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Cognition, the AI coding startup that acquired rival company Windsurf three weeks ago, laid off 30 employees last week and is offering buyouts to the roughly 200 remaining employees on the team,reports The Information. This is the latest bout of whiplash that Windsurf employees have faced after a tumultuous stretch for the company. The startup […]

The AI audio-generationunicornElevenLabsannounced a new model on Tuesday that allows users togenerate music, which it claims is cleared for commercial use. This move marks ElevenLabs’ expansion beyond its main focus thus far in its three years of existence, which has been building AI audio tools. ElevenLabs is a leader among companies making text-to-speech AI products,

The semiconductor industry’s rollercoaster year continues with another major development. President Donald Trump said onCNBC’s Squawk Boxon Tuesday that his administration is planning to announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips as soon as next week. However, the specifics of these tariffs remain unclear. Such tariffs could cause quite a disruption for U.S. hardware and AI

Finding product-market fit isn’t a milestone — it’s a messy, make-or-break journey. And atTechCrunch Disrupt 2025,a founder who’s been through the fire and two investors who’ve helped startups hit escape velocity will break down how to do it right. On theBuilders Stage, Rajat Bhageria (Founder & CEO, Chef Robotics), Ann Bordetsky (Partner, NEA), and Murali

Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 3, its latest foundation world model that can be used to train general-purpose AI agents, a capability that the AI lab says makes for a crucial stepping stone on the path to “artificial general intelligence,” or human-like intelligence.  “Genie 3 is the first real-time interactive general-purpose world model,” Shlomi Fruchter,

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Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now OpenAI’sChatGPTwill reach700 million weekly active usersthis week, the company announced Monday, cementing its position as one of the fastest-adopted software products in history just as the company prepares to release

Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities.  Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security,announcedMonday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software. Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company’s AI department DeepMind as well as

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Afterseizing the summerwith a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals,Alibaba’s crack “Qwen

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflarepublished researchsaying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities. The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when