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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.08 // 17:11

Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products coll...

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.08 // 17:00

OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.08 // 16:22

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.08 // 15:41

These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.08 // 12:00

Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.08 // 08:00

Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.08 // 07:16

AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round

AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.07 // 22:18

Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.07 // 20:04

Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.

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Techcrunch Ai

// 2026.07.07 // 19:58

Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

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