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Why California’s SB 53 might provide a meaningful check on big AI companies
California’s state senate recently gave final approval to a new AI safety bill, SB 53, sending it to Governor Gavin Newsom to either sign or veto. If this all sounds familiar, that’s because Newsom vetoed another AI…
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YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary
YouTube Music is testing AI music hosts that provide relevant stories, fan trivia, and commentary about what you’re listening to, the company announced on Friday. The move comes two years after Spotify launched an AI DJ that…
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Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed
Manny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid. Paid just closed an oversubscribed $21.6 million seed round led by Lightspeed. With the…
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OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs
OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs. The test, GDPval, is an early attempt at understanding how close…
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Updates to Studio, YouTube Live, new GenAI tools, and everything else announced at Made on YouTube
At its annual Made on YouTube event this week, YouTube unveiled tons of new updates, features, and tools geared toward creators, including updates to YouTube Live, new ways to monetize, and more. Studio updates include “likeness” detection…
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Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption
Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its AI product, Agent Bricks, as part of a $100 million multi-year deal that bets on the AI…
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Earthmover wants to become the Snowflake of weather and geospatial data
Few things generate as much data as simply observing Earth from above. But Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman very quickly realized that all that data still wasn’t enough for their startup to thrive. Their data-centric, climate tech…
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Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps
In the last decade, as the camera quality of smartphones improved, platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok rose in popularity for photo and video sharing. Many people turned from casual posters to money-earning creators. Emergent, a company…
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Telo raises $20 million to build tiny electric trucks for cities
Big electric trucks are having a hard time. The Cybertruck is a bust, Stellantis just canceled the Ram 1500 REV, and even sales of Ford’s promising F-150 Lightning have been on the decline. But the United States…
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StrictlyVC at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: The full LP track agenda revealed
StrictlyVC is back at TechCrunch Disrupt in October, bringing together the insiders who shape the venture capital landscape, this time with a sharper focus on the market’s biggest challenge: liquidity. In an era of extended exit timelines,…
