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• The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

  TechCrunch [ai] - 23:56 Jul 06, 2026
  

  An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.

• US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom

  TechCrunch [ai] - 23:21 Jul 06, 2026
  

  SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.

  Tags: Hynix

• Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

  TechCrunch [ai] - 19:49 Jul 06, 2026
  

  "The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

• You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

  TechCrunch [ai] - 19:01 Jul 06, 2026
  

  The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.

  Tags: Siri

• Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI

  TechCrunch [ai] - 18:35 Jul 06, 2026
  

  A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

• If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

  TechCrunch [ai] - 17:04 Jul 06, 2026
  

  PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

• Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

  TechCrunch [ai] - 15:32 Jul 06, 2026
  

  Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

  Tags: Microsoft Xbox

• Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

  TechCrunch [ai] - 15:22 Jul 06, 2026
  

  In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

• Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups

  TechCrunch [ai] - 13:00 Jul 06, 2026
  

  Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.

  Tags: Station

• Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

  TechCrunch [ai] - 17:43 Jul 05, 2026
  

  These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

  Tags: Amazon Mechanical Turk

• New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

  TechCrunch [ai] - 20:55 Jul 04, 2026
  

  Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

  Tags: Independence Declaration

• Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

  TechCrunch [ai] - 18:00 Jul 04, 2026
  

  As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.

  Tags: Hollywood Midjourney

• Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

  TechCrunch [ai] - 16:32 Jul 04, 2026
  

  Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

  Tags: Claude Code Alibaba

• What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

  TechCrunch [ai] - 15:51 Jul 04, 2026
  

  Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

  Tags: Mistral

• The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

  TechCrunch [ai] - 21:20 Jul 03, 2026
  

  The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

• The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

  TechCrunch [ai] - 18:43 Jul 03, 2026
  

  We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

  Tags: Safari Chrome

• Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

  TechCrunch [ai] - 23:38 Jul 02, 2026
  

  At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.

• Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

  TechCrunch [ai] - 20:11 Jul 02, 2026
  

  Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.

  Tags: Jersey Mike

• Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

  TechCrunch [ai] - 18:44 Jul 02, 2026
  

  Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.

  Tags: Meta Pocket

• Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

  TechCrunch [ai] - 18:31 Jul 02, 2026
  

  The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

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