OpenAI has reportedly overhauled its security operations to protect against corporate espionage. According to the Financial Times, the company accelerated an existing security clampdown after Chinese startup DeepSeek released a competing model in January, with OpenAI alleging that DeepSeek improperly copied its models using “distillation” techniques. The beefed-up security includes “information tenting” policies that limit...
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July 8, 2025July 8, 2025Tech Crunch
Meta reportedly recruits Apple’s head of AI models
Ruoming Pang previously ran Apple’s in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features.
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July 8, 2025July 8, 2025Tech Crunch
Tulum Energy rediscovered a forgotten hydrogen tech and used it to raise $27M
Results of a 20-year-old curiosity now form the basis of Tulum, a startup that has attracted significant investor attention.
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July 8, 2025July 8, 2025Tech Crunch
Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users
Cursor’s CEO issued an apology this weekend over an unclear change to its pricing model that resulted in some users being charged more.
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July 7, 2025July 7, 2025Tech Crunch
‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”
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July 7, 2025July 7, 2025Tech Crunch
At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused in other industries like satellite space companies like Loft Orbital and blockchain-based trading site...
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July 7, 2025July 7, 2025Tech Crunch
X blocked Reuters accounts in India
The main Reuters news account, as well as the Reuters World account, have apparently been inaccessible to X users in India since Saturday evening.
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July 7, 2025July 7, 2025Tech Crunch
Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback.
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July 7, 2025July 7, 2025Tech Crunch
How Brex is keeping up with AI by embracing the ‘messiness’
Brex quickly realized its normal software procurement process wouldn’t work in the age of AI and found a new way to test and vet tools.
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July 6, 2025July 6, 2025Tech Crunch
Drive Capital’s second act – how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split
The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour. For Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, this cycle of attention and disinterest played out against the backdrop of its own internal upheaval several years ago — a co-founder...