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TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 28d ago
Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT
OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
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This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
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Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up…
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AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up…
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Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host
Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.
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Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.
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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.
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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
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In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFace has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
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Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
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Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.
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Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
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Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon
Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.
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OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
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