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Silicon Valley’s impact on the election and an acquisition making our HeadSpin

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Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is packed with deals, antitrust musings, AI and more.  To kick things off, Kirsten walked us through Elon Musk’s recent declaration of his intent to move both SpaceX and X’s headquarters out of California to Texas. Whether or […]

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The EU just re-elected its president for another five years — here’s what that means for tech

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The European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, was confirmed in the role for another five years Thursday after parliamentarians voted overwhelmingly to re-elect her. The scale of her support (401 votes for vs 284 against with 15 abstentions) — a far firmer endorsement than last time around — may say more about lawmakers’ concerns

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OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a smaller and cheaper AI model

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OpenAI introduced GPT-4o mini on Thursday, its latest small AI model. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s current cutting-edge AI models, is being released for developers, as well as through the ChatGPT web and mobile app for consumers, starting today. Enterprise users will gain access next week. The company

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Proton launches ‘privacy-first’ AI writing assistant for email that runs on-device

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Privacy app maker Proton has launched a new AI-enabled writing assistant that helps users compose emails based on simple prompts, while also capable of redrafting and proofreading an existing email before it’s sent. The launch sees Proton continue on a trajectory that has seen it replicate many of Google’s products and features in the productivity

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Samsung to acquire UK-based knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantic Technologies

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Samsung’s busy feeding its AI ambitions for its consumer devices. Earlier this year, the electronics giant said it would bring its Galaxy AI and Google’s AI model Gemini to its products, including its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy 24, and just last week, the company unveiled the latest versions of its two-foldable phones — the Galaxy

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Israel’s startup scene shows reslience despite nine months of war

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When the war between Israel and Hamas broke out last October, we examined its potential impact on the tech ecosystems in Israel and Palestine. Nine months later, the prevailing sentiment in Israel, based on my conversation with founders and investors, is that the conflict has made the startup and VC ecosystem more resilient, especially its

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TTT models might be the next frontier in generative AI

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After years of dominance by the form of AI known as the transformer, the hunt is on for new architectures. Transformers underpin OpenAI’s video-generating model Sora, and they’re at the heart of text-generating models like Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and GPT-4o. But they’re beginning to run up against technical roadblocks — in particular, computation-related roadblocks. Transformers aren’t especially

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Tribe AI raised venture capital to keep up with demand after six years of bootstrapping

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When Jaclyn Rice Nelson and Noah Gale launched AI talent and services company Tribe AI in 2019, they had to convince companies that having an AI strategy mattered. After the release of ChatGPT in 2022 and the AI mania it ushered in, the startup has experienced a “massive boom” in demand, Gale told TechCrunch. Rice

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