<p>Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page report to describe the speed at which AI is being developed, adopted, spent on, and used.</p>

<p>Google is putting AI to work on your inbox, whether or not it&#8217;s something you want to use.</p>

<p>We’re thrilled by the overwhelming response to our call for speakers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. After a careful selection process, we’ve narrowed it down to 20 impressive finalists — 10 breakout sessions and 10 roundtables. Now it’s your turn to help shape the agenda. Audience [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Google has fixed a bug that led AI Overviews to say it&#8217;s 2024 when it was asked if this year is 2025.</p>

<p>Grammarly has secured a $1 billion commitment from General Catalyst.</p>

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<p>AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots.</p>

<p>Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X&#8217;s Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite of image-generating models — some of which can both create and edit pics. The most capable of the models in the new family, called Flux.1 Kontext, can be prompted with text [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Delaware&#8217;s attorney general is hiring an investment bank to advise on OpenAI&#8217;s for-profit conversion.</p>

<p>Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, on Thursday released Perplexity Labs, a tool for subscribers to Perplexity&#8217;s $20-per-month Pro plan that can craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more. Perplexity Labs is available on the web, iOS, and Android, and coming soon to Perplexity&#8217;s apps for Mac and Windows. &#8220;Perplexity Labs can help you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>DeepSeek&#8217;s updated R1 reasoning AI model is getting the bulk of the AI community&#8217;s attention this week. </p>

<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek&#8217;s newest AI model, an updated version of the company&#8217;s R1 reasoning model, achieves impressive scores on benchmarks for coding, math, and general knowledge, nearly surpassing OpenAI&#8217;s flagship o3. But the upgraded R1, also known as &#8220;R1-0528,&#8221; might also be less willing to answer contentious questions, in particular questions about topics the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta AI now has one billion monthly active users across its apps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, as first reported by CNBC. The new milestone doubles the 500 million monthly active users Meta AI had back in September 2024. The “focus for this year is deepening the experience [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Nearly two years after suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, The New York Times has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon to train the tech giant’s AI platforms. </p>

<p>In the construction industry, managers can easily become disconnected from what’s happening on-site. Among the many tasks to juggle are staying apprised of costs, communicating with all stakeholders, and assessing risk related to aspects like contractor billing and performance. Buildots wants to change all of that through AI and computer vision. Founded in 2018 by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia and AMD will soon begin selling new GPUs made for AI workloads in China to comply with US chip export restrictions. </p>

<p>Nvidia incurred a $4.5 billion charge in Q1 due to licensing requirements impacting its ability to sell its H20 AI chip to companies in China.</p>