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Apple sues OpenAI: 400 ex-Apple staff, a hardware chief, and an IPO at stake — Inblix summary
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Apple sues OpenAI: 400 ex-Apple staff, a hardware chief, and an IPO at stake

TechCrunch AI · Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read

Apple dropped a trade secrets lawsuit on OpenAI last Friday, and the details are genuinely messy. The complaint doesn't...

Apple sues OpenAI: 400+ ex-employees and an IPO cloud — Inblix summary
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Apple sues OpenAI: 400+ ex-employees and an IPO cloud

TechCrunch AI · Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read

Apple dropped a trade secrets lawsuit on OpenAI last Friday that reads less like a legal formality and more like a decl...

Patreon moves from asking nicely to actively blocking AI scrapers — Inblix summary
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Patreon moves from asking nicely to actively blocking AI scrapers

TechCrunch AI · Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read

The era of politely asking AI crawlers to back off is over for Patreon. The membership platform has stopped relying sol...

Startup Uses Inference Chips as Collateral for $400M Loan — Inblix summary
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Startup Uses Inference Chips as Collateral for $400M Loan

TechCrunch AI · Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read

General Compute, a fledgling AI infrastructure company, just secured a $400 million loan from tech investment firm Uppe...

Apple Intelligence Clears China With Alibaba and Baidu Deals — Inblix summary
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Apple Intelligence Clears China With Alibaba and Baidu Deals

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

The wait is over—sort of. Apple Intelligence finally got the green light from Beijing's internet regulator, the Cybersp...

Moonshot's 3T-parameter Kimi K3 aims straight at Opus — Inblix summary
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Moonshot's 3T-parameter Kimi K3 aims straight at Opus

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read

The open-source arms race just got a lot more interesting. Moonshot AI, one of China's most aggressive model builders,...

Yann LeCun’s World Model Startup Won't Say AGI—or Superintelligence — Inblix summary
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Yann LeCun’s World Model Startup Won't Say AGI—or Superintelligence

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read

Alexandre LeBrun is done with the buzzwords. The CEO of AMI Labs, the world model startup launched by Meta’s chief AI s...

DoorDash Launches CLI Tool to Let AI Agents Order Your Lunch — Inblix summary
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DoorDash Launches CLI Tool to Let AI Agents Order Your Lunch

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read

The punchline from an old XKCD comic just became a product feature. DoorDash has introduced a limited beta of dd-cli, a...

Ex-DeepMind researcher raises $55M seed round at $300M valuation for visual AI — Inblix summary
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Ex-DeepMind researcher raises $55M seed round at $300M valuation for visual AI

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

Andrew Dai spent a decade at Google DeepMind working on research that would later inform systems like ChatGPT. But when...

OpenAI wants you to ball for $70, but who’s buying it? — Inblix summary
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OpenAI wants you to ball for $70, but who’s buying it?

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI quietly expanded beyond software this week, and it isn't just the $230 macro keyboard making headlines. Tucked i...

Roblox lets anyone build games by typing text, and developers are worried — Inblix summary
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Roblox lets anyone build games by typing text, and developers are worried

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

Roblox is handing the keys to game creation over to anyone with a phone and an idea. The company announced Build, a new...

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos — Inblix summary
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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

Google is betting that even after OpenAI benched Sora, people still want to put themselves into AI-generated video. On...

Google's AI Mode now shops, designs, and DJs via apps — Inblix summary
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Google's AI Mode now shops, designs, and DJs via apps

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

Google just turned AI Mode from a question-answerer into a task-doer. The company announced Thursday that users can now...

Applied Computing raises $20M to help oil refineries use the 92% of data they ignore — Inblix summary
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Applied Computing raises $20M to help oil refineries use the 92% of data they ignore

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

The energy industry has a dirty secret: refineries and petrochemical plants make operating decisions using less than 8%...

OpenAI's $230 keyboard is a flashy distraction from its real hardware play — Inblix summary
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OpenAI's $230 keyboard is a flashy distraction from its real hardware play

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI just dipped its toes into hardware with the Codex Micro, a $230 keyboard built with boutique designer Work Loude...

SpaceX stock sinks back to IPO price after $86B debut — Inblix summary
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SpaceX stock sinks back to IPO price after $86B debut

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

The post-IPO hangover has officially arrived for SpaceX. Shares of the rocket company dipped to just above $135 on Wedn...

Microsoft tells sales team to trash OpenAI and Anthropic — Inblix summary
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Microsoft tells sales team to trash OpenAI and Anthropic

TechCrunch AI · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read

The honeymoon is officially over. In a striking pivot, Microsoft executives are now coaching their sales force to direc...

Ex-Snap ML engineer's app Reelful wants AI to edit your Reels — Inblix summary
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Ex-Snap ML engineer's app Reelful wants AI to edit your Reels

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Kate Deyneka spent years building video and image models at Snapchat. Now she's betting that the same people who find t...

Anthropic's $1.5B bet: AI deployment, not better models, is the prize — Inblix summary
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Anthropic's $1.5B bet: AI deployment, not better models, is the prize

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Anthropic's joint venture, Ode, just got a name and a $1.5 billion war chest. The AI implementation firm, launched in M...

Ode's bet: 10 engineers can replace 200 consultants — Inblix summary
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Ode's bet: 10 engineers can replace 200 consultants

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

The graveyard of enterprise AI pilots is overflowing, and Chris Taylor thinks he knows exactly why. Sitting down with T...

Apple Intelligence Lands in China, Powered by Alibaba's Qwen — Inblix summary
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Apple Intelligence Lands in China, Powered by Alibaba's Qwen

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Apple's generative AI play has finally found a dance partner in China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that the Cyberspa...

Microsoft patches record 570 flaws after AI uncovers hidden bugs — Inblix summary
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Microsoft patches record 570 flaws after AI uncovers hidden bugs

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Microsoft dropped its largest-ever Patch Tuesday this week, shipping fixes for a staggering 570 security vulnerabilitie...

Whatnot buys Shaped to fix live shopping's speed problem — Inblix summary
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Whatnot buys Shaped to fix live shopping's speed problem

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Live commerce has a discovery problem that traditional e-commerce never faced. When auctions close in minutes and inven...

Suno Hack Leaks Source Code, Exposes Years of Alleged Music Scraping — Inblix summary
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Suno Hack Leaks Source Code, Exposes Years of Alleged Music Scraping

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

A breach at AI music generator Suno has spilled more than just customer data. According to a 404 Media report, a hacker...