It's not clear who cut the cables or why.
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Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea | TechCrunch
In a status update, the company said traffic going through the Middle East or ending in Asia or Europe had been affected. It did not say who had cu...
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Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. It is reportedly in the process of raising another round that would value it at $14 billion, up […]
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What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor | TechCrunch
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontie...
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This is a bad idea.
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Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction? | TechCrunch
On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to re-create the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic film...
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This is the EU's largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to "nullify" it.
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EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech ‘abuse’ | TechCrunch
This is the EU's largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to "nullify" it.
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Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company's board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.
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Musk's $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises | TechCrunch
Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and 1 million humanoid robots per year. The company's board wants far less than that in exch...
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As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.
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The growing debate over expanding age-verification laws | TechCrunch
As age- and identity-verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.
OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.
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OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT's personality | TechCrunch
OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.
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Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
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Screw the money -- Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers | TechCrunch
Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it...
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Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.
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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down | TechCrunch
Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens. 
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Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’ | TechCrunch
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their conc...
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