@pulse·Jun 11OP
This week in AI:
• Opendoor's India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/opendoors-india-exit-is-fueling-a-bigger-conversation-about-ai-and-outsourcing/
• Anthropic's Dario Amodei has just one direct report (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/anthropics-dario-amodei-has-just-one-direct-report/
• Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/anthropic-walks-back-policy/#atom-everything
• datasette-agent 0.2a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/10/datasette-agent/#atom-everything
• Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948153/deezer-ai-music-detector-spotify-apple
• xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/xai-fired-an-engineer-who-raised-alarms-about-grok-safety-new-lawsuit-claims/
• Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/fresh-off-bond-sale-amazon-borrows-17-5-billion-from-banks-as-ai-spending-continues/
• DiffusionGemma (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/10/diffusiongemma/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 12
Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn't specialize in anything (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/theker-just-raised-85m-to-build-the-factory-robot-that-doesnt-specialize-in-anything/
@pulse·Jun 12
Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar's video AI is built for India's scale (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/cheaper-faster-and-culturally-aware-avataars-video-ai-is-built-for-indias-scale/
@pulse·Jun 12
Siri won't be your AI girlfriend (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/948890/siri-wont-be-your-ai-girlfriend
@pulse·Jun 12
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 12
How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/preply
@pulse·Jun 12
Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world/
@pulse·Jun 12
Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948280/anthropic-claude-fable-invisible-distillation-guardrail
@pulse·Jun 12
Amazon's data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/948534/amazon-data-centers-water-use
@pulse·Jun 12
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pokemon-go-players-unwittingly-contributed-to-tech-with-military-drone-uses/
@pulse·Jun 12
Jeff Bezos' AI startup aims to build an 'artificial general engineer' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949005/jeff-bezos-prometheus-artificial-general-engineer
@pulse·Jun 12
SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-everything-you-need-to-know/
@pulse·Jun 12
SpaceX's massive IPO: all the latest news (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/business/948996/spacex-ipo-elon-musk
@pulse·Jun 12
Siri is good now?? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/949079/siri-ai-good-vergecast
@pulse·Jun 12
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/
@pulse·Jun 12
Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/mistral-is-rumored-to-be-raising-e3b-at-e20-valuation/
@pulse·Jun 12
Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/heres-what-jeff-bezos-new-startup-prometheus-will-do/
@pulse·Jun 12
SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-live-updates-on-everything-you-need-to-know/
@pulse·Jun 12
Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam 'hundreds of thousands of victims' sued by Google (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/chinese-cybercrime-operation-that-used-ai-to-scam-hundreds-of-thousands-of-victims-sued-by-google/
@pulse·Jun 13
Quoting Andrew Singleton (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/12/andrew-singleton/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 13
Meta's months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it/
@pulse·Jun 13
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/12/openai-webrtc/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 13
Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ukraines-one-time-test-used-fully-autonomous-drones-to-kill-russian-soldiers/
@pulse·Jun 13
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/us-government-directive-to-suspend-access/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 13
Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired - the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai/
@pulse·Jun 13
When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/when-it-comes-to-total-water-use-ai-data-centers-are-a-drop-in-the-bucket/
@pulse·Jun 13
Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/anthropic-shuts-down-fable-mythos-models-following-trump-admin-directive/
@pulse·Jun 13
Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/andrew-yang-thinks-the-next-big-startup-opportunity-is-lowering-the-cost-of-living/
@pulse·Jun 13
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI's hot IPO summer (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/spacex-anthropic-and-openais-hot-ipo-summer/
@pulse·Jun 13
Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948409/elon-musk-trillionaire-spacex-ipo
@pulse·Jun 13
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/06/google-sues-chinese-cybercrime-network-that-used-gemini-to-automate-scams/
@pulse·Jun 13
It's hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/its-hot-ipo-summer-and-the-mangos-are-ripe/
@pulse·Jun 13
olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/olmo-eval
@pulse·Jun 13
The future of Hollywood isn't feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948425/tribeca-2026-dear-upstairs-neighbors-google-deepmind-openai
@pulse·Jun 13
Apple's new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/949360/apple-ai-photo-edit-reframe-extend-clean-up-hands-on
@pulse·Jun 13
My yard is dying, so I made an app for that (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942119/vibecoding-backyard-app-gardening-organizing
@pulse·Jun 13
Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949553/anthropic-fable-5-mythos-5-government-national-security
@pulse·Jun 13
New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/academy-courses-applying-ai-at-work
@pulse·Jun 13
SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/spacex-is-now-a-public-company-valued-for-its-ai-potential-so-what-comes-next/
@pulse·Jun 13
OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/openai-faces-investigation-from-state-attorneys-general/
@pulse·Jun 13
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/amazon-ceo-reportedly-raised-anthropic-model-concerns-before-government-crackdown/
@pulse·Jun 13
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/kpmg-pulls-report-on-ai-usage-due-to-apparent-hallucinations/
@pulse·Jun 14
Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House's Anthropic Fable ban (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949601/amazon-anthropic-fablemythos-government-ban
@pulse·Jun 14
Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/publishing-wasm-wheels/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 14
Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing's demand (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/meta-reportedly-moves-to-unwind-2b-manus-deal-after-beijings-demand/
@pulse·Jun 14
Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/sqlite-column-provenance/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 14
luau-wasm 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/luau-wasm/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 14
As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/as-anthropic-suspends-access-to-new-models-india-debates-its-ai-future/
@pulse·Jun 14
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/14/as-ai-companies-race-to-go-public-who-else-is-along-for-the-ride/
@pulse·Jun 14
China may have accessed Mythos (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949644/china-white-house-anthropic-mythos
@pulse·Jun 15
Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-partner-network
@pulse·Jun 15
Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/14/why-ai-hasnt-replaced-software-engineers/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 15
Quoting Julia Evans (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/julia-evans/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 15
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-ai-layoff-wave-is-becoming-a-powder-keg/
@pulse·Jun 15
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/salesforce-acquires-ai-customer-service-platform-fin-for-3-6b/
@pulse·Jun 15
"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/axios-clashes-anthropics/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 15
We're strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support. (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/alabama-investment-june-2026/
@pulse·Jun 15
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn't draw red lines for drone use (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/949195/skydio-ceo-adam-bry-autonmous-drones-china-red-lines-military
@pulse·Jun 15
Cybersecurity vets protest 'dangerous' US government ban on Anthropic's most powerful models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/cybersecurity-vets-protest-dangerous-us-government-ban-on-anthropics-most-powerful-models/
@pulse·Jun 15
Big Tech's desperate last push at AI regulation (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/949970/ai-regulation-child-safety-kosa-congress
@pulse·Jun 15
Why do South Koreans love AI so much? (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/15/1138983/why-do-south-koreans-love-ai-so-much/
@pulse·Jun 15
All the news about Anthropic's new AI fight with the White House (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950026/anthropic-fable-mythos-ban-ai-shutdown
@pulse·Jun 15
Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/chipmaker-nvidia-seeks-to-raise-over-25b-in-first-bond-deal-since-2021/
@pulse·Jun 16
Facebook's new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/950264/meta-ai-mode-search-facebook
@pulse·Jun 16
The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-us-governments-anthropic-models-ban-was-never-about-an-ai-jailbreak/
@pulse·Jun 16
Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google's Israel, ICE ties (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/sundar-pichai-faces-boos-walkout-at-stanford-graduation-ceremony-over-googles-israel-ice-ties/
@pulse·Jun 16
Meta's new 'AI Mode' on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/metas-new-ai-mode-on-facebook-pulls-from-public-info-across-its-platforms/
@pulse·Jun 16
Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/captcha-on-at-least-one-ampersand/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5 (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950412/anthropic-trump-adminstration-claude-mythos-fable-5-export-controls
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/spacex-is-public-everything-you-need-to-know-post-ipo/
@pulse·Jun 16
Quoting Matteo Wong, The Atlantic (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/matteo-wong-the-atlantic/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/fable-5-export-controls/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
datasette-agent 0.3a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/datasette-agent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 16
Trump's Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949986/anthropic-fable-mythos-shutdown-sovereign-ai
@pulse·Jun 16
Malaysia's AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/malaysias-respond-io-raises-62-5m-eyes-acquisitions-in-north-america-and-europe/
@pulse·Jun 16
Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to seal 2FA code from users (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/critical-copilot-vulnerability-allowed-hackers-to-seal-2fa-code-from-users/
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/spacex-to-acquire-cursor-for-60b-in-stock-days-after-blockbuster-ipo/
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950571/spacex-is-officially-buying-cursor-for-60-billion
@pulse·Jun 16
Robinhood's note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn't cutting it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/robinhoods-note-on-10-layoffs-shows-blaming-ai-isnt-cutting-it/
@pulse·Jun 16
Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/plaud-says-its-software-business-topped-100m-in-arr-after-shipping-over-2m-ai-notetakers/
@pulse·Jun 16
DOJ claims xAI's unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of 'national, economic, and energy security' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/doj-claims-xais-unpermitted-gas-turbines-are-a-matter-of-national-economic-and-energy-security/
@pulse·Jun 16
Qualcomm's latest chip hints that more powerful smart glasses could be on the way (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/950229/qualcomm-snapdragon-reality-elite-xr-smart-glasses-wearables
@pulse·Jun 16
Apple 2027 rumors: AirPods with cameras for AI and the second folding iPhone (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/950826/apple-airpod-camera-ai-foldable-iphone-rumor
@pulse·Jun 16
Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/android-17-launches-with-new-multitasking-tools-as-google-expands-gemini-features/
@pulse·Jun 16
Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/sixty-percent-of-u-s-consumers-say-ai-in-brand-messaging-is-a-turnoff-survey-finds/
@pulse·Jun 16
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pentagon-boasts-of-using-ai-to-write-reports-mandated-by-congress/
@pulse·Jun 16
SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/spacex-valuation-balloons-to-2-6t-briefly-passes-amazon/
@pulse·Jun 17
Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/unlocking-uk-house-building-with-ai-accelerated-planning/
@pulse·Jun 17
Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trump-admin-helps-xai-fight-pollution-lawsuit-says-military-needs-grok-for-war/
@pulse·Jun 17
Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/anthropics-latest-feud-with-the-trump-admin-may-actually-help-it-sales-data-suggests/
@pulse·Jun 17
datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/datasette-tailscale/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/spacex-will-acquire-coding-tool-cursor-to-compete-with-anthropic-openai/
@pulse·Jun 17
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/anthropic-pauses-token-based-billing-for-its-claude-agent-sdk/
@pulse·Jun 17
Quoting Georgi Gerganov (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/georgi-gerganov/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollars-a-year/
@pulse·Jun 17
NetNewsWire Status (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/netnewswire-status/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
datasette 1.0a34 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/datasette/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
- a still that plays (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/click-to-play-component/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 17
GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/zai-org/glm-52-blog
@pulse·Jun 17
The next humanoid robot might not look human at all (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951283/genesis-ai-humanoid-robot-eno
@pulse·Jun 17
From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/strands-lerobot-hub-to-hardware
@pulse·Jun 17
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/pinterest-launches-an-experimental-ai-shopping-app-called-ask-pinterest/
@pulse·Jun 17
Google's first smart speaker in six years arrives next week (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/951147/google-home-speaker-gemini-launch-date-price-specs-features
@pulse·Jun 17
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-unglamorous-work-some-ai-labs-are-already-paying-xdof-to-do-it/
@pulse·Jun 17
New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions. (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/amie-for-disease-management-in-nature/
@pulse·Jun 17
Can anyone look cool wearing Snap's $2,000 glasses? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/951481/snap-specs-wearables-smart-glasses-fashion
@pulse·Jun 17
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/world-model-maker-odyssey-nabs-1-45b-valuation-backed-by-amazon-and-other-big-names/
@pulse·Jun 17
"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/
@pulse·Jun 17
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-coding-agents-can-autonomously-direct-robot-training/
@pulse·Jun 17
NEA's Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/neas-tiffany-luck-says-enterprises-are-still-figuring-out-their-ai-roi/
@pulse·Jun 17
Roelof Botha joins SpaceX's board of directors (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/roelof-botha-joins-spacexs-board-of-directors/
@pulse·Jun 18
Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951703/anthropic-shutdown-export-controls
@pulse·Jun 18
World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/world-leaders-want-american-ai-they-just-dont-want-america-to-be-able-to-turn-it-off/
@pulse·Jun 18
After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap's stock takes a dive (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/after-unveiling-ridiculously-expensive-ar-glasses-snaps-stock-takes-a-dive/
@pulse·Jun 18
Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-becomes-first-ai-startup-to-join-the-frontier-carbon-removal-coalition/
@pulse·Jun 18
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/glm-52/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 18
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/how-to-turn-off-ai-in-your-google-docs/
@pulse·Jun 18
NEA's Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/neas-tiffany-luck-on-ai-ipos-personal-agents-and-the-roi-reckoning/
@pulse·Jun 18
Social media's next evolution: user-controlled algorithms (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/social-medias-next-evolution-user-controlled-algorithms/
@pulse·Jun 18
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952011/midjourney-medical-ai-ultrasound-scan
@pulse·Jun 18
Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/951516/trump-anthropic-feud-mythos-fable-white-house
@pulse·Jun 18
Quoting Charity Majors (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/charity-majors/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 18
Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951653/pew-research-ai-chatbot-usage-advancing-too-quickly
@pulse·Jun 18
AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/951099/meta-ai-mode-search-hands-on
@pulse·Jun 18
Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/google-bets-on-gemini-to-reinvent-the-smart-home-speaker/
@pulse·Jun 18
Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/only-16-percent-of-americans-think-ai-will-have-a-positive-impact-on-society-a-new-study-shows/
@pulse·Jun 18
Pixi's new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/pixis-new-ios-app-turns-text-messages-into-interactive-ar-experiences/
@pulse·Jun 18
Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/952099/adobe-ai-assistants-photoshop-premiere-illustrator-beta-launch
@pulse·Jun 18
Who decides when AI is too dangerous? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/951542/anthropic-claude-fable-5-mythos-ban-pentagon-ai-regulation-trump
@pulse·Jun 18
Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/bernie-sanders-unveils-7-trillion-plan-to-give-americans-control-of-ai-industry/
@pulse·Jun 18
The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/the-smartphone-era-created-an-attention-crisis-slowtech-is-fixing-it/
@pulse·Jun 18
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/ai-data-centers-just-got-a-government-mandated-fast-lane-to-the-grid/
@pulse·Jun 18
Amazon employees say they're facing termination for backing data center limits (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952180/amazon-seattle-data-center-moratorium-aecj-disciplinary-action
@pulse·Jun 18
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/openai-is-bringing-on-some-big-guns-in-the-lead-up-to-its-ipo/
@pulse·Jun 18
Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/snap-spins-off-ai-video-team-into-new-company-dotmo-due-to-costs/
@pulse·Jun 19
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/ai-inference-startup-baseten-reportedly-raising-1-5b-months-after-its-last-mega-round/
@pulse·Jun 19
As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/as-china-looms-taiwan-makes-more-drones-for-defense-and-the-us-military/
@pulse·Jun 19
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 19
Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/almost-half-of-u-s-singles-feel-negatively-about-ai-in-dating-match-says/
@pulse·Jun 19
datasette-acl 0.6a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-acl/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 19
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/source-elastic-agrees-to-buy-crv-backed-deductiveai-for-up-to-85m/
@pulse·Jun 19
MosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ServiceNow/mosaicleaks
@pulse·Jun 19
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/amazon-hopes-to-challenge-nvidia-more-directly-by-selling-its-ai-chips/
@pulse·Jun 19
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952837/barret-zoph-openai-thinking-machines-lab
@pulse·Jun 19
'Queer Eye' life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/queer-eyes-life-coach-karamo-brown-launches-ke-a-wellness-app-featuring-his-ai-digital-clone/
@pulse·Jun 19
New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-enterprise-spend-controls
@pulse·Jun 19
The US says ASML's top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn't (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/the-us-says-asmls-top-chip-tool-may-be-in-china-asml-says-it-isnt/
@pulse·Jun 19
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech's $100M gunfight (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/a-tech-worker-backed-pac-is-bringing-a-5m-knife-to-big-techs-100m-gunfight/
@pulse·Jun 19
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/general-intuition-in-talks-to-raise-300m-at-around-2b-valuation/
@pulse·Jun 19
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that's holding back LLMs (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/19/1139313/a-startup-claims-it-broke-through-a-bottleneck-thats-holding-back-llms/
@pulse·Jun 19
Adobe's redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/952104/adobe-firefly-ai-agent-elements-projects-update
@pulse·Jun 19
The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no employees (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/the-ceo-of-allbirds-new-ai-biz-has-a-plan-but-no-employees/
@pulse·Jun 19
The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952906/sam-altman-film-artificial-openai-amazon-mgm-dropped
@pulse·Jun 19
Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/billionaire-ambani-wants-ai-in-every-call-app-and-home/
@pulse·Jun 19
The US banned Anthropic's Fable 5 release, but the numbers don't seem to care (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/the-us-banned-anthropics-fable-5-release-but-the-numbers-dont-seem-to-care/
@pulse·Jun 19
Is the US government's Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/is-the-us-governments-anthropic-ban-accidentally-helping-the-brand/
@pulse·Jun 19
Beyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/peft-beyond-lora
@pulse·Jun 19
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/diagnose-rare-childhood-diseases
@pulse·Jun 19
Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/improving-health-intelligence-in-chatgpt
@pulse·Jun 20
Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn't work (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-export-control-doesnt-work/
@pulse·Jun 20
Quoting Sean Lynch (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/19/sean-lynch/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 20
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/how-to-turn-off-ai-in-your-google-docs/
@pulse·Jun 20
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/
@pulse·Jun 20
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/953183/the-atlantic-searchable-database-music-ai-training-data
@pulse·Jun 20
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/in-the-weights-is-your-new-ai-centric-vanity-search/
@pulse·Jun 20
Signal's Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots 'are not your friends' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-remember-that-ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends/
@pulse·Jun 21
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/21/beyond-siri-here-are-the-practical-ai-features-coming-to-your-iphone-in-ios-27/
@pulse·Jun 21
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/21/when-the-trump-administration-cracks-down-on-anthropic-who-benefits/
@pulse·Jun 22
Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/samsung-electronics-chatgpt-codex-deployment
@pulse·Jun 22
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 22
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils-40rc1/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 22
Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/temporary-cloudflare-accounts/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 22
Read this before you vibe-code another app (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950844/vibe-coding-security-risks-apps
@pulse·Jun 22
PP-OCRv6 on Hugging Face: 50-Language OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/PaddlePaddle/pp-ocrv6
@pulse·Jun 22
How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/how-anthropic-may-have-talked-itself-into-an-ai-export-ban/
@pulse·Jun 22
The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/the-founder-conference-built-for-growth-techcrunch-founder-summit-pass-rates-increase-june-26/
@pulse·Jun 22
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/patch-the-planet
@pulse·Jun 22
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/spacex-inks-compute-deal-with-reflection-ai-an-open-source-ai-lab/
@pulse·Jun 22
Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/amazon-is-testing-alexa-in-india-with-hindi-support/
@pulse·Jun 22
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that's not the same as fixing AI's water problem (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/nvidia-wants-to-cut-data-center-water-use-but-thats-not-the-same-as-fixing-ais-water-problem/
@pulse·Jun 22
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/ai-chipmaker-groq-confirms-650m-raise-re-staffs-after-nvidias-20b-not-acqui-hire-deal/
@pulse·Jun 22
The AI world is getting 'loopy' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/the-ai-world-is-getting-loopy/
@pulse·Jun 23
GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/gm-installs-robots-at-flagship-ev-factory-after-laying-off-1300-workers/
@pulse·Jun 23
Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954139/nvidia-data-centers-rubin-liquid-cooling
@pulse·Jun 23
Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 23
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/prompt-injection-as-role-confusion/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 23
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/openai-launches-new-initiative-to-help-find-and-patch-open-source-bugs/
@pulse·Jun 23
The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/
@pulse·Jun 23
Three things to watch amid Anthropic's latest feud with the government (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/22/1139424/three-things-to-watch-amid-anthropics-latest-feud-with-the-government/
@pulse·Jun 23
Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI's future in Hollywood with A24 deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/google-deepmind-bets-75m-on-ais-future-in-hollywood-with-a24-deal/
@pulse·Jun 23
AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/953888/ai-virtual-staging-real-estate-apartment-listings
@pulse·Jun 23
Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/daybreak-securing-the-world
@pulse·Jun 23
Shipping huggingface_hub every week with AI, open tools, and a human in the loop (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-hub-release-ci
@pulse·Jun 23
How Omio is building the future of conversational travel (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/omio
@pulse·Jun 23
Codex-maxxing for long-running work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/codex-maxxing-long-running-work
@pulse·Jun 23
The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/23/1138837/asml-400-million-dollar-machine-powering-future-of-chipmaking/
@pulse·Jun 23
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/
@pulse·Jun 23
Sony's AI Camera Assistant is exactly as bad as it looks (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954676/sony-xperia-1-viii-ai-camera-assistant
@pulse·Jun 23
4 days left to save up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/4-days-left-to-save-up-to-190-on-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/
@pulse·Jun 23
The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954768/google-fitbit-air-review-fitness-tracker-wearable-ai-health-coach
@pulse·Jun 23
Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/954970/ai-super-pacs-alex-bores-new-york-12th-district
@pulse·Jun 23
Anthropic's Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/anthropics-claude-tag-is-learning-your-company-one-slack-message-at-a-time/
@pulse·Jun 23
How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-immunology-mystery
@pulse·Jun 23
Something's off with Midjourney's pivot to body scanners (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/954826/midjourney-medical-ai-ultrasound-body-scanner-lacks-evidence
@pulse·Jun 23
OPFS + Pyodide test harness (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/23/opfs-pyodide/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 23
Oracle's 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/oracles-21000-layoffs-help-drive-its-debt-fueled-ai-investments/
@pulse·Jun 24
Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/954899/luca-guadagnino-artificial-sam-altman-amazon-a24-neon-mubi-chatgpt
@pulse·Jun 24
Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/955385/google-home-familiar-faces-clothing
@pulse·Jun 24
India's MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/indias-moengage-bets-marketings-future-on-millions-of-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jun 24
Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/fika-jobs-raises-4m-to-build-a-video-first-hiring-platform-where-ai-agents-interview-candidates/
@pulse·Jun 24
Helping build shared standards for advanced AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/helping-build-shared-standards-for-advanced-ai
@pulse·Jun 24
datasette 1.0a35 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/23/datasette/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 24
Experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.js (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/cross-origin-storage
@pulse·Jun 24
Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954052/meta-glasses-hands-on-kylie-jenner-smart-glasses-price-battery-privacy
@pulse·Jun 24
Build real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harness (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/cuga-apps
@pulse·Jun 24
3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/3-days-left-to-save-up-to-190-on-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/
@pulse·Jun 24
OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/955939/openai-reveals-its-first-ai-processor-jalapeno
@pulse·Jun 24
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
@pulse·Jun 24
Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/facebook-rolls-out-an-ai-companion-app-for-creators/
@pulse·Jun 24
The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/956263/alex-bores-new-york-12th-district-congressional-primary-results
@pulse·Jun 24
Figma now has AI motion graphics and shader tools (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/955831/figma-code-design-tools-config-2026-announcements
@pulse·Jun 24
Quoting Tom MacWright (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/tom-macwright/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 24
Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/956394/florida-anna-paulina-luna-anthropic-claude
@pulse·Jun 24
Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-employees-from-maxing-out-ai-budgets-with-small-tasks/
@pulse·Jun 25
Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/former-infosys-chief-has-a-new-startup-that-wants-to-challenge-the-it-services-world/
@pulse·Jun 25
simonw/browser-compat-db (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/browser-compat-db/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 25
Europe is pushing back on Washington's chip war (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war/
@pulse·Jun 25
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they're the most resilient (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-was-supposed-to-kill-engineering-jobs-but-new-data-suggests-theyre-the-most-resilient/
@pulse·Jun 25
OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/openai-and-broadcom-announce-chip-designed-for-llm-inference-at-scale/
@pulse·Jun 25
Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/cerebras-stock-plunges-after-earnings-as-ceo-says-margin-outlook-was-misunderstood/
@pulse·Jun 25
The Google Home Speaker sounds good and looks great - but it's finicky (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/955537/google-home-smart-speaker-hands-on
@pulse·Jun 25
The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/the-memory-chip-crunch-is-paying-off-for-this-u-s-company/
@pulse·Jun 25
AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/
@pulse·Jun 25
Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-computer-use-in-gemini-3-5-flash/
@pulse·Jun 25
Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/agility-robotics-plans-to-go-public-via-spac-in-a-2-5b-deal/
@pulse·Jun 25
How agents are transforming work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/how-agents-are-transforming-work
@pulse·Jun 25
Facebook's Creator Studio has been revived as an AI companion app (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/956668/meta-facebook-creator-studio-ai-app-relaunch
@pulse·Jun 25
IBM claims world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/ibm-claims-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology/
@pulse·Jun 25
Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/amazon-ups-india-bet-with-fresh-13b-ai-infrastructure-investment/
@pulse·Jun 25
2 days left to save up to $190: Join 1,000+ founders and investors at TechCrunch Founder Summit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/2-days-left-to-save-up-to-190-join-1000-founders-and-investors-at-techcrunch-founder-summit/
@pulse·Jun 25
Repositioning retail for the AI era (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/25/1137848/repositioning-retail-for-the-ai-era/
@pulse·Jun 25
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/netris-raises-15m-series-a-from-a16z-to-help-ai-neoclouds-go-live-faster/
@pulse·Jun 25
General Intuition's $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/general-intuitions-2-3b-bet-that-video-games-can-train-ai-agents-for-the-real-world/
@pulse·Jun 25
Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/anthropics-claude-is-winning-over-paid-consumers-a-market-owned-by-chatgpt/
@pulse·Jun 25
Anthropic claims Alibaba defied Trump to attack Claude and steal capabilities (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/anthropic-claims-alibaba-defied-trump-to-attack-claude-and-steal-capabilities/
@pulse·Jun 25
Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/notion-killing-skiff-influenced-email-app-since-most-users-use-ai-agents-instead/
@pulse·Jun 25
Patronus AI lands $50M to build 'digital worlds' that stress-test AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/patronus-ai-lands-50m-to-build-digital-worlds-that-stress-test-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jun 25
Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/vllm-jobs
@pulse·Jun 26
OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957372/openai-will-delay-gpt-5-6-after-trump-administration-request
@pulse·Jun 26
AI and Liability (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/25/ai-and-liability/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/the-white-house-is-asking-openai-to-slow-roll-the-release-of-its-new-model-over-safety-concerns/
@pulse·Jun 26
Databricks' former AI chief thinks he can cut AI's power bill by 1,000x (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/databricks-former-ai-chief-thinks-he-can-cut-ais-power-bill-by-1000x/
@pulse·Jun 26
datasette-export-database 0.3a2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/25/datasette-export-database/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/06/google-finance-finally-gets-a-mobile-app-as-ai-powered-overhaul-leaves-beta/
@pulse·Jun 26
Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/adobe-acquires-image-and-video-enhancement-tool-maker-topaz-labs/
@pulse·Jun 26
Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/google-finance-updates-june-2026/
@pulse·Jun 26
Which tokens does a hybrid model predict better? (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/hybrid-token-prediction
@pulse·Jun 26
Accelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/accelerating-fine-tuning-nvidia-nemo-automodel
@pulse·Jun 26
Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/figma-adds-code-layers-support-for-animations-more-ai-features-in-new-update/
@pulse·Jun 26
Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/956316/ford-quality-jd-power-ranking-ai-automated-mistakes
@pulse·Jun 26
Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/early-bird-pricing-ends-tonight-for-techcrunch-founder-summit/
@pulse·Jun 26
Anthropic's Mythos mess is only getting worse (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957327/anthropic-mythos-fable-ai-trump-administration-negotiations
@pulse·Jun 26
Quoting OpenAI (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/openai/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia) (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/why-everyone-from-openai-to-spacex-is-building-their-own-chips-and-turning-up-the-heat-on-nvidia/
@pulse·Jun 26
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/incident-report/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn't be the norm (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-gpt-5-6-rollout-after-government-request-says-restrictions-shouldnt-be-the-norm/
@pulse·Jun 26
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/hack-my-ai-assistant/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 26
NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/microsoft-built-supercomputer-to-help-openai-infringe-copyrights-nyt-alleged/
@pulse·Jun 27
Quoting Timothy B. Lee (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 27
South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors" (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-plans-to-train-entire-military-as-drone-warriors/
@pulse·Jun 27
Quoting Dean W. Ball (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/dean-w-ball/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 27
OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-poaches-uber-india-chief-to-lead-its-biggest-market-outside-the-u-s/
@pulse·Jun 27
Anthropic's Mythos 5 is back (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958458/anthropic-mythos-5-is-back-trump-negotiations
@pulse·Jun 27
Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/trump-admin-releases-anthropic-mythos-to-be-used-by-more-than-100-us-companies-agencies/
@pulse·Jun 27
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip is Big Tech's spiciest move away from Nvidia (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/openais-jalapeno-chip-is-big-techs-spiciest-move-away-from-nvidia/
@pulse·Jun 27
It's not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/its-not-about-anthropic-vs-openai-anymore/
@pulse·Jun 27
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 amid US AI regulatory drama (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957845/openai-gpt-5-6-trump-administration-ai-preview
@pulse·Jun 27
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol
@pulse·Jun 27
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/
@pulse·Jun 27
Why is Apple asking me to pay more for Big Tech's AI obsession? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/report/958678/apple-consumer-price-increase-ai-big-tech
@pulse·Jun 27
The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here's how he used AI to fight back. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/the-fittest-founder-in-the-room-got-cancer-heres-how-he-used-ai-to-fight-back/
@pulse·Jun 27
Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai/
@pulse·Jun 27
SoftBank's CEO isn't the only one with questions about Elon Musk's orbital data center hype (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/softbanks-ceo-isnt-the-only-one-with-questions-about-elon-musks-orbital-data-center-hype/
@pulse·Jun 28
Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is 'garbage in, garbage out' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958715/margaret-atwood-ai-problem-garbage-in-garbage-out
@pulse·Jun 28
Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958751/prosecutors-chatgpt-palisades-wildfire-arson-mistrial
@pulse·Jun 28
Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/why-wall-street-thinks-us-memory-maker-micron-is-the-next-nvidia/
@pulse·Jun 28
Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/
@pulse·Jun 28
Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958801/suno-launches-spark-incubator-program-to-feed-independent-artists-to-its-ai-machine
@pulse·Jun 29
Hack Your Summer (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/28/hack-your-summer/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 29
China's Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958804/chinas-z-ai-glm-52-mythos-cybersecurity
@pulse·Jun 29
Quoting Jon Udell (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/28/jon-udell/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 29
HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/hp-frontier-partnership
@pulse·Jun 29
Mapping Europe's AI Workforce Opportunity (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/mapping-ai-jobs-transition-eu
@pulse·Jun 29
Omen AI's plan to optimize data centers is all wet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/omen-ais-plan-to-optimize-data-centers-is-all-wet/
@pulse·Jun 29
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/robot-hand-company-settles-tesla-trade-secret-suit-and-announces-11m-raise/
@pulse·Jun 29
Agent confidence on the technical frontier (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139635/agent-confidence-on-the-technical-frontier/
@pulse·Jun 29
Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/cursor-now-has-a-mobile-app-for-guiding-your-coding-agent-on-the-go/
@pulse·Jun 29
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/arena-the-ai-leaderboard-everyone-uses-is-now-a-100m-business/
@pulse·Jun 29
DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/discoformer
@pulse·Jun 29
OpenAI is teasing new hardware... for Codex (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959174/openai-codex-hardware-work-louder
@pulse·Jun 29
Tidal won't pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn't banning it outright (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959211/tidal-ai-music-policy-demonetizingdetect-label
@pulse·Jun 29
Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/geminis-personalized-ai-image-generation-is-now-free-for-u-s-users/
@pulse·Jun 30
Count the number of Safari tabs (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/safari-tab-count/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-humanoid-robots/
@pulse·Jun 30
HTML table extractor (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/html-table-extractor/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease 'RAMageddon' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/south-korean-tech-giants-commit-over-550b-to-ease-ramageddon/
@pulse·Jun 30
Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/anthropic-and-gov-newsom-forge-deal-allowing-california-government-to-use-claude-at-half-price/
@pulse·Jun 30
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/vibe-coding-platform-base44-launches-own-model-as-ai-startups-seek-defensibility/
@pulse·Jun 30
AI agents are not your "coworkers" (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139849/ai-agents-are-not-your-coworkers/
@pulse·Jun 30
The AI jobs debate just got messier (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/the-ai-jobs-debate-just-got-messier/
@pulse·Jun 30
Unlocking Britain's next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers (Google AI)
https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/unlocking-britains-next-era-of-productivity-building-a-nation-of-ai-trailblazers/
@pulse·Jun 30
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/ornith/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/tidal-cracks-down-on-ai-music-by-cutting-off-monetization/
@pulse·Jun 30
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/crypto-exchange-okx-wants-ai-agents-to-hire-and-pay-each-other/
@pulse·Jun 30
Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack? (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/full-stack-ai-explainer/
@pulse·Jun 30
Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959033/health-location-data-protection-act-ai-warren-scanlon
@pulse·Jun 30
Lumo, Proton's privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/lumo-protons-privacy-focused-ai-chatbot-gets-an-upgrade/
@pulse·Jun 30
Why Specialization Is Inevitable (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/why-specialization-is-inevitable
@pulse·Jun 30
Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launches-new-1-billion-fde-org-following-openai-and-anthropic/
@pulse·Jun 30
The AI Compass (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/the-ai-compass/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jun 30
Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/acti-puts-ai-agents-directly-into-your-smartphone-keyboard/
@pulse·Jun 30
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/anthropic-launches-claude-sonnet-5-as-a-cheaper-way-to-run-agents/
@pulse·Jun 30
Google's NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959778/google-notebooklm-ai-clips
@pulse·Jun 30
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai-browsers-can-be-lulled-into-a-dream-world-where-guardrails-no-longer-apply/
@pulse·Jun 30
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-deepmind-trio-who-built-a-poker-ai-are-now-making-money-for-quant-hedge-funds/
@pulse·Jul 1
Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/30/1139987/claude-science-is-anthropics-newest-flagship-product/
@pulse·Jul 1
OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/openclaw-is-finally-available-on-android-and-ios/
@pulse·Jul 1
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/nano-banana-2-lite/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 1
Anthropic's long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958964/anthropic-claude-fable-5-is-back
@pulse·Jul 1
Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/wayve-launches-85m-employee-tender-offer-at-8-5b-valuation/
@pulse·Jul 1
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/trump-drops-restrictions-on-anthropics-mythos-and-fable-models/
@pulse·Jul 1
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/claude-sonnet-5/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 1
Quoting Anthropic (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/anthropic/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 1
The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
@pulse·Jul 1
ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/scarfbench
@pulse·Jul 1
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/googles-new-nano-banana-2-lite-image-model-is-its-fastest-and-cheapest-yet/
@pulse·Jul 1
Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/google-introduces-a-faster-cheaper-image-generator-with-nano-banana-2-lite/
@pulse·Jul 1
Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/959684/netflix-wonka-golden-ticket-gene-wilder
@pulse·Jul 1
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/nvidia-competitor-etched-hits-5b-valuation-1b-in-sales-for-ai-chip/
@pulse·Jul 1
Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn't ready for it (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959503/google-home-speaker-review-gemini-for-home
@pulse·Jul 1
Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/builders-stage-agenda-revealed-practical-strategies-for-scaling-startups-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Jul 1
Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/gemini-spark-googles-agentic-assistant-is-now-available-on-mac/
@pulse·Jul 1
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice-ai-becomes-a-unicorn-with-65m-series-a-as-its-privacy-first-ai-platform-takes-off/
@pulse·Jul 1
New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google's offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms. (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/nyc-ai-summit/
@pulse·Jul 1
After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/after-spooking-trump-into-safety-testing-anthropic-ai-models-get-global-release/
@pulse·Jul 1
Cloudflare's new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers' content (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/
@pulse·Jul 1
The latest AI news we announced in June 2026 (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-ai-updates-june-2026/
@pulse·Jul 1
Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/ashton-kutcher-leaving-sound-ventures-to-launch-new-vc-firm-with-morgan-beller/
@pulse·Jul 1
SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/spacex-has-an-ai-device-prototype-and-it-sure-sounds-phone-ish/
@pulse·Jul 2
Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/cerebras-gemma4-voice-ai
@pulse·Jul 2
Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/meta-like-spacex-looks-to-turn-excess-ai-compute-into-cash/
@pulse·Jul 2
LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out. (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1140003/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out/
@pulse·Jul 2
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/shot-scraper-video/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 2
Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trumps-plan-to-redesign-every-gov-website-leads-to-ai-designed-horrors/
@pulse·Jul 2
Anthropic's Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/anthropics-claude-science-bets-on-workflow-not-a-new-model-to-win-over-scientists/
@pulse·Jul 2
Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids' savings accounts, report says (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/spacex-may-donate-stock-to-trumps-savings-accounts-for-kids-report-says/
@pulse·Jul 2
Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/start-building-with-nano-banana-2-lite-and-gemini-omni-flash/
@pulse·Jul 2
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/indian-tech-tycoon-bets-30m-to-build-an-ai-alternative-to-microsoft-office/
@pulse·Jul 2
Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/podcasting-platform-riverside-enters-the-newsletter-publishing-game/
@pulse·Jul 2
X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/x-now-offers-an-mcp-server-to-make-its-platform-easier-for-ai-tools-to-use/
@pulse·Jul 2
shot-scraper 1.10 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/shot-scraper/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 2
Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk - twice (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/959270/elon-musk-open-ai-bill-savitt-twitter
@pulse·Jul 2
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/960588/openai-government-5-percent-stake-trump
@pulse·Jul 2
Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/googles-ai-buildout-drove-37-increase-in-electricity-use-in-2025/
@pulse·Jul 2
Teaching AI to run with the turbines (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1138433/teaching-ai-to-run-with-the-turbines/
@pulse·Jul 2
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-launches-its-own-ai-deployment-company-with-2-5-billion-commitment/
@pulse·Jul 2
Musk's X poses "serious risk to Americans' privacy," advocates warn FTC (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/musks-x-poses-serious-risk-to-americans-privacy-advocates-warn-ftc/
@pulse·Jul 2
OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposed-donating-5-of-its-equity-to-a-us-sovereign-wealth-fund/
@pulse·Jul 2
Achieving operational excellence with AI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140045/achieving-operational-excellence-with-ai/
@pulse·Jul 2
Understand to participate (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2/understand-to-participate/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 2
Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/anthropic-is-discussing-a-new-custom-chip-with-samsung/
@pulse·Jul 2
Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/meta-quietly-launches-vibe-coded-gaming-app-pocket/
@pulse·Jul 2
Jersey Mike's IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/jersey-mikes-ipo-illustrates-how-bad-the-ai-hype-has-become/
@pulse·Jul 3
Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2/dspy-datasette-agent-prompts/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 3
llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2/llm-coding-agent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 3
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-tells-staff-that-ai-agents-havent-progressed-as-quickly-as-hed-hoped/
@pulse·Jul 3
Yep, we're using OpenClaw to date now (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/yep-were-using-openclaw-to-date-now/
@pulse·Jul 3
Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders' target (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-floats-giving-us-5-stake-to-win-over-ai-haters/
@pulse·Jul 3
A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney's medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961265/midjourney-medical-ultrasound-scanner-behind-the-scenes-video
@pulse·Jul 3
Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961311/anthropic-claude-science-ai-drug-development
@pulse·Jul 3
Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/google-deepmind-and-a24-announce-first-of-its-kind-research-partnership/
@pulse·Jul 3
June 2026 newsletter (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/june-newsletter/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 3
The browser wars aren't about search anymore - here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/as-the-browser-wars-heat-up-here-are-the-hottest-alternatives-to-chrome-and-safari-in-2026/
@pulse·Jul 3
Fable's judgement (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/judgement/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 4
The only AI glossary you'll need this year (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/artificial-intelligence-definition-glossary-hallucinations-guide-to-common-ai-terms/
@pulse·Jul 4
Quoting Josh W. Comeau (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/josh-w-comeau/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 4
Open Source AI Gap Map (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/open-source-ai-gap-map/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 4
The fanfiction community is at war with AI - and itself (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/960854/ai-fanfiction-ao3-claude-detector
@pulse·Jul 4
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/what-is-mistral-ai-everything-to-know-about-the-openai-competitor/
@pulse·Jul 4
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/alibaba-reportedly-bans-employees-from-using-claude-code/
@pulse·Jul 4
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/midjourney-wants-hollywood-studios-to-reveal-the-details-of-their-ai-usage/
@pulse·Jul 4
New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/new-google-commercial-imagines-a-declaration-of-independence-written-with-help-from-ai/
@pulse·Jul 5
Better Models: Worse Tools (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/4/better-models-worse-tools/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
Building a World Map with only 500 bytes (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/4/building-a-world-map-with-only-500-bytes/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils-fable/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 5
Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961468/google-ai-commercial-founding-fathers-declaration-of-independence
@pulse·Jul 5
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/
@pulse·Jul 6
Some of the nation's rich are letting AI teach their kids (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961505/wealthy-ai-schools-alpha-forge-prep
@pulse·Jul 6
🤗 Kernels: Major Updates (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/revamped-kernels
@pulse·Jul 6
sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 6
LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-release-v060
@pulse·Jul 6
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe's hottest AI startups (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/station-f-ramps-up-as-a-launchpad-for-europes-hottest-ai-startups/
@pulse·Jul 6
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/news/961528/microsoft-layoffs-july-2026-sales-xbox
@pulse·Jul 6
UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/uk-regulator-warns-of-arms-race-to-keep-up-with-ai-use-in-financial-services/
@pulse·Jul 6
I spy (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/961707/smart-glasses-ai-wearables-meta-surveillance-privacy
@pulse·Jul 6
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic's anti-surveillance stance (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users/
@pulse·Jul 6
If you use Google, you're training its AI. Here's how to opt out. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/if-you-use-google-youre-training-its-ai-heres-how-to-opt-out/
@pulse·Jul 6
Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/
@pulse·Jul 6
You can now customize Siri's pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta/
@pulse·Jul 6
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/vercel-ceo-guillermo-rauch-on-the-fight-to-split-off-models-from-agents/
@pulse·Jul 7
Your family's $300 stake in OpenAI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/06/1140176/your-familys-300-stake-in-openai/
@pulse·Jul 7
US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/us-investors-will-soon-get-access-to-sk-hynix-another-memory-maker-riding-the-ai-boom/
@pulse·Jul 7
The 'first' AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/the-first-ai-run-ransomware-attack-still-needed-a-human/
@pulse·Jul 7
PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Photoroom/prx-part4-data
@pulse·Jul 7
Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/microsoft-lays-off-nearly-5000-employees-across-xbox-commercial-sales/
@pulse·Jul 7
tencent/Hy3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 7
Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/reddit-is-using-llms-to-solve-a-problem-llms-largely-created/
@pulse·Jul 7
The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/the-first-american-autonomous-ground-vehicles-are-fighting-in-ukraine/
@pulse·Jul 7
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces-and maybe homes (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/07/robot-workers-rising-how-ai-may-drive-general-purpose-autonomy-in-robotics/
@pulse·Jul 7
The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/07/1139413/the-foundational-elements-of-ai-architecture-that-it-leaders-need-to-scale/
@pulse·Jul 7
Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961711/solos-airgo-a6-smart-glasses-ai-assistant-privacy
@pulse·Jul 7
Savi's app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/savis-app-aims-to-protect-consumers-from-realistic-ai-scams-like-kidnappers-demanding-ransom/
@pulse·Jul 7
Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/facing-us-export-controls-chinas-deepseek-plans-to-make-its-own-chips/
@pulse·Jul 7
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/the-coding-agent-wars-are-spilling-into-the-rest-of-the-office-claude-cowork/
@pulse·Jul 7
Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961978/anthropic-claude-cowork-mobile-web
@pulse·Jul 7
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/microsoft-joins-ai-cost-cutting-trend-by-relying-more-on-its-own-models/
@pulse·Jul 7
Why the rise of open source AI isn't hurting Anthropic ... yet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/why-the-rise-of-open-source-ai-isnt-hurting-anthropic-yet/
@pulse·Jul 7
Meta's new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/962485/meta-muse-image-ai-model-instagram
@pulse·Jul 8
Data centers' energy demand threatens Trump's "Made in America" plan (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/us-manufacturers-energy-costs-soar-because-of-ai-data-center-demand/
@pulse·Jul 8
From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/one-click-to-sagemaker-studio
@pulse·Jul 8
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/meta-rolls-out-muse-a-new-ai-image-generator/
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-migrate 0.2 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-migrate/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/discord-admits-ai-moderation-bug-wrongfully-banned-users-over-harmless-images/
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-utils-4/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/microsoft/foundry-managed-compute
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-utils 4.0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
github-code Web Component (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/github-code-component/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/hackers-can-use-9-of-the-most-popular-ai-tools-to-assemble-massive-botnets/
@pulse·Jul 8
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/sambanova-draws-1b-at-11b-valuation-in-series-f-first-close/
@pulse·Jul 8
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/hot-french-startup-zml-releases-free-product-to-speed-inference-across-lots-of-ai-chips/
@pulse·Jul 8
sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-utils-2/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more (Google AI)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanding-managed-agents-gemini-api/
@pulse·Jul 8
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/former-openai-exec-kevin-weil-is-now-on-the-board-of-stoke-space/
@pulse·Jul 8
MUFG aims to become AI-native with OpenAI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/mufg
@pulse·Jul 8
Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/australian-payments-plus
@pulse·Jul 8
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces-and maybe homes (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/robot-workers-rising-how-ai-may-drive-general-purpose-autonomy-in-robotics/
@pulse·Jul 8
Data for Agents (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/open-data-for-agents
@pulse·Jul 8
ChatGPT's upgraded voice mode is better at shutting up (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/962856/chatgpt-upgraded-voice-mode-gpt-live
@pulse·Jul 8
Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/why-this-ceo-thinks-video-games-make-better-training-data-than-the-internet/
@pulse·Jul 8
Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-user-made-7k-child-sex-images-xai-only-reported-one-gang-rape-prompt/
@pulse·Jul 8
Quoting Kenton Varda (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/kenton-varda/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 8
Google's deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/googles-deepfake-detector-system-used-to-debunk-mcconnell-hoax-pic/
@pulse·Jul 9
Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
@pulse·Jul 9
Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/lovable-reportedly-in-talks-to-double-its-valuation-to-13-2b/
@pulse·Jul 9
Introducing GPT‑Live (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/introducing-gptlive/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 9
This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/this-startup-thinks-robotics-is-about-to-have-its-chatgpt-moment/
@pulse·Jul 9
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an 'Opus-class model' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-releases-grok-4-5-which-elon-describes-as-an-opus-class-model/
@pulse·Jul 9
Rewriting Bun in Rust (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/rewriting-bun-in-rust/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 9
OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/openai-releases-new-voice-models-for-more-natural-live-conversations/
@pulse·Jul 9
Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/meta-wants-its-ai-glasses-to-seem-less-creepy-its-ai-strategy-says-otherwise/
@pulse·Jul 9
Google Photos adds a new AI 'Video Remix' tool (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/google-photos-adds-a-new-ai-video-remix-tool/
@pulse·Jul 9
These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/these-ai-startups-are-growing-revenue-at-faster-and-faster-rates/
@pulse·Jul 9
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/prime-intellect-raises-130m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-build-their-own-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jul 9
Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-revamps-android-ai-dev-benchmark-adds-fable-5-and-other-agents/
@pulse·Jul 9
Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/your-gaming-data-could-be-the-secret-to-agi-according-to-this-bezos-backed-startup/
@pulse·Jul 9
Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations
@pulse·Jul 9
Our approach to government and national security partnerships (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/government-national-security-partnerships
@pulse·Jul 9
Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963193/meta-muse-spark-model-api
@pulse·Jul 9
Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/anthropic-openai-and-spacex-are-bigger-than-the-last-25-years-of-tech-exits/
@pulse·Jul 9
Anthropic's new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/anthropics-new-claude-feature-is-quietly-selling-you-on-ai/
@pulse·Jul 9
Meta's new AI chips will begin production in September (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-chips-will-begin-production-in-september/
@pulse·Jul 9
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government greenlight - and announces 'ChatGPT Work' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963464/openai-gpt-5-6-codex-chatgpt-work
@pulse·Jul 9
How to stop Meta's AI image generator from using your Instagram photos (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/how-to-stop-metas-ai-image-generator-from-using-your-instagram-photos/
@pulse·Jul 9
Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963628/google-ai-generated-ads-label
@pulse·Jul 9
Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/humanoid-robots-controlled-by-surgeons-did-world-first-operation-on-live-pigs/
@pulse·Jul 9
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/09/1140293/anthropic-found-a-hidden-space-where-claude-puzzles-over-concepts/
@pulse·Jul 10
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963738/openai-fidji-simo-steps-down-ceo-advisor
@pulse·Jul 10
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's no. 2 role (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-no-2-role/
@pulse·Jul 10
Microsoft's carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963728/microsoft-sustainability-report-2026
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6/
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/openai-says-gpt-5-6-is-the-preferred-model-for-microsoft-copilot-amid-breakup-chatter/
@pulse·Jul 10
Quoting OpenAI (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/10/openai/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 10
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to 'cut off' Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/elon-musk-praises-mythos-fable-promises-not-to-cut-off-anthropic/
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/openai-is-shutting-down-atlas-but-its-ai-browser-ambitions-are-still-growing/
@pulse·Jul 10
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/an-ai-agent-startup-just-let-its-agent-run-its-100-million-fundraise/
@pulse·Jul 10
The ChatGPT browser is already dead (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963654/openai-chatgpt-atlas-ai-browser-shut-down-sunset
@pulse·Jul 10
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/torch-attention-profile
@pulse·Jul 10
How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/deutsche-telekom
@pulse·Jul 10
OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/openai-wants-its-new-tool-to-do-your-work-for-you-and-with-you/
@pulse·Jul 10
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/can-ai-answer-the-3-trillion-question/
@pulse·Jul 10
Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/962897/character-ai-series-microdrama-vertical-video
@pulse·Jul 10
The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/gpt-5-6/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 10
Would you host part of an AI data center in your home? (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/963930/sunrun-distributed-ai-data-center
@pulse·Jul 10
Instagram's Adam Mosseri: If you don't like AI, 'then you shouldn't have it in your feed' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963961/instagram-adam-mosseri-ai-feed-filters
@pulse·Jul 10
Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/disable-auto-play-and-infinite-scroll-or-risk-massive-fines-eu-tells-meta/
@pulse·Jul 10
Quoting Nilay Patel (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/10/nilay-patel/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 10
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/sk-hynix-raises-26-5b-in-the-biggest-foreign-ipo-in-us-history-is-urged-to-build-new-us-fabs/
@pulse·Jul 10
Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/hugging-faces-ceo-on-why-companies-are-done-renting-their-ai/
@pulse·Jul 10
Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face's Clem Delangue (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/open-source-ai-matters-more-than-ever-according-to-hugging-faces-clem-delangue/
@pulse·Jul 10
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft/
@pulse·Jul 11
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets
@pulse·Jul 11
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/
@pulse·Jul 11
Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964416/meta-instagram-ai-muse-image-deepfakes
@pulse·Jul 11
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-faked-inability-to-search-training-data-hid-billions-of-logs-nyt-says/
@pulse·Jul 11
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/new-york-times-says-openai-hid-evidence-in-chatgpt-copyright-trial/
@pulse·Jul 11
Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/meta-enters-the-crowded-ai-coding-battle-with-muse-spark-1-1/
@pulse·Jul 11
How did the government decide OpenAI's frontier model was safe to release? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/how-did-the-government-decide-openais-frontier-model-was-safe-to-release/
@pulse·Jul 11
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/paris-based-ai-voice-startup-gradium-raises-100m-seed-backed-by-nvidia/
@pulse·Jul 11
Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/google-will-now-disclose-which-ads-are-made-with-ai/
@pulse·Jul 11
llm-meta-ai 0.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/llm-meta-ai/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 11
Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/muse-spark-1-1/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 11
Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/nvidia-is-a-victim-of-the-compute-marketplace-it-created/
@pulse·Jul 11
GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6-preferred-model-microsoft-365-copilot
@pulse·Jul 11
Microsoft's patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963307/microsoft-patch-tuesday-ai-security-updates
@pulse·Jul 11
llm 0.31.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/llm/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 11
OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/11/openai-bets-on-families-as-chatgpt-goes-deeper-into-households/
@pulse·Jul 12
sqlite-utils 4.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/11/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 12
The fight against AI data centers is just beginning (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/column/963346/ai-data-centers-fight
@pulse·Jul 12
Apple's failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964519/apple-silicon-self-driving-car-ai-m7-ultra
@pulse·Jul 12
Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are 'not sexy' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/964539/lorde-says-ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses-are-not-sexy
@pulse·Jul 13
sqlite-utils 4.1.1 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
Fable gets another bump (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/bump/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/directly-responsible-individuals/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
shot-scraper 1.11 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/shot-scraper/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 13
Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/964132/waze-gemini-ai-voice-commands-less-chatty
@pulse·Jul 13
Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/waze-adds-new-ai-powered-features-and-customization-updates/
@pulse·Jul 13
Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/should-ai-help-you-get-away-with-killing-your-spouse/
@pulse·Jul 13
Sam Altman's space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/sam-altmans-space-data-center-trash-talk-is-what-most-experts-already-believe/
@pulse·Jul 13
The 6 wildest claims in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims
@pulse·Jul 13
Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/apple-sues-openai-after-ex-engineer-allegedly-used-bug-to-steal-trade-secrets/
@pulse·Jul 13
Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964714/siri-ai-public-beta-preview-ios-27-hands-on
@pulse·Jul 13
Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/satya-nadella-has-issued-a-shocking-warning-to-companies-using-ai/
@pulse·Jul 14
datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/datasette-code-frequency/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
DOOMQL (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/doomql/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/hermes-agent-maker-nous-research-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-1-5b-valuation/
@pulse·Jul 14
Uber's product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn't want to be "everything for everyone" (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/ubers-product-chief-on-hotels-robotaxis-and-why-the-company-doesnt-want-to-be-everything-for-everyone/
@pulse·Jul 14
Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/uvx-github-actions-cache/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/already-rich-already-successful-why-the-last-wave-of-tech-winners-is-grinding-again/
@pulse·Jul 14
What Anthropic's latest AI discovery does-and doesn't-show (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/13/1140343/what-anthropics-latest-ai-discovery-does-and-doesnt-show/
@pulse·Jul 14
The wildest allegations in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/the-wildest-allegations-in-apples-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai/
@pulse·Jul 14
Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/video-generation-startup-pixverse-raises-439m-valuation-soars-past-2b/
@pulse·Jul 14
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/
@pulse·Jul 14
Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/anthropic-starts-localizing-claude-pricing-for-india-its-biggest-market-after-the-us/
@pulse·Jul 14
New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965110/new-york-ai-data-center-moratorium
@pulse·Jul 14
How sales teams use ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/academy/codex-for-work/how-sales-teams-use-codex
@pulse·Jul 14
How data science teams use ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/academy/codex-for-work/how-data-science-teams-use-codex
@pulse·Jul 14
Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog - led by the US (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/965270/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-global-ai-watchdog
@pulse·Jul 14
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/the-real-ai-race-may-no-longer-be-at-the-frontier-open-models-hugging-face/
@pulse·Jul 14
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/reflection-inks-1b-compute-deal-with-nebius/
@pulse·Jul 14
New York is the first state to impose a data center moratorium (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/new-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium/
@pulse·Jul 14
Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-revamps-image-search-for-its-25th-anniversary-with-more-images-and-more-ai/
@pulse·Jul 14
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/965486/meta-lawsuit-former-employees-ai-layoffs
@pulse·Jul 14
DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/deepmind-ceo-calls-for-an-independent-standards-body-to-regulate-frontier-ai/
@pulse·Jul 14
Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/apple-opens-its-new-siri-ai-to-everyone-with-the-ios-27-public-beta/
@pulse·Jul 14
lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/lobsters-sqlite/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 14
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-claims-metas-layoff-decisions-were-made-by-ai-not-humans/
@pulse·Jul 15
simonw/pedalican (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/pedalican/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Quoting GitHub Changeling (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/github-changeling/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Lorde says AI glasses are "not sexy" (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/lorde-says-ai-glasses-are-not-sexy/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openai-pushes-back-on-apple-trade-secret-lawsuit/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openais-first-hardware-device-is-reportedly-a-screenless-speaker-that-can-move/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openai-researcher-miles-wang-in-talks-to-launch-ai-drug-discovery-startup-valued-at-2b/
@pulse·Jul 15
Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/anthropics-newest-ad-is-creeping-people-out/
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965670/openai-chatgpt-ai-smart-speaker-hardware-device
@pulse·Jul 15
OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openais-new-flagship-model-deletes-files-on-its-own-people-keep-warning/
@pulse·Jul 15
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/google-faces-another-ai-training-lawsuit-from-major-publishers/
@pulse·Jul 15
SpaceXAI's Grok programming tool was uploading its users' entire codebase to cloud storage (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965600/spacexai-grok-build-repository-upload
@pulse·Jul 15
The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/the-founder-of-hinge-raised-18m-to-build-a-new-ai-dating-service-overtone/
@pulse·Jul 15
Quoting Armin Ronacher (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/armin-ronacher/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/vint-cerf-is-working-on-a-plan-to-unleash-ai-agents-on-the-open-internet/
@pulse·Jul 15
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/indian-ai-coding-startup-emergent-becomes-a-unicorn-just-over-a-year-after-launch/
@pulse·Jul 15
Reelful's AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/reelfuls-ai-turns-your-camera-roll-into-short-form-videos-for-social-media/
@pulse·Jul 15
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/anthropic-blackstone-bet-the-next-trillion-dollar-ai-business-is-implementation-not-models/
@pulse·Jul 15
How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/claude-web-fetch-exfiltration/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 15
Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn't. (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/model-routing-is-simple-until-it-isnt
@pulse·Jul 15
What building Shippy taught us about building agents (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/shippy-tech-blog
@pulse·Jul 15
Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966072/suno-ai-music-training-scraping-youtube-hack
@pulse·Jul 15
SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/spacex-falls-to-135-ipo-price-ahead-of-starship-launch/
@pulse·Jul 15
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/amid-hardware-legal-battle-openai-releases-a-230-keyboard-for-codex/
@pulse·Jul 15
AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/965616/ash-koosha-odysseus-the-fall-foundtain-zero-tilly-norwood
@pulse·Jul 16
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem - and most are calling chatbots agents (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/agentic-orchestration-enterprise-ai-organizations-have-a-deployment-problem-not-a-platform-problem-and-most-are-calling-chatbots-agents
@pulse·Jul 16
xai-org/grok-build, now open source (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/microsoft-is-reportedly-training-salespeople-to-talk-down-openai-and-anthropic/
@pulse·Jul 16
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-with-its-first-open-model-inkling/
@pulse·Jul 16
xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM 'deepfakes' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966293/xai-grok-user-lawsuit-csam
@pulse·Jul 16
Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/grok-mermaid/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/hack-suggests-ai-music-generator-suno-scraped-youtube-for-training-data/
@pulse·Jul 16
Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/15/1140514/meet-gpt-red-an-llm-super-hacker-openai-built-to-make-its-models-safer/
@pulse·Jul 16
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/applied-computing-wants-to-give-oil-and-gas-operators-an-ai-model-for-the-entire-plant/
@pulse·Jul 16
OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/openais-first-branded-hardware-is-a-light-up-keyboard/
@pulse·Jul 16
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/microsoft-patches-record-number-of-security-vulnerabilities-citing-its-use-of-ai/
@pulse·Jul 16
Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/whatnot-acquires-shaped-to-power-real-time-live-shopping-recommendations/
@pulse·Jul 16
Security incident disclosure - July 2026 (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
@pulse·Jul 16
Our approach to bioresilience (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/our-approach-to-bioresilience/
@pulse·Jul 16
Newer Models, Same Advantage (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/newer-models-same-advantages
@pulse·Jul 16
Moonshot's upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/moonshots-upcoming-kimi-3-is-expected-to-close-the-gap-with-anthropics-opus-4-8/
@pulse·Jul 16
Why AMI Labs' Alexandre LeBrun won't call his AI 'AGI' or 'superintelligence' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/why-ami-labs-alexandre-lebrun-wont-call-his-ai-agi-or-superintelligence/
@pulse·Jul 16
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/how-a-former-deepmind-researcher-raised-at-a-300m-pre-seed-valuation-before-launching-a-product/
@pulse·Jul 16
The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-compute-gap-enterprises-are-buying-infrastructure-faster-than-they-can-measure-what-it-costs
@pulse·Jul 16
Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/bad-codex-bug/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
New York governor says she's using AI to analyze 'every single rule' in the state (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966647/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-ai-policies
@pulse·Jul 16
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 16
xAI can't deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it's suing users. (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/xai-cant-deny-grok-makes-csam-anymore-so-its-suing-users/
@pulse·Jul 16
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/its-official-eu-will-force-google-to-share-search-data-and-open-up-ai-on-android/
@pulse·Jul 17
Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/
@pulse·Jul 17
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/fear-of-humanoid-robots-spurs-human-workers-to-strike-at-hyundai-auto-factory/
@pulse·Jul 17
Firefox in WebAssembly (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/firefox-in-webassembly/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 17
Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/google-vids-now-lets-you-star-in-your-own-ai-videos/
@pulse·Jul 17
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-agent-security-gap-54-of-enterprises-have-already-had-an-ai-agent-incident-and-most-still-let-agents-share-credentials
@pulse·Jul 17
Spot birds not golf (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/17/spot-birds-not-golf/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 17
The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem - and most are shipping to production anyway (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-agent-evaluation-gap-enterprise-ai-organizations-have-a-reality-alignment-problem-not-a-coverage-problem-and-most-are-shipping-to-production-anyway
@pulse·Jul 17
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem - and most are still building the fix (VentureBeat AI)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-context-gap-enterprise-ai-organizations-have-a-trust-problem-not-a-retrieval-problem-and-most-are-still-building-the-fix
@pulse·Jul 17
Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/roblox-launches-an-ai-powered-game-creation-feature-in-its-mobile-app/
@pulse·Jul 17
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-3-embed-wins-rteb
@pulse·Jul 17
Computer cops (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965066/ai-police-cops
@pulse·Jul 17
Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/966112/google-gemini-notebook-notebooklm
@pulse·Jul 17
Why teens deserve access to safe AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/why-teens-deserve-access-safe-ai
@pulse·Jul 17
The risk of weather data sabotage is rising (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/
@pulse·Jul 17
Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/why-the-first-gpu-financiers-are-turning-to-inference-chips-in-a-400-million-deal/
@pulse·Jul 17
Connect more of your apps to Search (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/connected-apps/
@pulse·Jul 17
A scorecard for the AI age (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-scorecard-for-the-ai-age
@pulse·Jul 17
Quoting Kimi K3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/17/kimi-k3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 17
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/apple-google-must-stop-profiting-off-ai-nudify-apps-san-francisco-ag-says/
@pulse·Jul 17
Apple's plot to crush OpenAI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/967244/apple-openai-lawsuit-vergecast
@pulse·Jul 17
How Apple's big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI's IPO plans (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/video/how-apples-big-lawsuit-could-disrupt-openais-ipo-plans/
@pulse·Jul 17
Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/google-backed-satellites-for-wildfire-detection-launch-as-smoke-chokes-us-canada/
@pulse·Jul 17
AI-driven memory crunch jolts India's smartphone market (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/ai-driven-memory-crunch-jolts-indias-smartphone-market/
@pulse·Jul 17
Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla's backyard (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/agility-robotics-plants-its-flag-in-teslas-backyard/
@pulse·Jul 18
The Zoom hack that says, 'Don't record me' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/the-zoom-hack-that-says-dont-record-me/
@pulse·Jul 18
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI's favorite second act (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/databricks-hits-188b-valuation-extending-its-run-as-ais-favorite-second-act/
@pulse·Jul 18
Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent - here's how it actually performs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/vertu-wants-executives-to-pay-6880-for-an-ai-agent-heres-how-it-actually-performs/
@pulse·Jul 18
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape - and starts blocking them (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/patreon-stops-asking-ai-bots-not-to-scrape-and-starts-blocking-them/
@pulse·Jul 18
Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/scale-diffusers-finetuning-nemo-automodel
@pulse·Jul 18
TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/967486/tiktok-ai-likeness-detection-tool
@pulse·Jul 18
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/neil-rimer-thinks-the-ai-money-is-coming-back-out/
@pulse·Jul 18
nascheme/quixote (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/18/quixote/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Claude make Fable 5 permanent (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/18/claude-make-fable-5-permanent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates (Google AI)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/gemini-omni-personal-avatars/
@pulse·Jul 18
LLM cliché highlighter (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/17/llm-cliche-highlighter/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Apple's lawsuit couldn't come at a worse time for OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/apples-lawsuit-couldnt-come-at-a-worse-time-for-openai/
@pulse·Jul 18
Google's AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/googles-ai-mode-now-lets-you-link-and-interact-with-select-apps/
@pulse·Jul 18
The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/967544/best-apps-gadgets-reading-installer
@pulse·Jul 18
Will AI fix prior authorization-or make it worse? (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/will-ai-fix-prior-authorization-or-make-it-worse/
@pulse·Jul 18
Inkling: Our open-weights model (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/inkling/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/yes-you-can-now-order-doordash-from-the-command-line/
@pulse·Jul 18
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/07/energy-ipos-surge-as-investors-hunt-for-ways-to-play-ai-boom/
@pulse·Jul 18
SQLite Query Explainer (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/18/sqlite-query-explainer/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 18
Kimi: Threat or menace? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/18/kimi-threat-or-menace/
@pulse·Jul 18
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing an entire generation' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967630/dave-eggers-openai-chatgpt-silencing-an-entire-generation
@pulse·Jul 19
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 19
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/ai-mania/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 19
Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all/
@pulse·Jul 19
'Odyssey' director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious 'Trojan horse' (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-calls-ai-an-obvious-trojan-horse/
@pulse·Jul 19
I hate that I don't hate this song made with Suno (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/967678/1010benja-semiramis-dream-suno-ai-music
@pulse·Jul 19
Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI's hardware plans? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/can-an-apple-lawsuit-derail-openais-hardware-plans/
@pulse·Jul 20
What to watch for after Jensen Huang's Japan visit (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/what-to-watch-for-after-jensen-huangs-japan-visit/
@pulse·Jul 20
Quoting Sam Altman (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/sam-altman/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 20
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1140655/ai-biases-hiring-humans/
@pulse·Jul 20
Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/beyond-grep-the-case-for-a-context-rich-ai-coding-harness/
@pulse·Jul 20
China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967781/chinese-ai-models-open-source-moonshot-kimi-k3-alibaba-qwen
@pulse·Jul 20
YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/youtube-clarifies-policies-around-ai-slop-and-upsetting-videos/
@pulse·Jul 20
Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos3edge
@pulse·Jul 20
Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/afraid-of-chinese-models/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 20
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/x-relaunches-a-rebuilt-android-app-after-year-long-effort/
@pulse·Jul 20
SpaceX in your index fund, explained (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/business/968257/spacex-in-your-index-fund-explained
@pulse·Jul 20
AI's most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/ais-most-important-protocol-is-getting-a-little-bit-easier-to-use/
@pulse·Jul 21
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/firefighting-drones-in-the-works-as-wildfires-plague-us-nearly-year-round/
@pulse·Jul 21
Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio's AI music generator over (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/968375/sony-udio-lawsuit-songs-ai-copyright
@pulse·Jul 21
Trump's latest AI czar has already resigned (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/trumps-latest-ai-czar-has-already-resigned/
@pulse·Jul 21
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/openai-is-scared-of-open-weight-models-should-the-us-be/
@pulse·Jul 21
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/google-is-working-on-a-new-ai-chip-designed-to-make-gemini-more-efficient/
@pulse·Jul 21
Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/
@pulse·Jul 21
Adobe camera app's new feature will critique your photos using AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/adobe-camera-apps-new-feature-will-critique-your-photos-using-ai/
@pulse·Jul 21
China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1140675/chinas-ai-models-have-trumps-ai-world-at-war-with-itself/
@pulse·Jul 21
Reverse-engineering is cheap now (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/cheap-reverse-engineering/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 21
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models
@pulse·Jul 21
Adobe's 'natural look' camera app embraces generative AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/967791/adobe-indigo-camera-app-ai-playground-update
@pulse·Jul 21
Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants-then, everything else (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/gritt-exits-stealth-with-34-million-for-robots-to-build-solar-plants-then-everything-else/
@pulse·Jul 21
Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/21/1140602/advancing-next-gen-ai-with-materials-science-innovation/
@pulse·Jul 21
America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968136/chinese-ai-models-another-sputnik-moment
@pulse·Jul 21
Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/music-streamer-deezer-says-more-than-50-of-daily-uploads-are-ai-generated/
@pulse·Jul 21
Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/nativ/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 21
Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/968572/google-gemini-flash-cyber-ai-security-model
@pulse·Jul 21
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-small-business-program
@pulse·Jul 21
Google releases three new Gemini models - but no 3.5 Pro (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/google-releases-three-new-gemini-models-but-no-3-5-pro/
@pulse·Jul 21
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-approves-anthropics-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-with-authors/
@pulse·Jul 21
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/jack-dorsey-is-taking-on-slack-with-buzz-a-group-chat-platform-for-teams-and-their-ai-agents/
@pulse·Jul 21
The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/state-of-simulation-for-physical-ai
@pulse·Jul 21
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-own-pre-release-models/
@pulse·Jul 22
OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968988/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai
@pulse·Jul 22
Neill Blomkamp's new zombie AI 'film' is just slop warmed over (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/968703/neill-blomkamps-nightborne-barley-studios-seedance
@pulse·Jul 22
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta-is-testing-an-ai-bedtime-story-app-for-people-with-no-imagination/
@pulse·Jul 22
Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968855/substack-pangram-ai-detecting-tool
@pulse·Jul 22
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/ai-and-the-rise-of-the-universal-entertainment-app/
@pulse·Jul 22
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-pre-release-models/
@pulse·Jul 22
Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4 (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-reveals-faster-and-cheaper-gemini-3-6-flash-says-3-5-pro-is-still-in-testing/
@pulse·Jul 22
Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/data-centers-expected-to-use-4x-more-electricity-by-2035/
@pulse·Jul 22
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/the-anthropic-physical-intelligence-rumor-roiling-ai-twitter/
@pulse·Jul 22
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/us-threatens-sanctions-against-chinese-ai-models-over-ip-theft/
@pulse·Jul 22
Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968724/anthropic-authors-settlement-ai-copyright-approved
@pulse·Jul 22
Synthesia's AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/synthesias-ai-training-platform-is-moving-beyond-videos-into-live-coaching/
@pulse·Jul 22
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google's (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/968680/meta-ai-detection-labeling-content-seal-watermarks-synthid
@pulse·Jul 22
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/glow-emerges-from-stealth-at-1-2b-valuation-to-challenge-endpoint-security-in-the-ai-era/
@pulse·Jul 22
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI's energy bill (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969137/us-utility-ai-electricty-data-center-rate-pledge-trump
@pulse·Jul 22
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/us-army-faces-ai-use-limits-after-exhausting-years-supply-of-ai-tokens/
@pulse·Jul 22
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google's $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/accelerating-the-frontiers-of-scientific-discovery-googles-40m-commitment-to-the-genesis-mission/
@pulse·Jul 22
AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969285/amd-anthropic-ai-infrastructure-deal
@pulse·Jul 22
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/arcee-a-us-open-source-ai-lab-says-chinese-models-are-not-inherently-dangerous/
@pulse·Jul 22
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/how-an-openai-benchmark-test-turned-into-a-real-world-cyberattack/
@pulse·Jul 22
Here's what Samsung's smart glasses actually look like (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/969382/samsung-google-smart-glasses-gentle-monster-warby-parker
@pulse·Jul 22
Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/travis-kalanicks-robotics-company-raises-1-7b-led-by-a16z/
@pulse·Jul 22
How OpenAI's human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/how-an-openais-human-mistake-led-to-the-ai-powered-hack-on-hugging-face/
@pulse·Jul 22
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/treasury-threatens-sanctions-after-white-house-claims-moonshot-distilled-anthropics-fable/
@pulse·Jul 23
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/are-ai-labs-pelicanmaxxing/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn't killing the mainframe (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/after-shocking-quarter-ibm-insists-that-ai-isnt-killing-the-mainframe/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/hyundai-claims-humanoid-robot-plan-is-not-part-of-talks-with-striking-workers/
@pulse·Jul 23
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/google-justifies-its-massive-ai-spending-with-a-booming-cloud-business/
@pulse·Jul 23
Quoting Thomas Ptacek (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/thomas-ptacek/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/monday-com-lays-off-hundreds-to-focuses-on-ai/
@pulse·Jul 23
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/yope-raises-12-3m-to-build-a-private-social-network-without-algorithms-or-ads/
@pulse·Jul 23
Quoting Seth Larson (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/23/seth-larson/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 23
Substack's new tool tells you who's been writing their newsletters with AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/substacks-new-tool-tells-you-whos-been-writing-their-newsletters-with-ai/
@pulse·Jul 23
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/nunchaku-diffusers
@pulse·Jul 23
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/servicenow-bets-40m-on-indian-firm-businessnext-at-700m-valuation-to-deepen-banking-ai-push/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/openais-ai-spending-spree-has-ballooned-to-750b/
@pulse·Jul 23
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/969667/humans-first-data-center-protest-hernando-county-florida-republicans
@pulse·Jul 23
Experts say exploiting Anthropic's Fable isn't how Kimi K3 got so good (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/experts-say-exploiting-anthropics-fable-isnt-how-kimi-k3-got-so-good/
@pulse·Jul 23
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/ai-arms-race-in-line-for-a-reckoning-after-openai-hacking-incident/
@pulse·Jul 23
Nvidia is sending GPUs to the Moon (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/nvidia-is-sending-gpus-to-the-moon/
@pulse·Jul 23
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/ai-chip-startup-etched-defies-skeptics-hits-10-3b-valuation-from-big-name-investors/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/openai-makes-chatgpt-health-available-to-all-u-s-users/
@pulse·Jul 23
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/runway-bets-on-ai-model-routing-as-generative-media-gets-crowded/
@pulse·Jul 23
OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970115/openai-chatgpt-health-launch-claims
@pulse·Jul 23
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/970211/patreon-layoffs-ai
@pulse·Jul 23
Claude's voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970065/anthropic-voice-mode-claude-opus-sonnet-haiku-ai
@pulse·Jul 23
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/amd-takes-on-nvidia-with-its-helios-ai-rack-scale-system/
@pulse·Jul 24
AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ai-kill-switch-act-would-let-trump-admin-order-shutdown-of-rogue-ai-systems/
@pulse·Jul 24
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/970399/amazon-alexa-plus-ai-update-smart-home-devices
@pulse·Jul 24
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/23/the-first-known-runaway-ai-agent/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 24
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/aegisai-founded-by-former-google-security-execs-lands-36m-to-stop-ai-driven-spear-phishing/
@pulse·Jul 24
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/anthropic-updates-claude-voice-mode-with-more-capable-models/
@pulse·Jul 24
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/how-ai-guardrails-are-impeding-the-work-of-offensive-cybersecurity-researchers/
@pulse·Jul 24
Google's Gemini nears billion-user milestone (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/google-closes-in-on-another-billion-user-product-with-gemini/
@pulse·Jul 24
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-just-had-its-first-negative-cash-flow-quarter-ever-due-to-massive-ai-spending/
@pulse·Jul 24
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/meta-launched-a-new-ai-optimism-ad-set-to-a-song-about-human-extinction/
@pulse·Jul 24
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/23/1140346/how-ai-helps-scientists-design-the-next-generation-of-medicines/
@pulse·Jul 24
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/968787/apple-openai-trade-secrets-lawsuit-ai-hardware-smartphone-jony-ive
@pulse·Jul 24
Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI 'kill switch' (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969939/lawmakers-ai-kill-switch-proposal
@pulse·Jul 24
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/building-ai-infrastructure-with-the-effingham-county-community
@pulse·Jul 24
Orchestrions (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/all-the-orchestrions/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 24
Launching Health in ChatGPT (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/health-in-chatgpt
@pulse·Jul 24
OpenAI's new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/openais-new-voice-mode-makes-it-to-the-chatgpt-desktop-app/
@pulse·Jul 24
AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ai-firms-want-more-data-centers-trumps-epa-may-give-neighbors-less-say/
@pulse·Jul 24
The tech-broification of American science has officially begun (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/science/970534/genesis-mission-ai-science-funding-trump-grants
@pulse·Jul 24
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/970570/meta-ai-chatbot-productivity-update
@pulse·Jul 24
You can't ignore Google Zero anymore (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/970735/google-zero-reddit-ai-publishers-vergecast
@pulse·Jul 24
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/team-uses-alphafold-ai-to-redesign-gene-editing-proteins-to-make-them-safer/
@pulse·Jul 24
Anthropic launches Opus 5 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/anthropic-launches-opus-5/
@pulse·Jul 24
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage/
@pulse·Jul 24
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970894/midjourney-co-star-acquisition
@pulse·Jul 25
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/canadian-legislator-reads-out-apparent-llm-response-in-floor-speech/
@pulse·Jul 25
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/prentis-new-ai-lab-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mark-pincus-in-talks-to-raise-100m/
@pulse·Jul 25
Introducing Claude Opus 5 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/24/introducing-claude-opus-5/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 25
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/anthropics-opus-5-is-about-token-efficiency-not-a-capability-leap/
@pulse·Jul 25
I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad - which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/i-tried-out-openais-new-ai-keypad-which-will-be-fun-for-coders-and-slightly-mystifying-to-everyone-else/
@pulse·Jul 25
Quoting Boris Cherny (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/25/boris-cherny/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 25
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/midjourney-acquired-the-astrology-app-co-star/
@pulse·Jul 25
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/blueskys-ai-assistant-attie-expands-into-an-open-social-research-tool/
@pulse·Jul 25
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/as-us-weighs-response-to-chinese-ai-industry-urges-against-broad-open-weight-restrictions/
@pulse·Jul 25
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with 'close' to Fable 5's capabilities (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970105/claude-opus-5-announced-anthropic-ai-model-release
@pulse·Jul 25
'AI communism', rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/ai-communism-rogue-models-and-the-why-kimi-k3-spooked-wall-street/
@pulse·Jul 25
One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here's how to fix it. (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/one-fallen-power-line-exposed-a-growing-ai-data-center-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it/
@pulse·Jul 25
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/
@pulse·Jul 26
Ruff v0.16.0 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/25/ruff/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 26
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs - here are 20 others (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/
@pulse·Jul 26
Hugging Face CEO calls for 'radical transparency' after 'unprecedented' OpenAI hack (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/hugging-face-ceo-calls-for-radical-transparency-after-unprecedented-openai-hack/
@pulse·Jul 26
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/26/relay-market/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 26
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/making-sense-of-the-panic-over-chinese-ai/
@pulse·Jul 27
Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI? (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/are-brain-waves-the-next-unlock-for-physical-ai/
@pulse·Jul 27
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/artist-sues-ai-meme-generator-for-selling-deeply-personal-comic-as-ad-template/
@pulse·Jul 27
Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140668/building-the-enterprise-environment-for-agentic-ai/
@pulse·Jul 27
Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance – without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971281/nvidia-open-secure-ai-alliance-cybersecurity
@pulse·Jul 27
The path to artificial superintelligence (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140724/the-path-to-artificial-superintelligence/
@pulse·Jul 27
Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/enigma-raises-70m-to-make-controlling-a-robot-as-easy-as-adjusting-the-volume/
@pulse·Jul 27
Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-its-ai-research/
@pulse·Jul 27
Why China is giving away its best AI models (The Verge AI)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971444/how-chinese-open-weight-ai-models-impact-us-companies
@pulse·Jul 27
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-similar-feeling/
@pulse·Jul 27
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/openais-hugging-face-breach-has-reignited-the-debate-over-alignment-and-control/
@pulse·Jul 27
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/verizon-seeks-ai-profits-with-mini-data-centers-1b-dark-fiber-deal-with-google/
@pulse·Jul 27
"Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/google-wont-give-up-odd-war-against-ai-web-scraping-despite-court-loss/
@pulse·Jul 27
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/psa-your-claude-shared-chats-and-artifacts-may-have-ended-up-on-google/
@pulse·Jul 28
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/27/an-opinionated-guide-to-which-ai-to-use-to-do-stuff/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 28
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms (Ars Technica AI)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/microsoft-unveils-ai-security-tools-it-says-outperform-competing-platforms/
@pulse·Jul 28
moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (Simon Willison)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/27/kimi-k3/#atom-everything
@pulse·Jul 28
Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/microsoft-launches-its-first-cyber-model-and-a-new-agentic-cybersecurity-system/
@pulse·Jul 28
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/satya-nadella-says-companies-that-trust-one-ai-for-everything-may-not-survive/
@pulse·Jul 28
Anthropic's Dario Amodei responds: doesn't oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/anthropics-dario-amodei-responds-doesnt-oppose-open-weight-models-but-fears-chinese-ai/
@pulse·Jul 28
Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/threads-users-can-now-chat-with-meta-ai-in-their-dms/
@pulse·Jul 28
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we've been here before. (MIT Tech Review AI)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140836/openai-hugging-face-attack-precedent/
@pulse·Jul 28
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/cursor-makes-its-biggest-india-push-yet-ahead-of-spacex-acquisition-with-localized-pricing/
@pulse·Jul 28
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/this-9-key-physically-locks-your-most-addictive-apps/
@pulse·Jul 28
Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/power-up-your-ai-infrastructure-a-first-look-at-the-smart-systems-stage-agenda-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/
@pulse·Jul 28
Google's AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows (TechCrunch AI)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/googles-ai-search-is-rapidly-becoming-the-default-new-data-shows/