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Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build AI factories, a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflections AI models on their own proprietary data.

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

Ghost announced Monday its official emergence from stealth and an $11 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.

TechCrunch attended Pears latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI.

HackerRanks AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.

OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after your image generation results appear in the U.S. only for now.

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Lola Vision Systems is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies

The Danish government said the breach of names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers affects 8 million people, including people living abroad and the deceased.

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

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Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

The proposed legislation would extend to all automotica license plate readers.

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

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With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created crash-test dummies to solve that.