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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom

Micro1, a four-year-old AI data startup, has expanded its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, putting its net annual run rate between $150 million and $200 million after retaining roughly 60%

TechCrunchAug 21
Industry Aug 20

OpenAI Is Gaining on Anthropic With Business Users, New Data Indicates

Ramp, a corporate credit card and expense management company, has released data showing OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic among U.S. businesses

TechCrunch
Tools Aug 20

Google Discover adding AI chatbot to customize your feed

Google will soon allow users to customize their Discover feed by describing what they want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Googl

The Verge
Research Aug 20

Study: Over one-third of post-ChatGPT web pages show AI authorship signs

Pew Research analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages from the past five years using Common Crawl and Open Pangram's detect

TechCrunch
Models Aug 20

Skala-1.1 improves DFT accuracy, integrates with major chemistry software

Microsoft Research has released Skala-1.1, an updated density functional theory (DFT) model that delivers substantially improved performance

Microsoft Research
Industry Aug 20

It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now

OpenAI has experienced significant executive turnover over the past year, with departures including Bill Peebles (former head of Sora), Kevi

The Verge
Industry Aug 20

Mathematicians face existential crisis as AI transforms the field

The Verge's London-based AI reporter Robert Hart discusses the existential crisis unfolding in mathematics after OpenAI published solutions

The Verge
Research Aug 20

Encrypted prompt injection tricks Grok into exfiltrating user data

Security researcher Rony Utevsky from Adversa has discovered a data theft attack against Grok that exploits encrypted malicious instructions

Ars Technica
Tools Aug 20

Slack launches Slack Code channels for collaborative vibe-coding with AI agents

Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents directly within the platform. The feature, called

The Verge
Startups Aug 19

Meet Silicon Data, the startup helping Wall Street price AI compute

Silicon Data has closed a $30 million Series A funding round to help Wall Street put a price on AI compute. The startup aims to become the r

TechCrunch
Industry Aug 19

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

OpenAI has announced it is slowing the pace of some AI development while tightening security and safeguards. The company implemented a two-w

The Verge
Industry Aug 19

VentureBeat appoints Rob Strechay as first Lead Analyst to deepen enterprise AI research coverage

VentureBeat has appointed Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst and founding analyst of VentureBeat Research, marking a strategic push towa

VentureBeat
Industry Aug 19

Nvidia's push to make compute an investable asset class draws scrutiny

Nvidia is partnering with major financial firms including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to create $500 b

The Verge
Industry Aug 17

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

According to 404 Media, Amazon is cutting off the spines of rare books and scanning them for AI training data. Reporters placed a tracking d

TechCrunch 2 sources
Startups Aug 18

Cursor launches Origin code-hosting platform as GitHub suffers outages

Cursor, the AI startup now officially part of SpaceX, has launched Origin—a new code-hosting platform designed to handle collaborative codin

TechCrunch
Industry Aug 18

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Robin Williams' children Zelda, Zak, and Cody are taking over their father's Instagram account to create a "safe, trusted place" with authen

The Verge
Tools Aug 18

Firefox Smart Window adds real-time web search and natural language browsing history features

Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode now pulls from current web information and displays source links in chat responses through a partner

The Verge
Industry Aug 18

The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people use their products, but researchers say they only release sel

MIT Tech Review
Tools Aug 18

OpenAI launches dedicated ChatGPT mode for teens with safety features

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers that combines existing youth safeguards with new safety features under one roof

The Verge
Industry Aug 17

Google Partners with Five Football Clubs to Bring Fans Closer with Gemini and Pixel

Google has launched long-term partnerships with five of the world's most iconic football clubs—Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München,

Google AI Blog
Industry Aug 16

Anthropic Fixes Claude Outage After Login Failures Hit Five Services

Anthropic experienced a service disruption on August 16 affecting five products: claude.ai, Claude Console, the Claude API, Claude Code, and

Unite.AI
Industry Aug 16

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The team was responsible for assessing wh

The Verge
Startups Aug 16

Stripe Reportedly Acquiring AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter for Over $7B

According to Bloomberg, Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup that helps customers select different AI models based on their

TechCrunch
Industry Aug 16

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed why not everyone is buying Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision of an AI-powered future where "everyone w

TechCrunch
Tools Aug 16

ChatGPT's Computer History tracks your actions without screenshots

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work,

The Verge
Regulation Aug 15

Woman joins lawsuit alleging stepfather used Grok to create explicit images from childhood photo

A woman has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk's xAI over the role the company's chatbot Grok allegedly p

TechCrunch
Tools Aug 15

Have a laugh at AI's expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

A new website called "Your AI Slop Bores Me" offers a playful twist on AI interaction by having humans roleplay as AI chatbots. The site fea

The Verge
Tools Aug 14

Google now lets you disable Gemini's visible watermarks

Google is rolling out a new "Media watermark" toggle setting in Gemini and its AI video generator Flow, allowing users to remove the visible

The Verge
Tools Aug 14

Google to let users remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, songs

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated content, including images, videos, and songs. The company specifi

TechCrunch
Models Aug 14

Apple trains custom AI model for China with Alibaba partnership

Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership a

The Verge
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