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Industry

Open Source AI Matters More Than Ever, Says Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open source AI is booming, with the company growing into something like a GitHub for AI where builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue o

TechCrunchJul 10
Research Jul 10

The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

Anthropic researchers have developed a tool called the Jacobian lens (J-lens) to examine what's happening inside large language models. Usin

MIT Tech Review
Industry Jul 10

How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI

Deutsche Telekom is undergoing a transformation to become an AI-native telecommunications company. The carrier is implementing OpenAI techno

OpenAI Blog
Tools Jul 10

Getting started with ChatGPT

This guide provides an introduction to using ChatGPT, helping users begin their first conversation with the AI. It covers simple techniques

OpenAI Blog
Research Jul 9

Anthropic uncovers hidden J-space in Claude that reveals what it will say next

Anthropic researchers have developed a tool called the Jacobian lens (J-lens) that uncovered a hidden area inside Claude Opus 4.6, which the

MIT Tech Review
Models Jul 9

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

6 as offering improved intelligence efficiency per token consumed. It claims stronger performance relative to cost compared to previous vers

OpenAI Blog
Tools Jul 9

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

ChatGPT Work is a new agent tool designed to assist with ambitious projects. It can take action across a user's apps and files to complete t

OpenAI Blog
Tools Jul 8

Google's deepfake detector system debunks McConnell hoax image

Snopes debunked an AI-generated image that circulated online earlier this week, appearing to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered i

TechCrunch
Tools Jul 8

EmTech AI 2026: The Rise of the AI Platform

Anthropic's Code with Claude offers a preview of coding's future as AI tools become more capable. The tool allows developers to delegate cod

MIT Tech Review
Startups Jul 8

Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil joins Stoke Space board

Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has joined Stoke Space's board as a director, the company confirmed. Weil, along with his wife Elizabeth

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 8

Pickup Artist 'Mystery' Claims AI Chatbot Is His Girlfriend

Erik von Markovik, the pickup artist and life coach better known as Mystery, has been sharing videos on Instagram of a chatbot he calls Miss

WIRED
Tools Jul 7

Hugging Face Models Deployable on Foundry Managed Compute

Microsoft announced at Build 2026 that Hugging Face models are now available on Foundry Managed Compute — a curated catalog of open-weight m

Hugging Face
Industry Jul 7

The foundational elements of AI architecture IT leaders need to scale

As AI continues to evolve, IT leaders face uncertainty about which investments will hold value even six months into the future. Returning to

MIT Tech Review
Tools Jul 7

SkyPilot enables zero-egress AI workloads with Hugging Face storage across any cloud

SkyPilot and Hugging Face have integrated to let users store models and datasets on Hugging Face Hub while running compute workloads on any

Hugging Face
Industry Jul 6

The so-called 'first' AI-run ransomware attack still required human involvement

Sysdig researcher Michael Clark clarified that a so-called AI-driven ransomware operation, while technically executed by an AI agent, still

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 6

US investors to gain access to SK Hynix as memory maker rides AI boom

SK Hynix is preparing to offer American depositary receipts (ADRs) to U.S. investors, with each ADR representing a tenth of a common share.

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 6

If you use Google, it's training AI on your data — here's how to opt out

Google updated the privacy settings for its Search services in June, quietly opting users into having their uploaded photos, videos, and aud

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 6

The Download: South Korea's hottest bachelors and advances in eye transplants

Chip workers at South Korea's SK Hynix have become the country's most sought-after bachelors and bachelorettes thanks to AI chip boom profit

MIT Tech Review
Industry Jul 5

Some of the nation's wealthy are letting AI teach their kids

Wealthy American families are paying tens of thousands of dollars to replace traditional schooling with AI-based education, effectively turn

The Verge
Industry Jul 5

Google commercial imagines founding fathers embracing AI, draws fierce criticism

A new Google Workspace commercial opens with the line "Group project, but make it 1776," depicting the founding fathers using Google's colla

The Verge
Tools Jul 4

Google ad imagines Declaration of Independence drafted with AI assistance

Google has released a new commercial with the tagline "Group project, but make it 1776," depicting an unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft of t

TechCrunch
Regulation Jul 4

Midjourney seeks full disclosure of Hollywood studios' AI usage details

Disney and Universal sued Midjourney last year for alleged copyright infringement, claiming its image-generation models could create images

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 4

Alibaba reportedly prohibits employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports.

TechCrunch
Startups Jul 4

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the French OpenAI competitor

French AI company Mistral, based in Paris and named after a wind, is often misunderstood despite developing large language models (LLMs). It

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 4

The fanfiction community is at war with AI and itself

Fanfiction communities are attempting to root out writers using generative AI to produce fanworks, but the detection methods being implement

The Verge
Industry Jul 3

The only AI glossary you'll need this year

TechCrunch has published a regularly updated glossary of AI terms written in plain English, aimed at readers who build with, invest in, or f

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 3

Anthropic plans to develop its own drugs

At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science," Anthropic announced Claude Science, described as an "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fr

The Verge
Industry Jul 2

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he hoped

At an internal town hall on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not "accelerated in the

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 2

Jersey Mike's IPO shows how overdone AI hype has become

Jersey Mike's, a submarine sandwich company, mentioned the terms "artificial intelligence" and "AI" 22 times in its S-1 filing, despite sell

TechCrunch
Industry Jul 2

Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?

Following SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor, a key open question is whether the AI coding assistant can continue serving as a multi-model platf

WIRED
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