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TechCrunch · Fri, 21 Aug 2026
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in
Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?
Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.
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The Decoder · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google's Gemini Omni Flash
Adobe is making three AI audio tools broadly available in Firefly. Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects create royalty-free music, voiceovers, and sound effects for video projec
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
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The Decoder · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable
LLMs don't write in a recognizable style because they can't do better. Post-training and safety guardrails sharply narrow their expressive range, argues Pangram CTO Bradley Emi. Base models without th
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users
Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast
Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of ten hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.
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MIT Tech Review · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such
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The Decoder · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?
Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there's real evidence for it. But guilty or not, the conclusion is the same: a model le
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Ars Technica · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
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The Decoder · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single demo
Robotics startup Generalist AI has unveiled GEN-1.5, an AI model that teaches robots new tasks from a single demonstration. The article GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single de
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The Decoder · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
KI-Pioneer Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" in the face of an infinitely complex world
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" for scaling large language models. The world is infinitely complex, and any simulation of it is "microscopic," with human expert
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.
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MIT Tech Review · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Support networks aim to help kids through the poly
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The Decoder · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Anthropic's most capable model, codenamed "Model 2," is for internal use only
Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model internally that is more powerful than any publicly available version of Claude. The article Anthropic's most capable model, codenamed "Model 2," i
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MIT Tech Review · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
The next big thing in hydrogen could be underground
There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel in everything from large trucks t
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MIT Tech Review · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models
Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point routes, with passengers requiring multiple connections. The a
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TechCrunch · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
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The Decoder · Thu, 20 Aug 2026
China now has its own AI circular financing scheme
Unitree Robotics rose 460 percent in its Shanghai IPO, hitting a valuation of around $50 billion. But an FT report shows much of the demand for its robots comes from state-backed training centers that
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