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How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos

Tech Crunch AI

Meta's new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos unless you opt out. Here's how to do that.

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Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

Tech Crunch AI

The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.

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Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

Tech Crunch AI

Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the side...

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The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers

Ai News Gear

The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.

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Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT Research

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

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Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe

Tech Crunch Apps

State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like protections, including advanced fraud detection.

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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI

Tech Crunch AI

Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.

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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits

Tech Crunch AI

Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000.

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Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

Tech Crunch AI

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Tech Crunch AI

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Tech Crunch AI

Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.

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The $28 Million Mistake That Inspired Estonia’s AI ‘Fuckup Finder’

Ai News Politics

A single wording mistake cost the government millions. Now Estonia is using AI to spot legal errors before they become law—and to automate more of the state.

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From: yesterday

Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules

Tech Crunch Apps

The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.

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Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC settlement

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.

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Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B

Tech Crunch AI

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

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Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

Tech Crunch Transportation

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."

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Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game

Ai News Business

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.

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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

Tech Crunch AI

Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.

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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

Tech Crunch Startups

Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. One of the beneficiaries is QuantumDiamonds, a German startup that ap...

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I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You

Ai News Business

Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.

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Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

Tech Crunch Transportation

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

Tech Crunch AI

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

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‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

Tech Crunch Apps

This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.

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This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

Tech Crunch AI

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.

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