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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff  that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’TOP STORY
ChatGPTThe VergeJul 18, 8:54 PM

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he'd roll into the

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Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

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The VergeJul 18, 12:00 PM

The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been recording the next season of Version History [&#82

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Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back outAI Tools
TechCrunchJul 18, 4:47 AM

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.

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Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performsAI Tools
TechCrunchJul 17, 10:55 PM

Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.

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Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second actAI Tools
TechCrunchJul 17, 10:12 PM

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’AI Tools
TechCrunchJul 17, 9:20 PM

The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?

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Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyardAI Tools
TechCrunchJul 17, 8:19 PM

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

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AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone marketAI Tools
TechCrunchJul 17, 8:09 PM

AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.

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TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection toolAI Tools
The VergeJul 17, 7:34 PM

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar

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How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plansOpenAI
TechCrunchJul 17, 5:45 PM

How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI&

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Apple’s plot to crush OpenAIOpenAI
The VergeJul 17, 5:41 PM

Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking themAI Tools
TechCrunchJul 17, 3:21 PM

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.

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Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAIOpenAI
TechCrunchJul 17, 2:00 PM

Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI&

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A scorecard for the AI ageOpenAI
OpenAIJul 17, 10:00 AM

A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

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The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costsAI Tools
VentureBeatJul 16, 7:16 PM

The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none of them use today; a majority intend to

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The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentialsAI Tools
VentureBeatJul 16, 7:02 PM

The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, and most agents still share credentials;

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New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the stateAI Tools
The VergeJul 16, 5:58 PM

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy" to check for o

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The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fixAI Tools
VentureBeatJul 16, 5:06 PM

The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix

Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken the dedicated vector databases that define the category — yet a m

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The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anywayAI Tools
VentureBeatJul 16, 4:40 PM

The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully trusts automated evaluation today; and

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Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini NotebookGemini
The VergeJul 16, 4:00 PM

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before

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Connect more of your apps to SearchGemini
Google AIJul 16, 4:00 PM

Connect more of your apps to Search

You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.

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Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updatesGemini
Google AIJul 16, 4:00 PM

Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates

Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.

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Why teens deserve access to safe AIOpenAI
OpenAIJul 16, 4:00 PM

Why teens deserve access to safe AI

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.

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The VergeJul 16, 1:00 PM

Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you

1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can authorize Claude to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel and managing online accounts on their

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Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in EuropeGemini
The VergeJul 16, 12:06 PM

Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe

Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday, could weaken Google's control over two of the tech industry's most imp

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Computer copsAI Tools
The VergeJul 16, 11:00 AM

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I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as "the future of policing in the digital age." As press, I was prohibited from entering, but from a number of nearby locations, I met with attendees who told me […]

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How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAIOpenAI
OpenAIJul 16, 12:00 AM

How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.

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Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agentsAI Tools
VentureBeatJul 15, 10:24 PM

Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot w

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xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’AI Tools
The VergeJul 15, 9:33 PM

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and

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