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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
TechCrunch AI published: Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.
Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
TechCrunch AI published: Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
TechCrunch AI published: The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI
TechCrunch AI published: Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
MIT Technology Review published: This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they…
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
TechCrunch AI published: OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s No. 2 role
TechCrunch AI published: OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
TechCrunch AI published: OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
TechCrunch AI published: Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
TechCrunch AI published: OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
TechCrunch AI published: Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
TechCrunch AI published: The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
MIT Technology Review published: The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or…
Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
TechCrunch AI published: Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide.
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
TechCrunch AI published: News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI
TechCrunch AI published: While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required election ads to disclose.
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
TechCrunch AI published: The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
TechCrunch AI published: "Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos
TechCrunch AI published: Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an AI-generated creation.
Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
TechCrunch AI published: The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.