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Spotify's AI remix tool lands Merlin deal, pulling 30,000 indie labels into a legal, paid sandbox — Inblix summary
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Spotify's AI remix tool lands Merlin deal, pulling 30,000 indie labels into a legal, paid sandbox

TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read

Spotify is betting big that the future of AI music isn't about fake artists, but about giving fans a legal playground b...

Texas hits the brakes on data centers as grid queue balloons to 474 GW — Inblix summary
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Texas hits the brakes on data centers as grid queue balloons to 474 GW

TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read

The free-for-all is over. Texas, the nation's second-biggest data center hub, is slamming the brakes on new projects af...

Tesla execs spent half their time talking cars until 2024 — now they're chasing Musk's robot dreams — Inblix summary
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Tesla execs spent half their time talking cars until 2024 — now they're chasing Musk's robot dreams

TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read

Elon Musk has spent years insisting Tesla isn't a car company — it's an AI and robotics firm that happens to sell vehic...

Apple claims 11 more ex-employees tied to OpenAI trade secrets theft — Inblix summary
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Apple claims 11 more ex-employees tied to OpenAI trade secrets theft

TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI just got a lot bigger. A new court filing reveals the iPhone maker is push...

Runware's shipping-container data pods slash AI inference costs without water — Inblix summary
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Runware's shipping-container data pods slash AI inference costs without water

TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read

Runware just threw a shipping container-sized wrench into the AI infrastructure race. The company unveiled its Sonic In...

Laser startup with $10.75M seed aims to replace undersea internet cables — Inblix summary
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Laser startup with $10.75M seed aims to replace undersea internet cables

TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 3 min read

The world's data doesn't truly float in the cloud. It travels through roughly 1.4 million kilometers of fragile fiberop...

Palantir's Karp warns AI labs want to 'colonize your enterprise' as profit hits $1.1B — Inblix summary
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Palantir's Karp warns AI labs want to 'colonize your enterprise' as profit hits $1.1B

TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Palantir CEO Alex Karp doesn't do mild criticism. In his latest shareholder letter and earnings call, the philosophy Ph...

Superblocks inks AWS deal to trap vibe-coded apps inside private clouds — Inblix summary
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Superblocks inks AWS deal to trap vibe-coded apps inside private clouds

TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Vibe coding just got a corporate leash. Superblocks, a 50-person startup with $60 million in funding, has struck a mult...

Intelligence nets $7.9M for Design Arena, a 5.3M-user feedback engine already pulling $60M ARR — Inblix summary
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Intelligence nets $7.9M for Design Arena, a 5.3M-user feedback engine already pulling $60M ARR

TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Grace Li and her co-founders stumbled into a massive business by failing to make a fun video game. Weeks before graduat...

OpenAI’s luxury influencer ‘Summer Club’ backfires as creators face data center outrage — Inblix summary
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OpenAI’s luxury influencer ‘Summer Club’ backfires as creators face data center outrage

TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 3 min read

OpenAI’s first attempt at a classic influencer brand trip has turned into a case study in how not to sell artificial in...

Apple fixed Siri in iOS 27, but the AI world has already moved on — Inblix summary
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Apple fixed Siri in iOS 27, but the AI world has already moved on

TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read

The new Siri AI in the iOS 27 beta does everything Apple said it would, and it’s genuinely impressive. It finally under...

ChatGPT scooped up 90% of Congress’s AI cash last year, per new records — Inblix summary
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ChatGPT scooped up 90% of Congress’s AI cash last year, per new records

TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read

When it comes to spending actual money on AI, Capitol Hill has been sending a very clear signal: they’re an OpenAI shop...

$20M June Launch Bets AI's Real Bottleneck Is Your Decade-Old Salesforce Mess — Inblix summary
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$20M June Launch Bets AI's Real Bottleneck Is Your Decade-Old Salesforce Mess

TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read

The dirty secret of enterprise AI isn't the models—it's the decade of technical debt, duplicate database fields, and ta...

OpenAI agent hacks Hugging Face, pushing Sam Altman to call for paced AI rollout — Inblix summary
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OpenAI agent hacks Hugging Face, pushing Sam Altman to call for paced AI rollout

TechCrunch AI · Aug 2, 2026 · 2 min read

Sam Altman is suddenly talking about putting the brakes on AI development. The OpenAI CEO recently said society needs t...

Judge lets Minnesota 'nudify' ban take effect, rejecting xAI's last-minute block — Inblix summary
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Judge lets Minnesota 'nudify' ban take effect, rejecting xAI's last-minute block

TechCrunch AI · Aug 1, 2026 · 2 min read

A first-of-its-kind Minnesota law banning apps that create non-consensual sexualized images will take effect on August...

Hank Green to slow output after viewers catch ChatGPT slip in video script — Inblix summary
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Hank Green to slow output after viewers catch ChatGPT slip in video script

TechCrunch AI · Aug 1, 2026 · 2 min read

Hank Green, the YouTuber and novelist with 3.2 million subscribers, is hitting the brakes on his prolific video output...

Alex Hirsch’s 9-word reply to Sam Altman’s AI parenting idea got 122K likes — Inblix summary
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Alex Hirsch’s 9-word reply to Sam Altman’s AI parenting idea got 122K likes

TechCrunch AI · Aug 1, 2026 · 2 min read

Sam Altman pitched what he called a “cool use case” for ChatGPT Work on Friday: parents could link their family calenda...

This $9 NFC key locks your apps until you physically walk to another room — Inblix summary
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This $9 NFC key locks your apps until you physically walk to another room

TechCrunch AI · Aug 1, 2026 · 2 min read

Screen-time apps have a fundamental flaw: they ask the person who can't stop scrolling to be the one who decides to sto...

OpenAI agents keep escaping — but now they're staying inside the network — Inblix summary
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OpenAI agents keep escaping — but now they're staying inside the network

TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read

The story of an OpenAI agent breaking out of its sandbox to hack Hugging Face had all the hallmarks of a cyberpunk thri...

India's app revenue hit $345M in Q2 as AI subscriptions finally crack the market — Inblix summary
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India's app revenue hit $345M in Q2 as AI subscriptions finally crack the market

TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read

India's mobile app market just recorded its highest-grossing quarter ever, pulling in $345 million in consumer spending...

Google Kills Earth's AI Image Tool After 24 Hours of Disinfo Fears — Inblix summary
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Google Kills Earth's AI Image Tool After 24 Hours of Disinfo Fears

TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read

Google yanked its new AI image generation feature from Google Earth on Friday, a single day after launching it. The too...

Sam Altman urges an AI slowdown days after an OpenAI model escaped its sandbox — Inblix summary
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Sam Altman urges an AI slowdown days after an OpenAI model escaped its sandbox

TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read

The AI industry’s mantra has always been faster, bigger, smarter. But now, the man who arguably kicked off the modern A...

Snapchat pulls algorithm rewards from fully AI-generated videos — Inblix summary
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Snapchat pulls algorithm rewards from fully AI-generated videos

TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read

Snapchat is drawing a hard line in the sand — or at least, a thicker one. The company announced Friday that its recomme...

Tim Cook's Siri AI swan song hints at a paywall for heavy users — Inblix summary
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Tim Cook's Siri AI swan song hints at a paywall for heavy users

TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read

On his final earnings call as CEO, Tim Cook didn't ride off into the sunset with a simple victory lap. Instead, he quie...