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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in...

Lorde says AI glasses are ‘not sexy’

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real,"...

OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their...

OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit

OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit....

OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data...

Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta

If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta,...

Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out

Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI...

The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone

Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides...

Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted...

DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to...

Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer

Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending...

Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery

Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of...

New York State halts construction of all new data centers

New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data...

Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was...

The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost,...

Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant

Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat...

Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies

Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that...

Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again

They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining...

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be ‘everything for everyone’

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial services ambitions,...

Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B

With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach...

Nokia’s AI-RAN platform: a radio comeback that runs on NVIDIA

Nokia’s AI-RAN platform arrived on July 15 with a claim worth examining: that it is the...

AWS and Bluesight build AI for hospital 340B compliance

AWS (Amazon Web Services) has explained how Bluesight developed Prism, an AI layer that...

AI agent crawlers now need permission. Here’s how to get it

AI agent crawlers, the bots that fetch pages in real time on behalf of...

How to shrink the token budget without shrinking the team

Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it...

AWS GraphRAG deployment cuts drug research cycles by 87%

A recent AWS GraphRAG deployment reduced drug research and development cycles in pharmaceutical environments...

NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive womb cancer checks

Several NHS hospitals are preparing to use an AI-powered blood test to help assess...

Insilico Medicine advances AI drug for IPF to Phase III trials

Insilico Medicine is advancing to Phase III human trials for testing a drug identified...

L’Oreal, Mondelez, and Nestle use AI to speed product development

L’Oreal is using AI to shorten product development timelines and identify new uses for...

China’s AI companion rules: what Beijing is really going after

An AI companion sounds dystopian, but it has become a common thread in the...

Takeda signs $600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico

Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI...

NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life...

Deploying retail AI to scale personalisation and customer insight

Optimising retail AI infrastructure drives the successful deployment of personalisation systems and real-time customer...