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Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic
AI

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent? | TechCrunch

In a lengthy essay published over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a proposal that the AI...

Cursor
In Brief

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition | TechCrunch

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on the Cursor...

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears Orion augmented reality (AR) glasses 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
In Brief

After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera | TechCrunch

Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses have proven more successful than other entrants into the market, but they have also...

Epic Games/Loci
Gaming

Epic Games acquires Loci to introduce automated 3D tagging | TechCrunch

Epic Games announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Loci, an AI platform for automated tagging 3D assets. The...

The Chrome logo displays on a screen with a person holding a phone.
Security

Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI | TechCrunch

With help from its internal AI tools, Google says it has patched more security flaws in its Chrome...

Modern data center with racks of cabinets and colored lights.
AI

AI labs want in-house auditors — but maybe they should shut the front door first | TechCrunch

Last weekend, after one of his researchers resigned over fears that AI could lead to human extinction, Anthropic...

Okta lobby
Security

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M | TechCrunch

Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI...

Kog CEO Gaël Dellalleau at AMD AI Dev Day
AI

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs | TechCrunch

The race for faster AI inference is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips a warm...

AI

Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices | TechCrunch

Smart home owners will soon be able to control their devices connected to Google Home via an AI...

The Hugging Face logo appears on the screen of a smartphone.
Security

In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable | TechCrunch

Earlier this month, AI dataset platform Hugging Face shocked the world when it revealed that it had fallen...