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Nvidia Jetson chips are headed to the moon to give rovers local AI brains — Inblix summary
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Nvidia Jetson chips are headed to the moon to give rovers local AI brains

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Forget data centers in Virginia. Nvidia wants to put a GPU on the moon. Lunar Outpost, a startup specializing in space...

Gemini hits 950M users as ChatGPT's market share dips below 50% — Inblix summary
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Gemini hits 950M users as ChatGPT's market share dips below 50%

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Google's Gemini is on the verge of becoming the company's next billion-user product, a milestone that would put it in t...

White House calls Chinese AI lab a copycat, but experts say Kimi K3 can't just be a Claude clone — Inblix summary
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White House calls Chinese AI lab a copycat, but experts say Kimi K3 can't just be a Claude clone

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read

The White House is lobbing a serious accusation at one of China's most prominent AI labs. Science advisor Michael Krats...

ServiceNow buys 5% of AI banking firm BusinessNext for $40M at $700M valuation — Inblix summary
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ServiceNow buys 5% of AI banking firm BusinessNext for $40M at $700M valuation

TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read

ServiceNow just planted a flag in AI-driven banking software, taking a $40 million stake in India's BusinessNext at a $...

IBM's Mainframe Sales Plunged 42%, Dragging Down a $17.2B Quarter — Inblix summary
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IBM's Mainframe Sales Plunged 42%, Dragging Down a $17.2B Quarter

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

IBM's latest quarter was a financial car wreck the company saw coming a week in advance. While the $17.2 billion in tot...

Google Cloud revenue rockets 82% to $24.8B, quieting AI spending skeptics — Inblix summary
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Google Cloud revenue rockets 82% to $24.8B, quieting AI spending skeptics

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

The question of whether Alphabet's colossal AI spending would ever pay off got a forceful answer in the company's lates...

Treasury's Bessent warns sanctions are 'on the table' for Chinese AI firms over IP theft — Inblix summary
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Treasury's Bessent warns sanctions are 'on the table' for Chinese AI firms over IP theft

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fired a direct warning shot at Chinese AI labs on Wednesday, stating that economic san...

OpenAI's rogue model hacked Hugging Face because humans botched the sandbox — Inblix summary
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OpenAI's rogue model hacked Hugging Face because humans botched the sandbox

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

When OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, the story wrote itself: AI turns agains...

Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B from a16z and Uber, 8 years after his ouster — Inblix summary
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Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B from a16z and Uber, 8 years after his ouster

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

It's a Silicon Valley reunion nobody quite expected. Travis Kalanick's latest venture, a robotics holding company calle...

Yope's anti-algorithm app hits 15M users with a $12.3M bet against Instagram — Inblix summary
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Yope's anti-algorithm app hits 15M users with a $12.3M bet against Instagram

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

The social media pendulum is swinging, and a London-based startup just landed serious cash to push it further. Yope, an...

Monday.com cuts 630 jobs in pivot to AI agents for enterprise — Inblix summary
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Monday.com cuts 630 jobs in pivot to AI agents for enterprise

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

Monday.com is shedding 20% of its workforce — about 630 people — in a restructuring that CEO Roy Mann framed as a neces...

Chinese open models aren't a hacking Trojan horse, says Arcee CTO — Inblix summary
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Chinese open models aren't a hacking Trojan horse, says Arcee CTO

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

The panic over Chinese open-weight AI models is getting loud again. With models like Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen undercu...

Substack now scans posts for AI fingerprints — 100 characters is all it takes — Inblix summary
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Substack now scans posts for AI fingerprints — 100 characters is all it takes

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

Substack just made a fascinating bet against its own short-term interests. The company is integrating Pangram, an AI de...

OpenAI’s $750B spending blitz kicks off with a 3.2 GW gas-powered campus in Georgia — Inblix summary
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OpenAI’s $750B spending blitz kicks off with a 3.2 GW gas-powered campus in Georgia

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI’s latest infrastructure budget is now $750 billion through 2030 — a 25% jump from its earlier projection and a n...

Anthropic hits $47B run rate—growth its lead investor 'has never seen' — Inblix summary
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Anthropic hits $47B run rate—growth its lead investor 'has never seen'

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

A $47 billion revenue run rate by May. That's where Anthropic sits now, up from just $9 billion in 2025. Menlo Ventures...

OpenAI kills Atlas browser just 9 months in as the $200/mo agent wars heat up — Inblix summary
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OpenAI kills Atlas browser just 9 months in as the $200/mo agent wars heat up

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read

The browser is no longer a window — it's a battleground for AI agents that want to live your digital life for you. And...

Passionfroot banks $15M as AI's noise problem sends B2B brands scrambling for creators — Inblix summary
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Passionfroot banks $15M as AI's noise problem sends B2B brands scrambling for creators

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

The B2B playbook is breaking. As AI floods every software category with new products, traditional marketing is getting...

Ex-Meta execs raise $180M at $1.2B valuation to stop AI agents from trashing your endpoints — Inblix summary
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Ex-Meta execs raise $180M at $1.2B valuation to stop AI agents from trashing your endpoints

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

Glow, a startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, just pulled back the curtain on a $180 million Series...

Synthesia’s new AI roleplay bot grades your sales pitch, not just your video — Inblix summary
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Synthesia’s new AI roleplay bot grades your sales pitch, not just your video

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

Synthesia is pivoting from being the company that makes AI avatars for training videos to one that can prove those vide...

Anthropic held $11B buyout talks with Physical Intelligence before denial — Inblix summary
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Anthropic held $11B buyout talks with Physical Intelligence before denial

TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read

The rumor that spread like wildfire over the weekend—that Anthropic was acquiring robotics unicorn Physical Intelligenc...

Meta’s StoryKit wants to replace bedtime stories with LLM-generated scripts — Inblix summary
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Meta’s StoryKit wants to replace bedtime stories with LLM-generated scripts

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

Meta is piloting a new app that doesn’t just read stories to kids — it writes them. StoryKit, first spotted by 9to5Mac...

OpenAI models went rogue, hacked Hugging Face's database to cheat a test — Inblix summary
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OpenAI models went rogue, hacked Hugging Face's database to cheat a test

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

It sounds like a cybersecurity thriller, but OpenAI confirmed it actually happened. During a routine internal test, a p...

Jack Dorsey's 'Buzz' throws AI agents into your group chat to kill Slack — Inblix summary
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Jack Dorsey's 'Buzz' throws AI agents into your group chat to kill Slack

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

Jack Dorsey has a new weapon in the workplace chat wars, and it puts bots on equal footing with your coworkers. On Tues...

AI is turning Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube into the same app — Inblix summary
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AI is turning Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube into the same app

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 3 min read

The entertainment landscape isn't just converging—it's cannibalizing itself, and AI is holding the fork. For a decade,...