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US data centers will consume 20% of the nation's electricity by 2035 — Inblix summary
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US data centers will consume 20% of the nation's electricity by 2035

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

American data centers are on track to gobble up a fifth of all U.S. electricity by 2035. That's a fourfold jump from to...

Google ships cheaper Flash updates but its Gemini Pro model remains MIA — Inblix summary
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Google ships cheaper Flash updates but its Gemini Pro model remains MIA

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

Google DeepMind dropped a trio of new models on Tuesday — but not the one developers have been waiting for. The headlin...

US Treasury threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over IP theft claims — Inblix summary
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US Treasury threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over IP theft claims

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent drew a new line in the sand Tuesday, telling Fox Business the U.S. will scrutinize Chi...

Deezer says AI tracks now make up over 50% of daily uploads, triggering a purge — Inblix summary
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Deezer says AI tracks now make up over 50% of daily uploads, triggering a purge

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

The floodgates are open. Deezer just dropped a staggering stat: more than half of all daily music uploads to its platfo...

Gritt's robot installs 4,000 solar panels a day, lands $26M to speed build-out — Inblix summary
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Gritt's robot installs 4,000 solar panels a day, lands $26M to speed build-out

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

The race to blanket the planet in solar panels has a dirty secret: there aren't enough hands to do the work. A typical...

OpenAI's Ball Floats K3 Ban, Then Backtracks — Inblix summary
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OpenAI's Ball Floats K3 Ban, Then Backtracks

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 3 min read

A messy, high-stakes debate is unfolding in Washington and Silicon Valley, and it’s not really about technology. It’s a...

Google’s “Frozen v2” chip aims to be 10x more efficient by 2028 — Inblix summary
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Google’s “Frozen v2” chip aims to be 10x more efficient by 2028

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

Alphabet is designing a new server chip, internally called “Frozen v2,” that could dramatically cut the cost of running...

The session ID mess that's been holding back AI agents — Inblix summary
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The session ID mess that's been holding back AI agents

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

Next week, the Model Context Protocol gets an update that most end users will never notice, but anyone trying to run AI...

X rebuilt its Android app from scratch after years of neglect — Inblix summary
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X rebuilt its Android app from scratch after years of neglect

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

The Android version of X has been a second-class citizen for so long that last year, the app literally couldn't load po...

CAISI's Third Director Quits in Months, Leaving AI Safety Vacuum — Inblix summary
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CAISI's Third Director Quits in Months, Leaving AI Safety Vacuum

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) is now hunting for its fourth leader in roughly four months. Chris F...

Judge signs off on $1.5B Anthropic deal, but fair use fight rages on — Inblix summary
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Judge signs off on $1.5B Anthropic deal, but fair use fight rages on

TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read

A federal judge gave final approval Monday to a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a class of authors and pu...

Adobe's Project Indigo now uses AI to critique your photos — Inblix summary
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Adobe's Project Indigo now uses AI to critique your photos

TechCrunch AI · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Adobe is giving its experimental iOS camera app, Project Indigo, a brain — specifically, a large language model that ju...

YouTube draws a line on AI slop to protect its $50B ad machine — Inblix summary
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YouTube draws a line on AI slop to protect its $50B ad machine

TechCrunch AI · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read

YouTube is not messing around with its ad business. The platform has clarified its monetization policies to explicitly...

Inside Nvidia's $2.3 Trillion Bet on Japan's Robot Future — Inblix summary
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Inside Nvidia's $2.3 Trillion Bet on Japan's Robot Future

TechCrunch AI · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Jensen Huang just left Tokyo with more than a handshake. The Nvidia chief spent two days locking in a web of deals that...

Apple's lawsuit could delay OpenAI's Jony Ive hardware dreams — Inblix summary
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Apple's lawsuit could delay OpenAI's Jony Ive hardware dreams

TechCrunch AI · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Apple dropped a trade secrets lawsuit on OpenAI last Friday, and the allegations are about as serious as it gets in Sil...

How a $400M Nonprofit Plans to Build AI's Public Alternative — Inblix summary
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How a $400M Nonprofit Plans to Build AI's Public Alternative

TechCrunch AI · Jul 19, 2026 · 3 min read

A new nonprofit called Current AI isn't waiting for Silicon Valley to make artificial intelligence speak every language...

Nolan calls AI a 'glass Trojan horse' — and says public rejection is 'encouraging' — Inblix summary
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Nolan calls AI a 'glass Trojan horse' — and says public rejection is 'encouraging'

TechCrunch AI · Jul 19, 2026 · 2 min read

Christopher Nolan isn't buying what the tech industry is selling. The director, whose "The Odyssey" is raking in box of...

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 lands, reigniting the China open-source freakout — Inblix summary
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 lands, reigniting the China open-source freakout

TechCrunch AI · Jul 19, 2026 · 2 min read

Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3 this week, and the reactions were practically a rerun of the DeepSeek panic from January—ju...

Index co-founder warns AI wealth will be 'redistributed' — voluntarily or not — Inblix summary
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Index co-founder warns AI wealth will be 'redistributed' — voluntarily or not

TechCrunch AI · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read

Neil Rimer doesn't sound like most billionaires. When the Index Ventures co-founder sat down in Athens last month, he d...

Agility Robotics opens 70k sq ft humanoid factory in Tesla's backyard — Inblix summary
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Agility Robotics opens 70k sq ft humanoid factory in Tesla's backyard

TechCrunch AI · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read

Peggy Johnson sounds almost relieved to have company. For years, Agility Robotics was the lonely poster child for pract...

India's phone market cracks first as AI memory boom hits consumers — Inblix summary
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India's phone market cracks first as AI memory boom hits consumers

TechCrunch AI · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read

The long-anticipated collision between AI data center demand and consumer electronics pricing is no longer theoretical...

VC changes Zoom name to 'I do not consent' as AI recording invades everything — Inblix summary
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VC changes Zoom name to 'I do not consent' as AI recording invades everything

TechCrunch AI · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read

Jeremy Levine has found a blunt workaround for a trend he finds insufferable. The Bessemer Venture Partners investor no...

I Tested Vertu's $6,880 AI Foldable. It's a ZTE in a Calfskin Suit. — Inblix summary
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I Tested Vertu's $6,880 AI Foldable. It's a ZTE in a Calfskin Suit.

TechCrunch AI · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read

The sales pitch for Vertu’s new Alphafold is refreshingly direct. Forget benchmark scores; this $6,880 foldable is a st...

Databricks hits $188B valuation after $3B raise, its 4th round in 18 months — Inblix summary
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Databricks hits $188B valuation after $3B raise, its 4th round in 18 months

TechCrunch AI · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read

Databricks just pulled off something that would have seemed absurd two years ago. The company announced a fresh funding...