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OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement

OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13…

AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire

The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased au…

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecur…

Nokia Open-Sources AnyJev: A Training-Free Layer That Turns Any Open LLM Into a Calibrated Decision Model

Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It needs no training.…

Kyutai Releases Voice of Reason: A Speech-Native Model that Solves Spoken Math with Reinforcement Learning

Kyutai has released Voice of Reason, 2 open-weight speech-to-speech models built on GLM-4-Voice-9B. Supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement…

OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna: 50% Cheaper API Pricing and Benchmarks

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, 2 lower-cost models trained with methods similar to GPT-6 Astra. Sol costs $2/$10 and Luna $0.…

‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI

Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admit…

SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone

Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back ex…

SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone: Turning Your Voice into Polished Communication, and Action across Apps

Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back ex…

OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again

After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it…

TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4

Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starti…

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as rep…

Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.

Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace…

Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Running Cost Than Opus 5

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. The team states it performs at the level of Claude Fab…

How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement

Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 t…

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silico…