<p>Tonight’s your last shot: Take on the TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown and walk away with two tickets for just $200. The window closes tonight at midnight — go! Think you know AI? Can you name the company that created the AI assistant known as Siri before Apple acquired it? Or the name of Google’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs &#8212; a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon. </p>

<p>French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own &#8220;vibe coding&#8221; client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere&#8217;s Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code, a fork of the open source project Continue, is an AI-powered coding assistant that bundles Mistral&#8217;s models, an &#8220;in-IDE&#8221; assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tools into a single [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tomorrow, the doors open at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. What happens next isn’t just another AI conference — it’s the one you need to be at. TechCrunch Sessions: AI gathers the most influential builders, investors, and researchers in artificial intelligence for a day of clarity in an industry clouded by hype. If you&#8217;re leading a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Journaling app Rosebud has raised $6 million in seed funding as it seeks to flesh out its app as an AI mentor for self-reflection and personal growth. </p>

<p>Thunder Code tackles slow, manual testing with AI-powered “agents” that mimic human testers. These agents simulate QA processes, catch subtle UI and UX issues, and learn from feedback.</p>

<p>Windsurf, the popular vibe-coding startup that&#8217;s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, says Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models.</p>

<p>Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that&#8217;s generated mostly by the company&#8217;s AI model family, Claude. Populated by posts on technical topics related to various Claude use cases (e.g. &#8220;Simplify complex codebases with Claude&#8221;), the blog is intended to be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A film that will portray the chaotic time at OpenAI, when co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was fired and rehired within a span of just five days, is reportedly in the works.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is titled “Artificial,” and it’s in development at Amazon MGM Studios. While details aren’t finalized, sources [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday. LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of Life Institute, among others. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>DeepSeek didn&#8217;t reveal the source of the data it used to train the updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model, but some AI researchers speculate that at least a portion came from Google&#8217;s Gemini family of AI.</p>

<p>We’re down to the final two days before TechCrunch Sessions: AI unites the broader AI community at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on Thursday, June 5! Expect a packed agenda with top speakers, expert panels, top-tier networking, and Side Events from our partners. One of our speakers is Andrei Papancea, CEO and co-founder of NLX, who [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The countdown continues, and only a few tables remain if you want to exhibit at TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston, so now’s the moment to act. Only 4 days remain to book your table and until space is almost completely gone.&nbsp; Why your startup should be in the room&nbsp; This founder-focused conference [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Think you know which AI assistant was the first to use natural language processing for everyday tasks? Or which researcher coined the term &#8220;deep learning,&#8221; revolutionizing AI? If so, this is your chance to win two TechCrunch Sessions: AI tickets for a discounted rate of one. Test your AI smarts — win a chance to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In just 2 days, TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall for a one-day summit built for the minds shaping AI. Expect hard questions, bold ideas, and real insight—designed to challenge your assumptions, sharpen your competitive edge, and maybe — just maybe — redefine the trajectory of your research, your product, or your [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A startup called Wispr Flow feels it can outdo the bigwigs with its dictation tech that supports more than 100 languages.</p>

<p>Console&#8217;s mission is to help IT teams reduce mundane, repetitive tasks, thereby freeing up time for help desk professionals to work on more strategic and sophisticated projects.</p>

<p>Creatify&#8217;s AdMax platform uses AI to quickly generate dozens of video advertisements, which are geared toward social media marketing</p>

<p>Microsoft Bing announced Monday that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI&#8217;s Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts.</p>

<p>Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database partner, late this afternoon.</p>