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Amazon may up its investment in Anthropic — on one condition

Amazon is considering increasing its investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic. According to The Information, Amazon is in talks to invest multiple billions in Anthropic, its first financial pledge in the company since a $4 billion deal struck last year. The new investment is structured similar to the last one — but with a twist. Amazon […]

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AI-powered parenting is here and a16z is ready to back it 

AI wants to help us drive better, write better, and diagnose diseases faster. Now imagine AI helping you be a better parent.  Andreessen Horowitz partner Justine Moore introduced a new investment thesis for the firm on X on Thursday, endorsing “a new wave of ‘parenting co-pilots’ built with LLMs and agents.” She pointed to companies

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Microsoft Outlook now lets you create personalized AI-powered themes

Microsoft announced on Thursday that Outlook is getting a new feature that will allow you to use generative AI to create themes based on your personal preferences. AI-powered themes are available to people who have a Copilot Pro consumer subscription and business accounts with Copilot enabled. They are available on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and

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Apple iOS 18.2 public beta arrives with new AI features, but some remain waitlisted

Apple has released the AI-powered version of its latest mobile operating system, iOS 18.2, to its public beta users. The update includes new features like an AI emoji generator app called Genmoji, an Image Playground AI image app, ChatGPT integration with Siri, and visual search using the iPhone 16 cameras, among other things. Previously, these

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This Week in AI: It’s shockingly easy to make a Kamala Harris deepfake

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It was shockingly easy to create a convincing Kamala Harris audio deepfake on Election Day. It cost me $5 and took less than two minutes, illustrating how cheap, ubiquitous generative AI has opened the floodgates to

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