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Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”

Tech Crunch AI

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

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

Tech Crunch AI

The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and bec...

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OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit

Tech Crunch AI

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

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

Tech Crunch AI

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

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From: today

Helping AI models to meet the real world

MIT Profile

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

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

Tech Crunch AI

If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to i...

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Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out

Tech Crunch AI

Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt — which leans into criticism of AI as a way to make Anthropic seem aware ...

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

Tech Crunch AI

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

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From: today

Lucid Motors denies report it’s considering bankruptcy

Tech Crunch Transportation

The company said the "rumors are completely false" after its stock sank more than 50% on a report that it was weighing the option.

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Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers

Tech Crunch AI

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.

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Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering

MIT Classes and programs

MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace systems.

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From: yesterday

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

Tech Crunch AI

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.

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DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO

Tech Crunch Startups

DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is said to be preparing for a 2027 IPO debut as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at a $71 billion valuation.

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

Tech Crunch AI

Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face ...

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YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps

Ai News Culture

A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

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From: yesterday

Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery

Tech Crunch AI

Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.

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New York State halts construction of all new data centers

Tech Crunch AI

New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity co...

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Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says

Tech Crunch Security

The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war.

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I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)

Tech Crunch Hardware

The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable -- but its fitness tracking and headache detection features are disappointing.

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From: yesterday

Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius

Tech Crunch AI

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.

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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier

Tech Crunch AI

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open ...

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Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension

Tech Crunch Apps

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that shortlinks to the messaging app had "stopped working."

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

Tech Crunch AI

Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.

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From: yesterday

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

Tech Crunch AI

Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing.

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