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Zillow’s new AI staging feature is impressively unimpressive

Better imagine living in a property with an AI tool that makes almost imperceptible changes to style and furniture.

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Exclusive: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate, sources say

The two-year-old startup has been in discussions with investors for a Series C round.

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Watch Apple's AirPod Pro 3 live translation feature in action | TechCrunch

Get a look at the real-time translation the new AirPods Pro 3 bring to your ears, which you can prompt through a gesture. Powered by Apple Intelligence, it uses noise cancellation to reduce the volume of the speaker to elevate the provided translation to the user. It came as one of several updates to the […]

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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

A federal judge has rejected the $1.5 billion settlement that Anthropic agreed to pay authors for allegedly using pirated copies of their books for AI training.

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From mixers to pitch-offs — your brand event belongs at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

Amplify your brand during TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 by hosting a Side Event. Connect with Disrupt attendees and the surrounding tech scene Apply by Sept 12.

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Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic | TechCrunch

The move to diversify its AI partnerships by tapping the shoulder of OpenAI’s top rival comes as the AI company also pursues independence from Microsoft with its own AI infrastructure and a potential LinkedIn competitor.

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Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event

Apple’s hotly-anticipated Apple event was chock-full of news about updates to AirPods, the Apple Watch, the new suite of iPhones, and more. Its AI push was disappointing.

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Apple's new iPhone 17 devices don't have an AI-powered Siri yet. It doesn't matter. | TechCrunch

Until now, Apple has only released what could be considered baseline AI features for its devices, like AI writing tools, summarization, generative AI images (which some complain are not very good), live translation, visual search, and Genmoji, among others.

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I am delighted to have been awarded another scholarship from Turing College – this time for AI Ethics, a programme funded by the EU initiative DIVERSIFAIR to help professionals build ethical AI that’s fair, transparent, and accountable — not just technically accurate.
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Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference | TechCrunch

Nvidia's relentless development cycle has resulted in enormous profits for the company, which brought in $41.1 billion in data center sales in its most recent quarter.

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