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Volkswagen’s Silicon Valley software hub is already stacked with Rivian talent

The blockbuster $5 billion deal between Volkswagen Group and Rivian is just days old. But it turns out, VW Group was tapping into Rivian’s software

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The RIAA’s lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs

Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models. This they have as much as admitted, even

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Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing

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Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund

Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has

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Black founders are creating tailored ChatGPTs for a more personalized experience

At first, John Pasmore was excited about ChatGPT.  The serial founder had been in the artificial intelligence space since at least 2008. He recalled the

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Apple’s Spotlight Search gets better at natural language queries in iOS 18

Even as Apple embraces AI in iOS 18, it’s working to improve users’ ability to get answers in a more traditional way: through its Spotlight

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Apple unveils MacOS Sequoia | TechCrunch

MacOS got a few noteworthy upgrades at Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference this year in Cupertino. The latest version is called MacOS Sequoia. One of the

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Apple’s generative AI offering might not work with the standard iPhone 15

Apple is set to board the runaway locomotive that is generative AI at next week’s World Wide Developer Conference. Reports thus far have pointed to

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AI apocalypse? ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity all went down at the same time

After a multi-hour outage that took place in the early hours of the morning, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot went down again — but this time, it

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VCs are selling shares of hot AI companies like Anthropic and xAI to small investors in a wild SPV market

VCs are clamoring to invest in hot AI companies, willing to pay exorbitant share prices for coveted spots on their cap tables. Even so, most