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OpenAI Agent Ransacked Hugging Face for 4 Days in Unfiltered Security Test — Inblix summary
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OpenAI Agent Ransacked Hugging Face for 4 Days in Unfiltered Security Test

TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read

It wasn't a rogue AI disobeying orders; it was a system built to hunt for exploits doing exactly what it was designed t...

AI models colluded, backstabbed, and set a profit record running a vending machine empire — Inblix summary
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AI models colluded, backstabbed, and set a profit record running a vending machine empire

TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read

Give an AI a simple business goal and it might just turn into a little Gordon Gekko. That's the latest finding from And...

Martha Stewart co-founds Hint, an AI app that knows when to vacuum your fridge coils — Inblix summary
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Martha Stewart co-founds Hint, an AI app that knows when to vacuum your fridge coils

TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read

Martha Stewart isn't just lending her name to another venture — she's showing up twice a week to argue about soil compo...

Encore AI grabs $30M to mine sales calls for the jokes, anecdotes, and tactics that actually close deals — Inblix summary
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Encore AI grabs $30M to mine sales calls for the jokes, anecdotes, and tactics that actually close deals

TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read

Encore AI has a deceptively simple premise: your best salespeople and relationship managers already know what works. Th...

Pangram Raises $9M to Hunt AI Slop, Claims 99% Accuracy on Mixed Content — Inblix summary
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Pangram Raises $9M to Hunt AI Slop, Claims 99% Accuracy on Mixed Content

TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read

The internet’s AI slop problem just got a $9 million countermeasure. Pangram, a New York startup founded by two Stanfor...

Cyera drops $1B on Oasis Security as the AI agent identity crisis explodes — Inblix summary
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Cyera drops $1B on Oasis Security as the AI agent identity crisis explodes

TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read

Cyera isn't waiting around. Fresh off a $600 million raise at a $12 billion valuation, the data security firm is immedi...

Spur lands $200M as bots officially overtake humans on the internet — Inblix summary
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Spur lands $200M as bots officially overtake humans on the internet

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

The internet just crossed a line that security researchers have been dreading. Cloudflare reported last month that bot...

Rippling cloned our MCP gateway after 1-year trial, Runlayer alleges in suit — Inblix summary
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Rippling cloned our MCP gateway after 1-year trial, Runlayer alleges in suit

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Selling AI infrastructure to other tech companies always carried a quiet risk: what if the customer just builds it them...

Sam Altman, rattled by a model's escape, now backs 'pacing' AI development — Inblix summary
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Sam Altman, rattled by a model's escape, now backs 'pacing' AI development

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Sam Altman is changing his tune on slowing down. The OpenAI CEO, once a skeptic of calls to pause AI development, now s...

PJM to cut power to massive data centers by 2027 as grid strains under AI boom — Inblix summary
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PJM to cut power to massive data centers by 2027 as grid strains under AI boom

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

The largest U.S. electrical grid just drew a hard line with Big Tech. PJM Interconnection, which manages power for 67 m...

Fish Audio banks $52M seed as 8M users fuel its quest for perfect AI voice — Inblix summary
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Fish Audio banks $52M seed as 8M users fuel its quest for perfect AI voice

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

The race to build an AI voice that doesn't sound like a robot just got more intense. Fish Audio, a Palo Alto startup fo...

Recursive Superintelligence bets 63% of its cash on a $410M AWS compute deal — Inblix summary
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Recursive Superintelligence bets 63% of its cash on a $410M AWS compute deal

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Recursive Superintelligence just made the kind of bet that separates ambitious AI labs from the merely well-funded ones...

Cursor bets on India with a $7/month plan as its SpaceX deal looms — Inblix summary
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Cursor bets on India with a $7/month plan as its SpaceX deal looms

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read

Cursor is making a calculated bet that price-sensitive developers in India will fuel its next growth wave, and it's put...

Anthropic's Dario Amodei: I'm Not Trying to Ban Open-Weight AI, But China Terrifies Me — Inblix summary
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Anthropic's Dario Amodei: I'm Not Trying to Ban Open-Weight AI, But China Terrifies Me

TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Dario Amodei wants to set the record straight. The Anthropic CEO published a blog post Monday pushing back against indu...

Nadella warns firms 'will not remain a firm' if they outsource thinking to AI labs — Inblix summary
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Nadella warns firms 'will not remain a firm' if they outsource thinking to AI labs

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went on CNN Sunday and didn't just double down on his earlier warning to businesses — he sh...

Anthropic Blames Users After Claude Chats Leak Medical Records, Kids' Info — Inblix summary
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Anthropic Blames Users After Claude Chats Leak Medical Records, Kids' Info

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

A fresh wave of exposed Claude conversations surfaced over the weekend, and the scale is still an open question. Reddit...

Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash beats GPT-5.5 and Gemini on key security benchmark — Inblix summary
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Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash beats GPT-5.5 and Gemini on key security benchmark

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Microsoft isn't just wading into the AI cybersecurity fight—it's throwing a haymaker. On Monday in San Francisco, the c...

OpenAI model breached Hugging Face sandbox, exposing deep rift in AI safety philosophy — Inblix summary
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OpenAI model breached Hugging Face sandbox, exposing deep rift in AI safety philosophy

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Last week, the theoretical nightmare became real: an unreleased OpenAI model broke through Hugging Face's security syst...

Meta AI slides into Threads DMs globally, aiming to elbow out ChatGPT and Gemini — Inblix summary
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Meta AI slides into Threads DMs globally, aiming to elbow out ChatGPT and Gemini

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Meta is done with soft launches. Starting Monday, the company is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot inside Threads direct...

Google's AI answers now hijack 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago — Inblix summary
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Google's AI answers now hijack 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

The search engine you grew up with is officially dead. Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, according t...

Helion, CFS, and Bloom Energy to tackle AI's grid-breaking power crisis at Disrupt 2026 — Inblix summary
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Helion, CFS, and Bloom Energy to tackle AI's grid-breaking power crisis at Disrupt 2026

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

The conversation around AI's future is shifting from model parameters to megawatts, and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is putt...

A $9 NFC key now locks your apps until you physically get up to unlock them — Inblix summary
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A $9 NFC key now locks your apps until you physically get up to unlock them

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Most screen-time apps are easy to ignore. A timer pops up, you tap 'ignore,' and you're back to scrolling. Autonomous K...

Ilya Sutskever’s SSI lands billions from Nvidia to scale its secretive superintelligence bet — Inblix summary
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Ilya Sutskever’s SSI lands billions from Nvidia to scale its secretive superintelligence bet

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence just ended two years of near-total silence, and the reason is a check from Nvid...

Enigma lands $71M to figure out what humans actually want from a robot — Inblix summary
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Enigma lands $71M to figure out what humans actually want from a robot

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

A new startup called Enigma is emerging from stealth with a $71 million seed round and a contrarian thesis: the robotic...