From: today

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

Tech Crunch AI

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.

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From: today

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Tech Crunch AI

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.

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From: today

Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation

Tech Crunch Security

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.

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From: today

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

Ai News Business

The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.

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Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Tech Crunch AI

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

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From: today

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

Tech Crunch AI

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

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From: today

Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

Tech Crunch Security

A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real life ...

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From: today

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

Tech Crunch Apps

Zoom will show a badge on verified participants' tile.

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From: today

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder

Ai News Business

Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?

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From: today

Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

Tech Crunch Apps

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.

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From: today

Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why

Tech Crunch Robotics

The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.

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From: today

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

Ai News Business

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

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From: today

Uber will now pick up your returns from your doorstep

Tech Crunch Apps

The new returns feature is the company's latest effort to become an everything app.

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From: today

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

Tech Crunch AI

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. 

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From: yesterday

Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby

Tech Crunch Apps

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

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From: yesterday

With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in Ap...

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From: yesterday

Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

MIT Awards, honors and fellowships

The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.

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From: yesterday

Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages

Tech Crunch Security

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET on April 15.

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From: yesterday

Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations

Tech Crunch Media & Entertainment

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations.

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From: yesterday

Loop raises $95M to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions

Tech Crunch Fundraising

The San Francisco startup closed a Series C funding round led by Antonio Gracias' firm Valor, which is a major backer of xAI.

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From: yesterday

SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news

Tech Crunch Apps

Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators and journalists.

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From: yesterday

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

Tech Crunch AI

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps ...

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From: yesterday

Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere

MIT Startups

Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering.

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From: yesterday

New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets

Tech Crunch Venture

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.

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