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Could Google’s Veo 3 be the start of playable world models?

Could Google’s Veo 3 be the start of playable world mod...

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, hinted Tuesday evening that Veo 3, Googl...

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Substack brings new updates to livestreaming as it increases video push

Substack brings new updates to livestreaming as it incr...

The recent update enables creators to share clips of their live videos on Notes,...

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Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gravity production

Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gra...

Lucid sold 3,309 vehicles in the second quarter, a new record for the EV maker....

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Wonder Dynamics co-founder Nikola Todorovic joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Wonder Dynamics co-founder Nikola Todorovic joins the A...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is back at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27...

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OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’

OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’

OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood's sale of "OpenAI tokens" will not giv...

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Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner ...

Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Cl...

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Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s Wor...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification a...

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Week in Review:  Meta’s AI recruiting blitz

Week in Review:  Meta’s AI recruiting blitz

Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week, including Travis...

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Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, De...

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In just 4 months, AI medical scribe  Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B

In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles va...

Abridge nabbed a $300 million Series E led by a16z, months after it closed its p...

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Facebook Group admins complain of mass bans — Meta says it’s fixing the problem

Facebook Group admins complain of mass bans — Meta says...

The bans have affected thousands of groups both in the U.S. and abroad and have ...

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New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models

New data highlights the race to build more empathetic l...

One sign of that focus came on Friday, when prominent open source group LAION re...

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India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation

India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty le...

What has made GoKwik so attractive to investors is its offerings, which help com...

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How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category

How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud...

Synthflow AI was founded in 2023 and has amassed more than 1,000 customers and h...

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Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will re...

Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 ...

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TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, the new age of micromobility, and Waymo’s wild week 

TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping va...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on ...

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Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ raises $15M from a16z

Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ rai...

Cluely's new funding comes roughly two months after it raised $5.3 million in se...

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $1...

Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief...

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Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid

Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his ...

If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from conf...