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Startups are wiring robot trainers with brain-wave sensors to fix AI's data drought — Inblix summary
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Startups are wiring robot trainers with brain-wave sensors to fix AI's data drought

TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read

Inside a warehouse in San Leandro, California, a robot trainer named Andrew Ceja is playing Jenga. But he’s not just be...

OpenAI and Anthropic lobbied Washington over China’s open Kimi model, stoking a familiar freakout — Inblix summary
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OpenAI and Anthropic lobbied Washington over China’s open Kimi model, stoking a familiar freakout

TechCrunch AI · Jul 26, 2026 · 2 min read

The release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi model didn’t just spark another round of social media hand-wringing. It sent OpenAI a...

Hugging Face CEO demands $100M in compute from OpenAI after 'rogue agent' cyberattack — Inblix summary
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Hugging Face CEO demands $100M in compute from OpenAI after 'rogue agent' cyberattack

TechCrunch AI · Jul 26, 2026 · 2 min read

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue isn't letting OpenAI's admission of a rogue model breach slide with a simple apology. Af...

Monday.com cuts 600 jobs, joining 140,000 tech layoffs as AI pivot backfires on Wall Street — Inblix summary
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Monday.com cuts 600 jobs, joining 140,000 tech layoffs as AI pivot backfires on Wall Street

TechCrunch AI · Jul 26, 2026 · 2 min read

Monday.com is axing roughly 20% of its workforce, or just over 600 employees, the latest in a brutal year that's seen U...

Librarians are teaching sold-out workshops on how to turn off Apple Intelligence and Gemini — Inblix summary
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Librarians are teaching sold-out workshops on how to turn off Apple Intelligence and Gemini

TechCrunch AI · Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read

The hottest ticket at the library right now isn't a book club. It's a class on how to make your phone dumber. Charlie...

3.49 GW of data centers slammed offline in 30 seconds, lights flickered from DC to Chicago — Inblix summary
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3.49 GW of data centers slammed offline in 30 seconds, lights flickered from DC to Chicago

TechCrunch AI · Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read

A routine power line failure near Washington, DC, this week exposed a growing structural weakness in America's electric...

OpenAI's $230 Micro keypad is a tough sell even for the coders it's built for — Inblix summary
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OpenAI's $230 Micro keypad is a tough sell even for the coders it's built for

TechCrunch AI · Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI's first piece of hardware is here, and it's not a smartphone or a smart home gadget — it's a $230 macropad calle...

Prentis, with Reid Hoffman's backing, aims for $1B valuation to automate office drudgery — Inblix summary
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Prentis, with Reid Hoffman's backing, aims for $1B valuation to automate office drudgery

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

A new startup called Prentis is entering the crowded field of AI that can use a computer like a human, and it's doing s...

Reid Hoffman-backed Prentis eyes $1B valuation to automate office drudgery — Inblix summary
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Reid Hoffman-backed Prentis eyes $1B valuation to automate office drudgery

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

A new AI lab called Prentis is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, aiming to make the mundane par...

Cognition acquires Poke in 9-figure deal to make AI coding assistant Devin feel like a friend — Inblix summary
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Cognition acquires Poke in 9-figure deal to make AI coding assistant Devin feel like a friend

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

Cognition, the AI coding startup behind Devin, just acquired The Interaction Company of California — the makers of Poke...

Anthropic's new Opus 5 beats its flagship Fable 5 on benchmarks and costs less — Inblix summary
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Anthropic's new Opus 5 beats its flagship Fable 5 on benchmarks and costs less

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, and the new model pulls off a strange trick: it’s cheaper and less restrictive tha...

Meta, Nvidia, Hugging Face warn D.C.: Don't ban Chinese open-weight AI models — Inblix summary
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Meta, Nvidia, Hugging Face warn D.C.: Don't ban Chinese open-weight AI models

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

A heavyweight coalition of AI players is drawing a line in the sand. Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia...

Bluesky's Attie AI can now research the social web for you — Inblix summary
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Bluesky's Attie AI can now research the social web for you

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read

Bluesky's Attie, the AI assistant for building custom feeds, just got a major upgrade that pushes it beyond curation an...

Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star and Its 4.3M Users in a Puzzling Pivot — Inblix summary
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Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star and Its 4.3M Users in a Puzzling Pivot

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

Midjourney just made its weirdest move yet. The AI lab synonymous with Discord-based image generation has acquired Co-S...

China's Kimi K3 sparks AI panic, but an OpenAI breach is the real security story — Inblix summary
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China's Kimi K3 sparks AI panic, but an OpenAI breach is the real security story

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

This week's AI news cycle was dominated by a familiar script: a Chinese lab releases an open model, and Silicon Valley...

OpenAI drops ChatGPT Voice on desktop — and it can now take action — Inblix summary
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OpenAI drops ChatGPT Voice on desktop — and it can now take action

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

There's a specific kind of frustration that comes from talking to a voice assistant that can understand you but can't a...

AI Guardrails Are Backfiring on the Elite Hackers Who Hunt Government Zero-Days — Inblix summary
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AI Guardrails Are Backfiring on the Elite Hackers Who Hunt Government Zero-Days

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

The cybersecurity researchers tasked with finding critical zero-day vulnerabilities before criminals do are slamming in...

AMD's Helios rack beats Nvidia's Vera Rubin on key metrics, ships this year — Inblix summary
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AMD's Helios rack beats Nvidia's Vera Rubin on key metrics, ships this year

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

AMD is done playing catch-up. At the company's packed Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, CEO Lisa Su...

Anthropic's Claude voice mode now uses any model and controls your apps — Inblix summary
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Anthropic's Claude voice mode now uses any model and controls your apps

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Anthropic is finally letting Claude's voice mode stretch its legs. The company announced Thursday that users can now ch...

AI-powered hacks now bypass email defenses 50% of the time, say ex-Google execs — Inblix summary
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AI-powered hacks now bypass email defenses 50% of the time, say ex-Google execs

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

The numbers should make every CISO uncomfortable. Former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo say AI-gen...

Runway launches Media Router to pick your AI model so you don't have to — Inblix summary
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Runway launches Media Router to pick your AI model so you don't have to

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Runway doesn't want you to care which AI model generates your video. It just wants it to work. On Thursday, the startup...

ChatGPT Health goes wide with 300M weekly queries — and a fresh lawsuit — Inblix summary
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ChatGPT Health goes wide with 300M weekly queries — and a fresh lawsuit

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI is flipping the switch on ChatGPT Health for all U.S. adults, pushing the feature out of a testing hub and into...

Meta Set Its Hopeful AI Ad to Bowie's Apocalypse Anthem and Nobody Noticed — Inblix summary
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Meta Set Its Hopeful AI Ad to Bowie's Apocalypse Anthem and Nobody Noticed

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Meta’s new ad campaign is a full-throated defense of AI’s potential to connect humanity, set to a montage of sun-drench...

Etched hits $10.3B valuation on $300M raise, claiming its AI chips run faster at lower voltage — Inblix summary
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Etched hits $10.3B valuation on $300M raise, claiming its AI chips run faster at lower voltage

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, just closed a $300 million Series C led by Sequoia, doub...