Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI | TechCrunch
… Prior to working with Alibaba, Apple was reportedly exploring a deal with Baidu but faced issues adapting its models for Chinese customers. …
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Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C | TechCrunch
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Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls | TechCrunch
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DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI | TechCrunch
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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's no. 2 role | TechCrunch
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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots | TechCrunch
… Doshi told TechCrunch that “3.5 Pro becomes your orchestrator, your planner, and then it actually can leverage Flash to be the various sub-agents. …
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models | TechCrunch
… And its leaders have ambitious goals. “It’s pretty easy to imagine this as a trillion-dollar company someday if we execute well,” Chris Taylor, CEO of Ode and co-founder of Fractional, told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “The key challenge of the business is how do you go through that phase … …
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human | TechCrunch
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