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You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies

The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.

Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, sources say.

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.

OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move. Weird enough for you?

Anthropic's latest advert is stirring up high emotions — which is undoubtedly what it was designed to do.

Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.

They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.

"homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."

What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.

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 ag...

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.

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.