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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 company’s ability to bring in enterprise customers. The deal highlights the accelerating race to bring generative AI into the enterprise stack, as companies foresee demand for AI tools that can tap into corporate data securely. Agent Bricks lets organizations build AI apps and agents on top of their enterprise data using a range of AI models. OpenAI’s latest models are now part of…

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In this photo illustration, the logo of Xiaomi’s XRing O1 chipset is seen on May 19, 2025 in Beijing, China. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced on the evening of May 15 that the company’s self-developed smartphone SoC, XRING 01, will be officially launched in late May.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesChinese technology giant Xiaomi is planning a new high-end chip for its smartphones, a top executive at the company told CNBC, but won’t release one on a yearly basis like rival Apple.Xu Fei, the vice president of Xiaomi, discussed the firm’s semiconductor ambitions, giving details about its roadmap…

On Thursday, the AI platform Clarifai announced a new reasoning engine that it claims will make running AI models twice as fast and 40% less expensive. Designed to be adaptable to a variety of models and cloud hosts, the system employs a range of optimizations to get more inference power out of the same hardware. “It’s a variety of different types of optimizations, all the way down to CUDA kernels to advanced speculative decoding techniques,” said CEO Matthew Zeiler. “You can get more out of the same cards, basically.” The results were verified by a string of benchmark tests by…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai waves as he arrives to attend the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, February 11, 2025. Benoit Tessier | ReutersGoogle long touted the need for factually accurate information on its platforms, but a letter submitted to Congress this week demonstrates how the tech company is shifting to prioritize “free expression.”The company’s YouTube division on Tuesday said it will soon allow accounts that were previously banned for spreading misinformation related to Covid-19 and the 2020 U.S. election to apply for reinstatement. The company made the announcement through the letter, which was…

Meta announced on Thursday that its Teen Accounts are now being expanded to teens on Facebook and Messenger globally, after initially only being available to users in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada. The accounts, which feature built-in protections and parental controls for younger users, first launched on Instagram last fall. Teen Accounts were originally launched shortly after Meta and other popular social networks were grilled by U.S. lawmakers for not doing enough to protect teens on their services. With the global expansion on Facebook and Messenger, teens will now automatically be placed into an experience that is designed to limit inappropriate…

One day, Shashwat Murarka sat in his college apartment thinking about his relationship with food delivery. Sometimes, the order never arrived, and he had to wander through his apartment building, looking for the misplaced food. Other times, he found himself giving step-by-step directions to confused deliverers who, it seemed, were just as annoyed as he.  “What started as frustration turned into a mission to fix one of the most overlooked problems in the supply chain, the final stretch of the last mile,” he told TechCrunch. He started studying the delivery supply chain, ran deliveries himself, and decided during his senior…

Samsung is overcoming limitations of existing benchmarks to better assess the real-world productivity of AI models in enterprise settings. The new system, developed by Samsung Research and named TRUEBench, aims to address the growing disparity between theoretical AI performance and its actual utility in the workplace.As businesses worldwide accelerate their adoption of large language models (LLMs) to improve their operations, a challenge has emerged: how to accurately gauge their effectiveness. Many existing benchmarks focus on academic or general knowledge tests, often limited to English and simple question and answer formats. This has created a gap that leaves enterprises without a…

From model infrastructure to niche applications, AI is producing a new breed of founders and a new set of investor expectations. In this candid conversation on the AI Stage, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — taking place on October 27-29 in San Francisco — top VCs will share what’s catching their eye (and what’s not), how they’re thinking about defensibility in a world of AI monopolies, and what founders need to show to get that next term sheet. If you are scaling or planning to scale an AI startup, you cannot miss this session. Learn what it really takes to build…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A crackdown on cybercrime coordinated by Interpol has led to the arrests across 14 African countries of 260 people suspected in online romance and extortion scams, the organization announced Friday.The operation took place in July and August and focused on scams in which perpetrators build online romantic relationships to extract money from targets or blackmail them with explicit images, Interpol said. Altogether the scams targeted more than 1,400 victims who lost nearly $2.8 million, the international police organization said. “Cybercrime units across Africa are reporting a sharp rise in digital-enabled crimes such as sextortion and romance…