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Facebook reimagines Creator Studio as AI-powered app to boost creator growth

TechCrunch AI · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

Facebook is revamping its Creator Studio tool into a standalone AI companion app to help creators grow their audiences....

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OpenAI Launches 'Patch the Planet' to Secure Open Source Projects

TechCrunch AI · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

OpenAI has teamed up with security company Trail of Bits to help open source maintainers secure their projects. The 'Pa...

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Tech layoffs surge as companies cut 21,000 workers, citing AI

TechCrunch AI · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

Oracle revealed a 21,000-employee cut, a 13% decline, with AI cited as a factor. This trend is part of a larger issue:...

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Revolutionizing Hiring with AI-Powered Video Profiles

TechCrunch AI · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

A traditional hiring process plagued by inefficiency and bias is being challenged by Fika Jobs, a startup developing an...

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MoEngage Acquires Aampe to Boost Customer Engagement with AI

TechCrunch AI · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

MoEngage, a leading customer engagement software firm, has acquired Aampe, a San Francisco-based startup, in an all-cas...

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Last Chance: Save Up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

TechCrunch AI · Jun 23, 2026 · 1 min read

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a one-day event where over 1,000 founders and investors will come together to share insigh...

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Anthropic Unveils Claude Tag: AI Assistant for Slack

TechCrunch AI · Jun 23, 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag, an 'always-on' AI teammate that lives in Slack, allowing users to tag @Claude for...

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Amazon to launch Hindi-language Alexa+ in India

TechCrunch AI · Jun 23, 2026 · 1 min read

Amazon is expanding its Alexa+ conversational AI assistant to India, where over 600 million people speak Hindi. The com...

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Google Invests $75M in Indie Film Studio A24 to Develop AI Tools

TechCrunch AI · Jun 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Google DeepMind has announced a $75 million investment in indie film studio A24, aiming to create AI tools for filmmaki...

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Nvidia's Warm-Water Cooling System Reduces Data Center Water Use

TechCrunch AI · Jun 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Nvidia's new cooling system can significantly reduce water consumption in data centers, but it's not a complete solutio...

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AI loops gain traction as agents write code for each other

TechCrunch AI · Jun 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says loops are a crucial step in agentic AI development. Two years ago, agents st...

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How to Get Rid of Google's Annoying AI Pop-Ups in Google Docs

TechCrunch AI · Jun 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Google Docs keeps popping up with AI-powered Gemini, which can be infuriating. To fix this, you can either disable indi...

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OpenAI adds Google DeepMind legend Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball

TechCrunch AI · Jun 22, 2026 · 1 min read

OpenAI is bolstering its team ahead of its public debut by recruiting Noam Shazeer and Dean Ball. Shazeer, a co-lead at...

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Reliance Industries Unveils AI Services to Challenge Global Tech Giants

TechCrunch AI · Jun 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Reliance Industries is pushing into the global AI race with AI services for phone calls, mobile apps, and connected hom...

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Match Group Survey Reveals Americans' Mixed Feelings on AI in Dating

TechCrunch AI · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 min read

A recent survey of 1,000 US singles aged 18-39 found that 47% have a negative view of AI's use in romantic contexts. Ho...

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Snap Spins Off AI Video Team into New Company Dotmo

TechCrunch AI · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Snap is spinning off its internal generative AI video team into a new company called Dotmo, which will focus on creatin...

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Apple embeds AI in iOS 27 to make software smarter

TechCrunch AI · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Apple is taking a subtle approach to AI by weaving it into existing apps and services, rather than relying on a new AI-...

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AI lab Anthropic forced to pull models offline due to export control order

TechCrunch AI · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 min read

The US government has forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models offline due to a national security order, citin...

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Can Chatbots Remember You?

TechCrunch AI · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Imagine being remembered by a superhuman AI. That's what In the Weights lets you do. The website uses various AI models...

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AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude: What's at stake for user privacy

TechCrunch AI · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not conscious or sentient, but their increasing capabilities raise concerns about...

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Allbirds' AI Pivot: A New Market for Managed AI Compute

TechCrunch AI · Jun 20, 2026 · 1 min read

Allbirds has sold its shoe business for $43 million and rebranded as Smartbird, an AI infrastructure provider. Former A...

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Anthropic's AI models banned by US government over security concerns

TechCrunch AI · Jun 20, 2026 · 1 min read

The US government recently forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, due to alleged secu...

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AI Export Controls Put to the Test

TechCrunch AI · Jun 20, 2026 · 1 min read

The US government has restricted the export of powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside the US, citing nat...

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Anthropic Models Banned Amid Security Concerns

TechCrunch AI · Jun 19, 2026 · 1 min read

The US government has forced Anthropic to remove its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after Amazon researchers...