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techWired•Today 11:23 PM
Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla
Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.
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techTechCrunch•Today 10:30 PM
A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.
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techTechCrunch•Today 9:57 PM
Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But trust is irrelevant as AGI nears, he says.
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
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techTechCrunch•Today 9:43 PM
Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity amicably ended
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
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techTechCrunch•Today 9:32 PM
Is xAI a neocloud now?
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
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techWired•Today 9:24 PM
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.
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techTechCrunch•Today 8:39 PM
Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.
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techTechCrunch•Today 7:57 PM
Microsofts AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals
The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.
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techWired•Today 7:32 PM
Trump’s Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He’s Already Rejected
As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it.
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techTechCrunch•Today 7:10 PM
Robinhoods venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura before they go public.
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techWired•Today 6:28 PM
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
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techTechCrunch•Today 6:23 PM
How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
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techTechCrunch•Today 6:20 PM
DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases
U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft.
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techTechCrunch•Today 6:05 PM
AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys
Braintrust, a startup that makes an “operating system for engineers building AI software,” notified customers that hackers broke into one of its Amazon cloud environments, and is asking customers to rotate their API keys.
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techWired•Today 6:00 PM
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
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