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Discord bug falsely bans 8K users over harmless images

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

Discord's AI moderation system went rogue, falsely banning over 8,000 users since May after flagging harmless images—sp...

Decagon CEO: Open source AI isn't killing frontier models

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang dropped a spicy new theory: open source AI isn't actually eating frontier models' lunch. Instea...

Meta Launches Free AI Image Generator Muse

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

Meta just dropped its new AI image generator, Muse, built by its Meta Superintelligence Labs. Think of it as a free, ac...

Microsoft Cuts AI Costs by Using Own Models

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

Microsoft is quietly shifting away from expensive third-party AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic, opting instead to de...

Forterra Deploys 100+ Self-Driving ATVs in Ukraine Combat

TechCrunch AI · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read

Forterra, a US defense tech company, has deployed over 100 autonomous ATVs in Ukraine for the past nine months, marking...

AI Scams Meet Their Match: Savi Security Launches

TechCrunch AI · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read

Two tech industry brothers, Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, have just launched Savi Security, a startup with $7 million in s...

Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to web and mobile

TechCrunch AI · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic is expanding Claude Cowork beyond its desktop app to web and mobile, making it available for Max subscribers...

Siri Gets Voice Control

TechCrunch AI · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read

Apple's latest iOS 27 developer beta introduces new voice controls for Siri, allowing users to adjust the AI assistant'...

Vercel Leads AI

TechCrunch AI · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read

Vercel, a cloud infrastructure company, is at the forefront of AI software with 6 million daily deployments and over 1...

SK Hynix IPO

TechCrunch AI · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read

SK Hynix, a major memory chipmaker, is planning a US IPO to raise around $28 billion, riding the wave of AI-driven dema...

AI Ransomware

TechCrunch AI · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read

Researchers at Sysdig have documented the first known case of 'agentic ransomware', where an AI agent handled a cyberat...

AI vs Spam

TechCrunch AI · Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Large language models are being used to spread spam, but also to fight it. Reddit has developed tools using these model...

Microsoft Cuts 4800 Jobs

TechCrunch AI · Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Microsoft laid off 4800 employees, with Xbox and commercial sales being the hardest hit. The company says the layoffs a...

Google Stores User Media

TechCrunch AI · Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Google recently updated its privacy settings, allowing the company to store and use user-uploaded media, such as images...

Tech Layoffs Surge

TechCrunch AI · Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Microsoft has cut 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, citing AI's impact on everyday tasks, while other tech...

AI Startup Hub

TechCrunch AI · Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub, is launching its second F/ai accelerator program to support promising AI startups...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk Fades

TechCrunch AI · Jul 5, 2026 · 1 min read

Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service launched in 2005, is closing to new customers on July 30, 2026, and w...

Google's AI Twist

TechCrunch AI · Jul 5, 2026 · 1 min read

Google's new ad imagines the Founding Fathers using Google Workspace to collaborate on the Declaration of Independence,...

Mistral AI

TechCrunch AI · Jul 4, 2026 · 1 min read

Mistral AI, a French AI company, is often misunderstood as trying to be the European version of OpenAI, but it's actual...

Alibaba Bans Claude Code

TechCrunch AI · Jul 4, 2026 · 1 min read

Alibaba is banning its employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code programming tool due to security concerns and compl...

AI Startup Fights Studios

TechCrunch AI · Jul 4, 2026 · 1 min read

Midjourney, an AI startup, is in a legal battle with three Hollywood studios over alleged copyright infringement. The s...

AI Browsers Rise

TechCrunch AI · Jul 4, 2026 · 1 min read

The browser wars have entered a new phase, with companies competing to create AI-powered browsers that can act on users...

AI Terms Explained

TechCrunch AI · Jul 4, 2026 · 1 min read

The world of artificial intelligence is creating a new language to describe its advancements, leaving many feeling inse...

Anthropic Eyes AI Chips

TechCrunch AI · Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic is exploring the development of its own AI chips, potentially in partnership with Samsung, as a response to c...