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Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20

Tech Crunch Startups

If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.

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Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator

Tech Crunch AI

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.

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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

Ai News Gear

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company

Ai News Business / Artificial Intelligence

Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.

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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Tech Crunch AI

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.

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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Tech Crunch AI

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

Tech Crunch AI

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.

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Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Tech Crunch Gadgets

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

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Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app

Tech Crunch Apps

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.

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How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications

MIT Research

A USAF cadet and a Lincoln Laboratory researcher found AI chatbots can help nontechnical service members produce viable software applications for their unique problems.

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Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others

Tech Crunch Media & Entertainment

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.

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Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far

Tech Crunch Security

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026....

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From: today

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Tech Crunch AI

With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed. 

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From: yesterday

Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone

Ai News Gear

Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.

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From: yesterday

X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

Tech Crunch Apps

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other editing tools.

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From: yesterday

Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund

Tech Crunch Venture

Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.

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From: yesterday

Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science

MIT Leadership

The professor of physics and inaugural director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions will lead LNS and continue his research in particle physics.

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AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation

Tech Crunch Fundraising

AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion. 

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From: yesterday

This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car

Tech Crunch Fundraising

Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors.

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From: yesterday

Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites

Tech Crunch Security

The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."

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From: yesterday

These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras

Ai News Gear

You can clip a cover over the cameras, which could be a double-edged sword.

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Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

Tech Crunch Startups

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.

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Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI

Ai News Culture

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI.

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British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit

Ai News Science

The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave.

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