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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weight AI that knows when it's guessing — Inblix summary
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weight AI that knows when it's guessing

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Mira Murati's new startup just showed its cards, and they're not what you'd expect from a former OpenAI CTO. Thinking M...

SpaceX dips below IPO price as Musk's grand vision hits turbulence — Inblix summary
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SpaceX dips below IPO price as Musk's grand vision hits turbulence

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

SpaceX shares slipped below their $135 IPO price on Wednesday, dipping under $133 before clawing back to the break-even...

Vint Cerf Joins DNS Startup to Solve AI's Agent Identity Crisis — Inblix summary
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Vint Cerf Joins DNS Startup to Solve AI's Agent Identity Crisis

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Vint Cerf, the man who co-designed the internet's fundamental protocols, isn't spending his post-Google life on a beach...

Rime raises $24M to build voice AI that doesn't sound like a robot — Inblix summary
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Rime raises $24M to build voice AI that doesn't sound like a robot

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

The enterprise voice AI space is getting crowded, but San Francisco-based Rime just landed $24 million in Series A fund...

Emergent hits $1.5B valuation as AI coding gold rush intensifies — Inblix summary
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Emergent hits $1.5B valuation as AI coding gold rush intensifies

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Another massive check just landed in the AI coding arena. Emergent, a startup barely a year old, has closed a $130 mill...

OpenAI reportedly building an AI companion speaker, not a phone — Inblix summary
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OpenAI reportedly building an AI companion speaker, not a phone

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read

OpenAI's long-rumored hardware ambitions are finally taking a concrete shape, and it's not a smartphone. Bloomberg repo...

Anthropic's graveyard ad proves even AI safety leaders can fumble the pitch — Inblix summary
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Anthropic's graveyard ad proves even AI safety leaders can fumble the pitch

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read

Anthropic just learned a hard lesson about the gap between ethical branding and just creeping people out. The company's...

Hinge Founder's New Company Ditches Swiping for AI Voice Intros — Inblix summary
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Hinge Founder's New Company Ditches Swiping for AI Voice Intros

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Justin McLeod, the guy who built Hinge into a billion-dollar acquisition, thinks dating apps are broken. Less than a ye...

Apple's AI Siri hits public beta—its biggest test yet — Inblix summary
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Apple's AI Siri hits public beta—its biggest test yet

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read

Apple just dropped the iOS 27 public beta, and with it, the most ambitious Siri overhaul in the assistant's history is...

OpenAI to Apple: Show Us the Evidence in Trade Secret War — Inblix summary
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OpenAI to Apple: Show Us the Evidence in Trade Secret War

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI is punching back against a bombshell lawsuit from Apple, flatly stating it isn't aware of any evidence that the...

GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting user files and databases on its own — Inblix summary
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GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting user files and databases on its own

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, is racking up alarming reports from developers who say it unilaterally delete...

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang exits to build $200M drug discovery startup — Inblix summary
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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang exits to build $200M drug discovery startup

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Miles Wang, a researcher who joined OpenAI in 2024 after dropping out of Harvard, is leaving to launch his own AI drug...

Lorde to Ray-Ban Meta Glasses: 'Not Sexy. Don't Get Them.' — Inblix summary
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Lorde to Ray-Ban Meta Glasses: 'Not Sexy. Don't Get Them.'

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Some celebrity endorsements are worth less than the paper they're printed on, but an organic, profane takedown from a f...

Superhuman's AI can now write your emails, and 60% of users aren't touching them — Inblix summary
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Superhuman's AI can now write your emails, and 60% of users aren't touching them

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

The promise of AI tackling your inbox has always felt more aspirational than practical—until maybe now. Superhuman is r...

Spotify's new AI lets you argue with the app about what to play next — Inblix summary
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Spotify's new AI lets you argue with the app about what to play next

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Spotify is no longer content with just recommending songs. Starting Tuesday, the company is rolling out an interactive...

Open models now handle 41% of AI downloads, edging out U.S. giants — Inblix summary
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Open models now handle 41% of AI downloads, edging out U.S. giants

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

While the industry obsessed over Anthropic's frontier models and Washington's export controls this summer, the real act...

Reflection AI inks $1B Nebius deal as open model compute wars heat up — Inblix summary
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Reflection AI inks $1B Nebius deal as open model compute wars heat up

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

The race to secure raw computing power just got a lot more expensive. Reflection AI, the two-year-old startup founded b...

New York freezes all large data center permits in US first — Inblix summary
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New York freezes all large data center permits in US first

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

New York just did what no other state has managed: it slammed the brakes on big data center construction. Governor Kath...

Google Images turns into a Pinterest clone with AI boost — Inblix summary
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Google Images turns into a Pinterest clone with AI boost

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Google is ripping a page straight from Pinterest's playbook. The search giant is rolling out a dramatic redesign of Goo...

Meta's Mosseri: AI token costs may soon rival engineer salaries — Inblix summary
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Meta's Mosseri: AI token costs may soon rival engineer salaries

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri dropped a sobering prediction on Lenny's Podcast: within a year or two, an engineer's AI t...

Publishers sue Google, cite internal memo warning of $100B in AI fines — Inblix summary
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Publishers sue Google, cite internal memo warning of $100B in AI fines

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

A heavyweight coalition of publishers and authors—including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and novelist Scott Turow—has d...

DeepMind CEO pushes FINRA-style AI regulator to end ad hoc reviews — Inblix summary
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DeepMind CEO pushes FINRA-style AI regulator to end ad hoc reviews

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Demis Hassabis wants to borrow a page from Wall Street's playbook. The Google DeepMind CEO floated a proposal Tuesday f...

The Rich Can't Quit: Why Tech's Elite Are Taking Demotions for AI — Inblix summary
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The Rich Can't Quit: Why Tech's Elite Are Taking Demotions for AI

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

There's a new status symbol in Silicon Valley, and it's not a C-suite office or a board seat. It's the aggressively hum...

Satya Nadella warns AI labs are a 'Trojan horse' for your data — Inblix summary
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Satya Nadella warns AI labs are a 'Trojan horse' for your data

TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just published a blog post that reads like a warning shot aimed directly at OpenAI, Anthrop...