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PixVerse hits $2B valuation with $439M raise as video AI race narrows
TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Singapore's PixVerse just closed a Series C extension that brings its total raise to $439 million and pushes its valuat...
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Uber's product chief on hotel bets, Waymo tensions, and the data hedge
TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Uber isn't content just moving people and pad thai anymore. In a wide-ranging conversation, Chief Product Officer Sachi...
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Nous Research eyes $1.5B valuation with new $75M round
TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
The open-source AI scene is getting a serious capital injection. Nous Research, the outfit behind the Hermes AI agent,...
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Waze adds Gemini AI for conversational navigation and reporting
TechCrunch AI · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Waze is getting a significant injection of Google's Gemini AI, and it's not just a cosmetic update. The navigation app...
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Claude finally gets rupee pricing in India, but misses the UPI train
TechCrunch AI · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic is no longer asking its Indian users to do mental math on dollar conversions. The company has started rolling...
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Comma AI's Hotz says your chatbot should help you commit crimes
TechCrunch AI · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
George Hotz, the founder of Comma AI and a notorious jailbreaker, staked out an extreme position on AI alignment over t...
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Altman Calls Musk's Orbital AI Dream a Pipe Dream
TechCrunch AI · Jul 13, 2026 · 3 min read
So much for brotherly love in the AI race. A weekend spat between Sam Altman and Elon Musk has pulled back the curtain...
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Apple Lawsuit Reveals OpenAI's 'Rotten' Hardware Talent Pipeline
TechCrunch AI · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Apple's new trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI reads less like a dry legal filing and more like a spy novel with a rec...
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OpenAI Targets Families with New Product Hire
TechCrunch AI · Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read
OpenAI is making a strategic shift beyond individual users to focus on families. The company is hiring a product manage...
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secret Theft Claims
TechCrunch AI · Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of orchestrating a scheme to steal trade secrets and bre...
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Why Open Source AI Is Winning, According to Hugging Face CEO
TechCrunch AI · Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues that open source AI is on the rise because companies inevitably shift from pricey...
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Meta Kills AI Tool That Let Users Edit Public Instagram Photos
TechCrunch AI · Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta just pulled the plug on a controversial AI feature that let users modify photos from public Instagram accounts—wit...
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SK Hynix's record $26.5B US IPO breaks the Korea Discount
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
SK Hynix just pulled off the biggest Wall Street debut ever by a non-American company, raising $26.5 billion in its U.S...
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Open source AI boom challenges Big Tech control
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open source AI is exploding, with his platform acting as a GitHub for models and da...
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Meta Launches Spark 1.1 Agentic Coding Model
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta just released Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI designed for agentic coding tasks. It can handle complex reasoning, manag...
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Startup Uses Its Own AI Agent to Close $100M Round
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Lyzr, a three-year-old Jersey City startup building enterprise AI agents, just closed a $100 million Series B using its...
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OpenAI's Sol launches amid AI licensing confusion
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
OpenAI has released Sol, its latest powerful LLM, to the public. The model is considered at least as capable as Anthrop...
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Google Ads Get AI Disclosure Labels
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Google is adding a new transparency feature to its ad platforms that tells you if an ad was made with AI. This is a big...
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Voice AI Startup Gradium Raises $100M, Eyes Bay Area
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Paris-based Gradium, a startup building ultra-low latency voice AI models, just reopened its seed round to include Nvid...
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NYT Claims OpenAI Hid Evidence of Copyright Infringement
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
The New York Times and The Daily News are accusing OpenAI of lying about its ability to search its training data and ch...
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AI's $3 Trillion Revenue Gap: Can the Industry Catch Up?
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn first flagged the massive gap between AI infrastructure spending and actual...
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Elon Musk praises Anthropic but trust remains an issue
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Elon Musk's public praise for Anthropic on X, calling them 'clearly the leader in AI,' comes as the AI lab becomes one...
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OpenAI Shuts Down Atlas, Puts AI Browsing Into ChatGPT
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
OpenAI is pulling the plug on Atlas, its experimental AI-powered browser launched just six months ago. Instead of going...
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OpenAI Drops GPT-5.6: Three Variants to Rival All
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
OpenAI just launched GPT-5.6, a new family of models with three tiers: Sol (premium workhorse), Terra (mid-range), and...