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MIT Technology Review AI 16 days ago
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AI’s giants want to take over the classroom

School’s out and it’s high summer, but a bunch of teachers are plotting how they’re going to use AI this upcoming school year.   On July 8, OpenAI, Microsoft, and...

TechCrunch AI 16 days ago
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Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building...

VentureBeat AI 16 days ago
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Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

Cognition CEO Scott Wu and interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said they would start by integrating the AI-powered engineer Devin into Windsurf.

VentureBeat AI 16 days ago
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Amazon launches Kiro, its own Claude-powered challenger to Windsurf and Codex

Initial community reactions to Kiro were mixed, but developers were intrigued, praising the emphasis on specs, hooks and structure.

TechCrunch AI 16 days ago
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Elon Musk’s Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl

Musk wrote in an X post on Monday that AI companions are now available in the Grok app for "Super Grok" subscribers who pay $30 per month.

TechCrunch AI 16 days ago
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As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2025

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

TechCrunch AI 16 days ago
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Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf

The announcement comes just days after Google hired away Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $2. 4 billion reverse-acquihire that left much of the...

TechCrunch AI 16 days ago
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Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on ‘unoriginal’ Facebook content

Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

TechCrunch AI 16 days ago
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Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major...

VentureBeat AI 16 days ago
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Finally, a dev kit for designing on-device, mobile AI apps is here: Liquid AI’s LEAP

LEAP addresses those needs head-on with a local-first approach that allows small models to run directly on-device, no cloud infrastructure.