John Ternus
Hardware

Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield | TechCrunch

Over his 15-year reign as Apple’s top banana, Tim Cook has become instantly recognizable, powerful beyond imagination, and...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
In Brief

Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too | TechCrunch

Correction: An earlier version of this piece identified the phone Jensen Huang used to take President Trump’s call...

Venture

NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI | TechCrunch

Loading the player…Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to...

Hohlraum contains the fuel pellet for inertial confinement fusion
AI

Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast | TechCrunch

Fusion startup Inertia Enterprises said it has found a way to cut the time it takes to make...

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AI

Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate | TechCrunch

Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched the DeepMind Institute on Wednesday to advance the conversation around artificial general...