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The former chief executive of Character.AI, a company Disney previously served over chatbots imitating its characters, now holds the role. TechCrunch The clearest signal yet that Disney intends to build on generative character AI rather than only litigate against it.
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In a July 13 essay, Microsoft's CEO argued companies using closed frontier models pay once in tokens and again by leaking proprietary knowledge, the prompts, tool traces, and especially the corrections, that gets distilled into the provider's institutional know-how (TechCrunch...
Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets...
Three separate things happened in about 36 hours, and together they mark the week the pacing debate stopped being a debate among labs. Trump posted on Truth Social that AI safety concerns are a "HOAX" and that the only control or guardrails AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (Hig...
Zoph co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati and served as CTO, left in January 2026 with Luke Metz to return to OpenAI, was put on enterprise AI sales, and was later revealed to have been fired after five months (TechCrunch). Google to OpenAI to Thinking Machines to...
The legal theory moves up from product liability, and policy chief Chris Lehane is named personally as a defendant (TechCrunch). TechCrunch notes the underlying evidence supporting the escalated claims is unconfirmed. Naming an individual officer is the shift to watch, because...
TechCrunch's piece is backed by hiring data showing that jump by end of Q2 2026, with the largest consulting firms saying they need to 10x FDE headcount into teams of 20-100. Christian & Timbers estimates only about 2,000 engineers in the US combine sector knowledge, client gr...
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