<p>DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after&nbsp;its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques,&nbsp;have led Wall Street analysts&nbsp;—&nbsp;and technologists&nbsp;— to question whether the U.S. can maintain its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chinese startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on the developer platform Hugging Face after announcing it in a WeChat message Wednesday morning. The updated R1, which is under a permissive MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially, is a &#8220;minor&#8221; upgrade, according to DeepSeek&#8217;s WeChat announcement. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Odyssey has developed an AI model that lets users &#8220;interact&#8221; with streaming video.</p>

<p>The redesign adds new AI features, Reimagine and Auto Frame, which were previously only available on Pixel devices.</p>

<p>Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is joining Anthropic&#8217;s board of directors, the company announced on Wednesday.</p>

<p>AMD has acquired Enosemi, a startup designing custom materials to support silicon photonics product development.</p>

<p>Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has started rolling out the beta version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. </p>

<p>AI-powered office suite Context raises $11 million in seed funding from Lux Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and General Catalyst.</p>

<p>Rillet directly pulls data from their customers&#8217; banks and platforms to generate financial statements, including the balance sheet and income statement.</p>

<p>After the market closes on Wednesday, Nvidia will report earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2026, which ended on April 27. While many in the industry are likely eager to hear how the recent whiplash surrounding U.S. chip export controls will impact Nvidia&#8217;s international chip business and future guidance, not everyone thinks [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We were blown away by the incredible interest in speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco.  After a thorough review, we’ve narrowed it down to 20 standout finalists — 10 for breakout sessions and 10 for roundtables. Now it’s your turn to decide. Audience Choice voting is open [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A familiar problem is facing new entrants in the AI industry: How do you break through when the incumbents are so entrenched? That’s just one of the questions we’re tackling at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, happening June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. We’re not just offering answers — we’re bringing insights from top experts like [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall in just one week — join us June 5 for a full day of networking, learning sessions, satellite events, and more. And we’re adding another excellent speaker to our already packed lineup: Tkxel founder and CEO Umair Javed, who will be exploring the potency and potential [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app.</p>

<p>Atomic Canyon raised $7 million in a seed round to expand its document search AI for nuclear power plants.</p>

<p>Opera&#8217;s new browser, called Opera Neon, will focus on AI workflows and performing tasks for you, like shopping, coding and generating reports.</p>

<p>Humain, the state-owned AI company from Saudi Arabia, is reportedly on track to launch a $10 billion venture fund, Humain Ventures.</p>

<p>Anthropic has begun to roll out a &#8220;voice mode&#8221; for its Claude chatbot apps. The voice mode (in beta for now) allows Claude mobile app users to have &#8220;complete spoken conversations with Claude,&#8221; and will arrive in English over the next few weeks, according to Anthropic&#8217;s official account on X and updated documentation on the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is exploring ways for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT account, the company noted on a web page published Tuesday. OpenAI is currently gauging interest from developers who might want to integrate this service into their apps. ChatGPT is quickly becoming one of the largest consumer applications in the world, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Now, the company&#8217;s AI personnel will be assigned to an AI products team, or an AGI Foundations unit. No jobs appear to have been cut.</p>