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TechCrunch Research & Industry
12d ago

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

TechCrunch Research & Industry
12d ago

“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a…

TechCrunch Research & Industry
13d ago

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

Hacker News Model Releases
13d ago

Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?

Nowadays, almost everyone codes with AI, right? I am a freelancer, and the entire market is now setting deadlines based on AI-assisted coding speeds. If you don't use AI, you…

TechCrunch Model Releases
13d ago

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

TechCrunch Research & Industry
13d ago

Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.

Hacker News Research & Industry
14d ago

Show HN: OpenWand – A mission to remove chat interface from working with AI

Hi everyone, I'm working on OpenWand, an "LLM chat interface" that is optimized for AI co-work. Its function is to truly integrate AI into your workflow, so no more switching…

Hacker News Research & Industry
14d ago

Ask HN: AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs

Hi I am really lost here, if you are deploying AI agents in production, how are you handling auditability? also what would make you trust an external witness protocol? fo…

Hacker News Model Releases
14d ago

Tell HN: Man, AI is killing my brain

I was among the last to resist, but then I was given a subtle hint that if I won't "improve my productivity and be on par with my colleagues" my…

TechCrunch Funding & Business
14d ago

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”

TechCrunch Tools & Products
14d ago

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

Hacker News Model Releases
14d ago

Show HN: ThunderPhone v2 – a new architecture for voice AI

Hi folks, Alex here from ThunderPhone. Today we're launching v2. Voice AI has been a hot topic for the past year or two, both for automating phone calls and for…

DeepMind Funding & Business
14d ago

Piloting the world’s first double-blind AI evaluations

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

TechCrunch Funding & Business
14d ago

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump…

Hacker News Model Releases
15d ago

Show HN: AI harness that lets Codex and Claude intercommunicate to each other

Hello Everyone, I have been working on Rysh (Apache 2.0 licence), a new AI harnessing tool that lets you have the followings 1. Build fleet of agents that communicates to…

TechCrunch Model Releases
15d ago

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

TechCrunch Model Releases
15d ago

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

Hacker News Tools & Products
15d ago

Show HN: AI scientist builds an open-source Codex Micro from scratch for $40

A few weeks ago, we open-sourced our design for a cost-effective but full featured alternative to OpenAI x Work Louder's sold out Codex Micro macropad. And now, we're pleased to…

DeepMind Model Releases
15d ago

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

TechCrunch Tools & Products
15d ago

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

TechCrunch Model Releases
15d ago

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

TechCrunch Model Releases
15d ago

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
15d ago

Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
15d ago

QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.