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Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc andDiabrowsers, for $610 million in cash. “Today’s browsers weren’t built for work; they were built for browsing. This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and […]

The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models likeAnthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku,Meta’s Llama 4 Scout,Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, andOpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. With DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, includingOpenAI’s GPT-4oandGPT-5,Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, andMeta’s Llama Maverick. “These bigger models are better

French AI startupMistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investmentat a post-money valuation of $14 billion, reports Bloomberg, positioning the company as one of Europe’s most valuable tech startups. The2-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences. Mistral

Scale AI, which helps tech companies prepare data to train their AI models, filed a lawsuit against one of its former sales employees and its rival Mercor on Wednesday. The suit claims the employee, who was hired by Mercor, “stole more than 100 confidential documents concerning Scale’s customer strategies and other proprietary information,” according to

Apple’s Siri overhaul may include an AI-powered web search tool with technology powered by Google’s Gemini, according to a new report fromBloomberg’sMark Gurman. The iPhone maker, which has been criticized for falling behind in the AI race, delayed its long-awaited Siri update until 2026. In the meantime, the company has been scrambling to determine whether

Mike Liberatore, xAI’s chief financial officer,has left the company, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. This marks the latest in a string of high-profile executive departures.  The former Airbnb executive joined the company in April and left around the end of July, per the WSJ. While at xAI, he helped orchestrate the company’s

CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquireOpenPipe, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian

Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture school. “I got to meet fruit professors who are the best in the world at what they do,” Wu told TechCrunch. “Through talking to them,

Google’s AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLMnow lets users customizethe tone of their Audio Overviews, which are podcasts with AI virtual hosts that summarize and discuss documents shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs. When generating an Audio Overview, users can now choose whether they want their AI podcasts to be formatted

The Trump administration wants the United States to bethedominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one way the administration hopes to achieve primacy is by bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. To help with that transition, President Donald Trump has introducedpotential chip tariffs and policiesin recent months meant to bring more semiconductor