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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
TechCrunch 11 Jul 2026
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," th...

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
TechCrunch 10 Jul 2026
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
TechCrunch 10 Jul 2026
Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

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 year...

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
TechCrunch 10 Jul 2026
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

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 10 Jul 2026
Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

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 year...

OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
TechCrunch 10 Jul 2026
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

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 10 Jul 2026
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s No. 2 role

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...

OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

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 9 Jul 2026
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

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 a...

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

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 ...

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

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 9 Jul 2026
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

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

Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

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 automatio...

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a ne...

Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Unt...

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia

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...

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
TechCrunch 9 Jul 2026
How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

"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 9 Jul 2026
Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos

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 ca...

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