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Democratizing AI: Google Cloud’s vision for accessible agent development

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Google Cloud’s Iliana Quinonez takes a deep dive into why the company sees a critical importance in democratizing AI agent development for organizational advancement. This presentation, held at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, is perfect for anyone new to AI or those well-versed in the field, as we all discover how AI agents can enhance collaborative workflows […]

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The case for AI co-founders, from less equity dilution to an infinite memory

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Kisson Lin’s vision for AI co-founders challenges everything we know about startup dynamics. Speaking at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, the Tanka CEO argued that today’s founders face an impossible burden: endless context-switching among investor updates, product development, and team management. Her solution? AI co-founders that handle routine tasks with perfect memory and infinite availability. Unlike human

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Cut through the AI hype and learn what really gets funded in 2025

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AI investments hit $110 billion in 2024, and the funding landscape is more competitive than ever. This panel at TechCrunch Sessions: AI features three expert panelists: CapitalG partner Jill Chase; Kanu Gulati, a partner at Khosla; and Accell partner Sara Ittelson. They talked about why people are probably too worried about crafting the perfect pitch

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Toyota and NLX: Making AI work in the world of car repairs

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Amid brands struggling to bring AI concepts and prototypes into full-scale production, NLX and Toyota shared their experiences with actionable advice on using AI to solve significant business problems and navigating the process from executive buy-in, to technology integration to change management.  NLX co-founder and CEO Andrei Papancea and Kordel France, principal AI engineer at

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Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’

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Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us

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Anthropic unveils custom AI models for U.S. national security customers

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Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. The new models, a custom set of “Claude Gov” models, were “built based on direct feedback from our government customers to address real-world operational needs,” writes Anthropic in a blog post. Compared to Anthropic’s consumer- and enterprise-focused

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans

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In a Bloomberg interview Wednesday night in downtown San Francisco, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make half the company’s 180,000-person workforce redundant. Instead, Pichai stressed the company’s commitment to growth through at least next year. “I expect we will grow from our current engineering phase even into next

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North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment

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Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs poured $69.7 billion into North America-based AI and machine learning startups across 1,528 deals. That’s

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Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

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It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize

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Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data

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Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site’s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic’s unauthorized use of the site’s data for commercial purposes was unlawful, and alleges the AI startup violated

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