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Humans provide neccessary ‘checks and balance’ for AI, says Lattice CEO

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Of all the words in the dictionary, Sarah Franklin says “balance” is perhaps her favorite – especially when it comes to companies embracing AI. Franklin leads the Jack Altman-founded employee performance software company Lattice, which is now worth $3 billion. Both on stage at SXSW London and in conversation with TechCrunch, she spoke a lot […]

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A deep dive on AI safety and ethics with Databricks and ElevenLabs

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As AI tools become cheaper and more accessible, the stakes for safety and ethics have never been higher. ElevenLabs’ Head of AI Safety Artemis Seaford and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica joined TechCrunch AI editor Kyle Wiggers for a critical discussion on the multitude of ethical challenges facing AI today.  From deepfakes to responsible deployment, they

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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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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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Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally

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Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones. Called Google AI Edge Gallery, the app is available for Android and will soon come to iOS. It allows users to find, download, and run compatible models

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Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out

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Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, is gaining a more prominent place in your inbox with the launch of email summary cards, which will appear at the top of your emails. The company announced Thursday that users would no longer have to tap an option to summarize an email with AI. Instead, the AI will now automatically

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DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU

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DeepSeek’s updated R1 reasoning AI model might be getting the bulk of the AI community’s attention this week. But the Chinese AI lab also released a smaller, “distilled” version of its new R1, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, that DeepSeek claims beats comparably-sized models on certain benchmarks. The smaller updated R1, which was built using the Qwen3-8B model Alibaba

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