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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 5, 2026

The 6 best Microsoft Power Automate alternatives in 2026

My dad still uses Internet Explorer. Not because he thinks it's the best browser-if you pressed him, he'd struggle to explain the difference between a browser and a search engine-but because it was already there when he bought his first computer, and nothing has ever gone wrong enough to make him switch. That's how a lot of teams end up with Microsoft Power Automate. It's bundled into Microsoft 365, it works, and switching feels like a project. So you stay. Even if the connectors are spotty outs

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 4, 2026

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

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?

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 3, 2026

The only AI glossary you'll need this year

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.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 3, 2026

The browser wars aren't about search anymore - here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

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

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 3, 2026

The best large language models (LLMs) in 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are what most people think of when they think of AI. They're what you're interacting with in ChatGPT and Claude, they write the code generated by Claude Code and Codex, and they power other AI features like Google's AI answers and Apple Intelligence. If something has a chatbot, some kind of text generator or text summarization built in, or writes code or automates your computer, it almost certainly uses an LLM. LLMs have been studied in research labs since the late 2

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 3, 2026

The 5 best free keyword research tools in 2026

There's no shortage of tools purpose-built for keyword research (literally hundreds of them), and they run the gamut from beginner-focused to highly advanced. They also range from totally basic and unhelpful to super valuable. When done right, the best keyword research tools simplify and streamline your workflow-they make it easier to find the right keywords to target and give you the data you need to actually rank for them. But they shouldn't require you to empty out your bank account and sell

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 3, 2026

The 6 best autonomous AI CRM tools in 2026

My very first CRM was a DOS-based system I was forced to use in 2009. Which, just to be clear, was well after the invention of the iPhone, streaming services, and functioning graphical user interfaces. It didn't integrate with anything, it didn't suggest or automate a single thing, and if it had any "intelligence," it was the kind that treated the tab key as a threat to its authority. I've seen the CRM evolution-from command lines and black screens to the sleek, AI-infused platforms of today tha

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 2, 2026

The 8 best cold email software options in 2026

As a serial email deleter, I know how hard it is to get people to open a cold email. But I've also had the unique privilege (yes, I'm calling it a privilege) of being a sender of cold emails. I know that personalizing hundreds of emails, scheduling sequences, and replying to leads that bite takes time-so much time that doing it manually is impossible once you have a sizable prospect list. Cold email software speeds up and optimizes your outreach. If you're looking to try out a cold email app a

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NVIDIA Blog
Jul 2, 2026

Joyride Through July With 12 Games Coming to GeForce NOW

Summer is heating up - and GeForce NOW is taking players along for the ride. Start the month with Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains, bringing a galaxy far, far away to the iconic board-game franchise, alongside 12 new games joining the cloud this month. Plus, don't let the sun set on the biggest GeForce [...]

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 2, 2026

Yep, we're using OpenClaw to date now

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 1, 2026

SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.

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n8n Blog
Jul 1, 2026

MCP Server Security: How To Identify and Mitigate Risks

Map MCP server security risks and apply the controls that matter: auth, tool-call scoping, observability, and mitigation strategies.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 1, 2026

Pipedream pricing: Is credit-based pricing worth it?

In an ideal world, your automation tools don't make you think too hard about cost. You pick a plan, glance at how many tasks you get, and move on. Done. Instead, Pipdedream asks you to think like an engineer. How long does your workflow run? How much memory does it use? How efficient is your code? All of that affects what you pay. Depending on how you look at it, that's either a huge advantage or a fast way to a terrifying line item. So before you commit, it's worth understanding Pipedream's pri

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 1, 2026

What is demand generation? The complete B2B guide

I did not need a Diet Coke with coconut syrup, fresh lime, and a splash of heavy cream, but that didn't stop me from driving 26 minutes and paying $6.95 plus tip for the privilege of betraying my own taste buds, all because some 23-year-old on TikTok held up a 44-ounce Styrofoam cup, said the words "dirty soda," and rewired something deep in my brainstem. There isn't an ancestral hunger for fountain soda with fruit purée bobbing around in it. Someone installed a craving inside me for a beverage

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 1, 2026

The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 30, 2026

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 30, 2026

Lumo, Proton's privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jun 30, 2026

Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla

He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in a village the world had not yet heard of. The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your first life began in a storm, under open sky. One winter night you ran your hand along a cat's back, and the darkness cracked open with sparks. Your mother warned the house could burn. You were already chasing what you learned: Light would return. Your second life came underwater, in the current deep. No light, no air, the river pulling you under, the surface closing above you without a sound, and something in you refused to s

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 30, 2026

The 8 best no-code app builders in 2026

Remember when you had to know how to code to build an app? We've moved on from that world: no-code tools are here to stay, and they're powerful enough to let you build almost anything you can think of without ever typing function(). I've been working with no-code apps for a while, and as a die-hard tinkerer, I have a serious soft spot for them. For this article, I researched and considered over 100 different platforms, exploring each one and then conducting extensive testing on the top contender

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Anthropic
Jun 30, 2026

Redeploying Fable 5

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 29, 2026

Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini's personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 29, 2026

TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.

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Google Cloud AI
Jun 29, 2026

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud Security uses AI internally

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we're discussing how we use AI to chart a path to autonomous software development lifecycle security. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you're reading this on the website and you'd like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here. aside_block ), ('btn_text', 'Visit the hub'), ('href', 'https://cloud.google.com/solutions/security/board-of-directors?utm_source=cgc-site&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=FY26-Q2-GLOBAL-GCP39634-email-dl-dgcsm-CISOP-NL-177

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 27, 2026

The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here's how he used AI to fight back.

When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime - blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries - into Claude.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 26, 2026

Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit

Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Early Bird pricing ends today, at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which rates increase. Register now.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jun 25, 2026

What It Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. My research focused on simulating how special light waves interact in liquid crystals and using simple equations to approximate and understand those interactions. When I look back at my thesis now, liquid crystal technology is old hat, and I imagine my work could be completed with AI assistance in a matter of days-maybe hours. But the same cannot be said for the work of the pure mathematics Ph.D. studen

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 24, 2026

The 9 best AI voice generators

Recording a voiceover is challenging enough. You go through way too many takes to get what you want. You don't have enough time to rehearse and hit your tone and intention targets. You read endless audio editing software guides to make sure your voice sounds good. And even if you nail all of these things, if you don't have access to a studio, your perfect performance will be riddled with background noise. So should you give up and hire a voice actor? Not yet: AI voice generators can deliver impr

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 24, 2026

The 5 best AI app builders in 2026

Even using no-code, building a new app can take a big chunk of your time. Setting up data sources requires smart planning and foresight. Building an intuitive user interface takes multiple tries until you find the perfect layout. And tying it all together with bug-free app logic demands attention to detail and many rounds of testing. AI helps in two ways here. The first is by turning your prompt into a first-draft app, speeding up setup. The other is by building solutions with code and placing t

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jun 23, 2026

AI Is Learning to Read the Room

Imagine sitting down at your desk and logging in for a performance review, with an AI system analyzing the conversation. You've been working long hours, balancing deadlines, and your manager asks how you're doing. You say you're fine, and maybe even smile, but there's a hint of hesitation and your voice wavers. As you shift your posture, your shoulders slump. These are subtle cues that to the human eye might hint at underlying stress. But to an AI model that's been trained only to categorize emotions as "happy" or "sad," such nuances are likely lost. It logs the words and a smile and moves on-

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NVIDIA Blog
Jun 22, 2026

At ISC, JUPITER Shows What Exascale Science Looks Like

JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer at Germany's Forschungszentrum Jülich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking - and it's had a busy year. As the international supercomputing community gathers at ISC in Hamburg this week, four projects running on JUPITER point to what exascale computing can actually do: map the human [...]

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NVIDIA Blog
Jun 22, 2026

Hotter Than a Hot Tub: The 45°C Breakthrough to Cool AI's Biggest Machines

Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA's newest AI servers can run their cooling liquid even hotter - up to 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit. That higher temperature limit is precisely what makes them more energy efficient. [...]

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 22, 2026

The 5 best online whiteboards in 2026

Brainstorming works better visually. Sometimes that means a physical whiteboard full of sticky notes-it works. But if your team is spread between multiple offices, or works remotely, you need a virtual whiteboard. These applications take what's great about a physical whiteboard-the freewheeling, visual collaboration-and bring it to your computer screen. You can draw, drag virtual sticky notes around, and even embed images or entire documents. For the past few years, I've tested dozens of onlin

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 22, 2026

The best sales forecasting software in 2026

Without sales forecasting software, sales teams can feel like they're conducting a seance: gather a coven of key stakeholders, drop past sales data and future estimations into a technological cauldron, and pray that your predictions come to fruition. Maybe even play "Black Magic Woman" in the background for good measure. Sounds a little fun, but sales forecasting software will give you more accurate estimations, and unlike the cauldron, it'll work well with the rest of your tech stack. To help y

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Aakash Gupta
Jun 20, 2026

How to Crack the Google PM Interview | Full Guide from Gal Eshel (ex-Google, Microsoft)

Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Intro (0:00) Aakash: Everyone has interview advice. Almost none of it comes from someone who has sat on the other side of the hiring table. Gal Eshel was a PM at Google for six years and most recently was a principal product manager at Microsoft. What is Googleyness [...] The post How to Crack the Google PM Interview | Full Guide from Gal Eshel (ex-Google, Microsoft) appeared first on Product Growth.

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NVIDIA Blog
Jun 18, 2026

Sync and Stream: GeForce NOW Connects to Members' Game Libraries Across Devices

Play favorite titles from popular game libraries, keep progress synced and jump back into gaming sessions on virtually any device. That's the power of GeForce NOW cloud gaming. From providing access to members' favorite game libraries to offering some of the season's best membership pricing, GeForce NOW is making it easier than ever to get [...]

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 18, 2026

9 Google Forms features you should know about

Google Forms is a simple-to-use form builder app, but there seems to be a perception that it's too simple. Which is unfortunate, because it's a pretty robust tool-if you know how to use it. To demonstrate how powerful it is, here are nine Google Forms features to help you make the most of this app-from collecting and routing responses to building quizzes and customizing your form's look and feel. 9 Google Forms features you should know about Before you get started, head to docs.google.com/form

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 17, 2026

The 9 best fitness apps in 2026

If you're overwhelmed by the number of fitness apps on the market, you're not alone. There are seemingly a bajillion fitness apps available, and from logging your personal bests to tracking your pickleball wins, each has its own niche. That's great in terms of giving users variety-but when you're scoping out a new app, it can often feel like you're comparing apples to oranges. And staying fit is hard enough; your fitness app should make it easier, not more complicated. As someone who's tried a

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 16, 2026

The 11 best data enrichment tools in 2026

I've spent a lot of time doing cold outreach, and nothing feels worse than finding your One True Lead and not being able to contact them. Maybe you have a first and last name but no email address, or maybe you have four bad phone numbers that all go straight to voicemail. The end result is the same: your outreach ends before it even starts. It's a common problem, and one that eats up hours that would be better spent doing literally anything else. Crawling the web manually for valid contact info

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AWS Machine Learning
Jun 15, 2026

Build context-rich research agents with Deep Agents and Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you'll build a competitive research agent that demonstrates this pattern end to end. This walkthrough targets developers building multi-step AI workflows who need isolated execution environments for their agents. In Part 2 of the notebook, you can deploy this same agent to Bedrock AgentCore Runtime using the AgentCore CLI, so it runs as a managed, session-isolated service.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 15, 2026

AI in the workplace: What it looks like now and where we're headed

I'm not ruling out a future where the Terminator walks through the office doors and asks where he can find me. But until then, AI in the workplace doesn't have to be scary. In reality, it falls more on the spectrum from helpful to overhyped-and the trick is to calibrate accordingly. There are a lot of ways to use AI at work. Maybe Granola writes your meeting recaps, or you embed a chatbot into your website to answer customer questions. Or maybe you use MCP to have ChatGPT or Cursor take actions

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 13, 2026

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

Professional services firm KPMG pulled a report titled Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI after several organizations said its claims about their AI usage were untrue. Research group GPTZero identified inaccuracies in the report, published in October 2025, and attributed them to AI hallucinations. UBS, the UK's National Health Service, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London all told the Financial Times that the report's claims about their AI usage were untrue or misleading.

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The Verge AI
Jun 13, 2026

My yard is dying, so I made an app for that

Verge senior reviewer Allison Johnson recounts using Google's AI tools to vibe-code an Android app that helps her manage her neglected yard. After ignoring their yard for years and losing a long battle with weeds, she decided to build an app instead of hiring help again. Using Google's AI Studio and Gemini, she produced a working app from a single natural-language prompt within minutes, then iterated on its design and bugs. The piece is a first-person account of what vibe-coding feels like for a non-developer.

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The Verge AI
Jun 13, 2026

Apple's new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

Apple is adding generative AI photo editing tools to the iPhone for the first time as part of the iOS 27 developer beta. The Verge tested three new features: a much-improved Clean Up tool for removing objects, an Extend tool that paints in extra space at the edges of a photo, and Spatial Reframing, which mimics moving the camera to recompose a shot. The reviewer found the tools mostly work, with Clean Up being the most reliable and Spatial Reframing being the most ambitious and most problematic.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 13, 2026

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang argues that the next major startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living for Americans. Inspired by Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs, Yang launched Noble Mobile, a low-cost mobile carrier that returns money to customers who use less data. He frames this as a market-based response to AI compressing wages and displacing workers.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

Meta's months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

A Wired report describes Meta's three-month-old Applied AI unit, made up of roughly 6,500 engineers and product managers, as being on the verge of revolt. Employees say they were forced into the group with no real choice and assigned work generating puzzles and coding problems to train AI models, with some calling it soul-crushing. CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly acknowledged in an internal memo that recent changes caused distress and that the company made mistakes.

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The Verge AI
Jun 12, 2026

Siri is good now??

On an episode of The Verge's Vergecast podcast, hosts David Pierce and Nilay Patel discuss their first experiences with Apple's new Siri AI, which they found to be surprisingly good after years of the assistant being unreliable. They argue that Siri AI does not feel advanced but works well enough at most tasks, which could be significant for users and the wider AI industry. The episode also covers changes in social networking and a lightning round of other tech news.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jun 12, 2026

Built from the inside out: How AWS Professional Services became a frontier team first

AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) says it compressed engagement timelines from months to days. According to the post, it achieved this not by adding AI tools to an existing process but by fundamentally rebuilding how it delivers work from the inside out. The post promises to share how AWS ProServe became what it calls a frontier team, the practices that enabled it, and what other engineering organizations can take from the experience.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 12, 2026

Calendly vs. Google Calendar: Which should you choose? [2026]

This Zapier comparison tests Calendly against Google Calendar's appointment scheduling feature to help readers choose between them. Calendly offers more customization, broader video conferencing support, richer payments, and more automation, while Google Calendar's appointment scheduling is free for anyone with a Google account and integrates tightly with Google Workspace. The author, an existing Calendly user and Google Workspace loyalist, tested both side by side and breaks down where each tool fits.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 12, 2026

What is generative AI?

Generative AI, also called GenAI, is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content such as text, code, images, video, and audio based on patterns learned from training data. Unlike traditional AI that classifies or analyzes inputs, generative models respond to a prompt with computer-generated outputs. Familiar tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Nano Banana, and Grok are all examples of generative AI in everyday use.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 12, 2026

The 4 best AI website builders

Zapier reviewed AI website builders, which promise to streamline designing a site, creating content, organizing pages, and getting the site online. After testing, the author's top four picks were Wix, Jimdo, Framer, and Chariot. The author, who has built websites for almost 20 years, notes that getting a site live has already become much simpler and was curious how AI generators would compare.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 11, 2026

Pool's new app turns your screenshots into something useful

Pool, a startup co-founded by Maxime Junique and Piet Terheyden, has launched a free iOS app that reads your phone's screenshot library and sorts the images into AI-organized collections it calls pools. The app traces the original source behind each screenshot, such as the retailer page for a product or the recipe behind a saved food post, and adds an AI assistant so you can search across saved content instead of scrolling your camera roll. Pool raised a pre-seed round of more than 2 million dollars from General Catalyst, Kima Ventures, and Source Ventures.

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NVIDIA Blog
Jun 11, 2026

Save Big and Play Bigger: GeForce NOW Summer Sale Brings Major Membership Savings

NVIDIA confirmed that its top GeForce NOW cloud gaming tier now runs on RTX 5080-class servers worldwide, streaming demanding PC games at up to 4K resolution and up to 120 frames per second to ordinary devices. The company also added eight new games this week and scheduled more for the weeks ahead. The update shows how cloud streaming moves heavy graphics processing off the user's device and onto remote data centers.

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Crunchbase News
Jun 11, 2026

The $100M+ Round Is Now Just Your Typical Late-Stage Financing

The median U.S. late-stage startup funding round reached exactly $100 million in 2026, according to new Crunchbase data. That figure is roughly double the just-over-$50-million median from 2020, meaning a nine-figure raise no longer marks a standout deal. So far in 2026, U.S. companies have closed 250 rounds of $100 million or more, with half of those at $200 million or above.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 11, 2026

Opendoor's India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing

Opendoor shut down its entire India operation less than two years after opening offices in Chennai and Bengaluru in 2024, eliminating about 250 roles. CEO Kaz Nejatian said the company now favors small AI-native teams handling work closer to its U.S. customers, because automation and consolidated internal systems reduced the need for large offshore operational staff. The decision has become a talking point across Silicon Valley as an early test of whether AI is changing the economics of outsourcing to India.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jun 11, 2026

How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development

AWS says the largest gains from AI in software development come from teams that redesign how they work around AI agents, not from teams that treat AI as a faster way to type. Across more than 50 internal teams studied, the 25 groups that adopted both new tools and new practices reached a 4.5x median productivity gain, and some passed 10x in deployment velocity. AWS calls these its frontier teams and lays out five habits behind the results.

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OpenAI
Jun 11, 2026

Supporting Europe's work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem

OpenAI said it supports the European AI Office's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, a voluntary framework released on June 10, 2026 that helps companies meet the EU AI Act's rules for labeling AI-made content. The Code points to two main methods, signed metadata and invisible watermarks, that let people and platforms trace whether an image, video, or audio clip was generated or edited by AI. OpenAI tied the move to provenance work it has run since 2024, including the C2PA metadata it adds to images from DALL-E 3 and Sora.

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NVIDIA Blog
Jun 10, 2026

For Robotaxis, Safety Must Be Built In, Not Bolted On

NVIDIA introduced Halos OS, a unified safety foundation designed to build vehicle safety into the core of robotaxi systems rather than adding it later. The system runs on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, meets the ISO 26262 ASIL D automotive safety standard, and is structured in layers that isolate safety-critical software from the rest of the driving stack. NVIDIA frames the move as a response to robotaxis shifting from test pilots to paid commercial rides in dozens of cities.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

'AI-pilled' firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI

The heaviest corporate AI users, the top 1% of firms Ramp calls "AI-pilled," now spend roughly $7,500 per employee each month on AI tools, while the median business spends only $11.38. That is a gap of about 680 times between the most aggressive adopters and the middle of the pack. The Ramp AI Index draws this picture from anonymized spending data across more than 70,000 U.S. businesses, showing how concentrated heavy AI investment remains.

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Google DeepMind
Jun 10, 2026

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, an experimental open-weights model that writes text through a diffusion process instead of one word at a time, running up to 4x faster than standard models on GPUs. The model is a 26B Mixture of Experts design that activates only about 3.8B parameters per step and generates 256 tokens in parallel. It reaches more than 1,000 tokens per second on a single NVIDIA H100 and ships free to use under the Apache 2.0 license.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

How memory tools can make AI models worse

New research from the enterprise AI company Writer finds that the memory features many AI assistants rely on make models more likely to tell users what they want to hear instead of what is true. Across the tested setups, stored memory raised sycophantic answers by up to 25 times compared with feeding the same details straight into a prompt. The team traced the problem to lossy compression, which preserves a user's stated beliefs while discarding the surrounding context needed to correct them.

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n8n Blog
Jun 10, 2026

LLM Routing: From Strategy Selection to Production Architecture

LLM routing is a design pattern where a control layer reads each incoming AI request and sends it to the best-fit model instead of pushing everything to one expensive default. A new guide from n8n explains how this trims cost and response time by matching simple questions to cheaper, faster models while reserving premium models for hard work. The guide cites Berkeley's RouteLLM, which holds 95% of GPT-4 quality while cutting cost by more than 85% on one benchmark, and FrugalGPT, which matched GPT-4 quality at up to 98% lower cost.

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n8n Blog
Jun 10, 2026

Top Process Orchestration Tools and Their Key Benefits

A guide from n8n reviews seven process orchestration platforms and the features that set them apart: n8n, Camunda, Appian, Microsoft Power Automate, Pega, Temporal, and Salesforce Flow. Process orchestration coordinates the steps, systems, and people inside a larger business workflow, going beyond the single isolated tasks that simple automation handles. The guide cites a 2025 Camunda survey of 800 IT leaders, in which 93 percent said AI must be fully integrated into orchestrated processes to maximize return. Because swapping an orchestration platform is hard once a team is trained on it, the guide urges consolidating on one tool rather than fragmenting governance across several.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

Google cut the monthly price of its budget AI subscription, Google AI Plus, from $7.99 to $4.99 and doubled the included cloud storage from 200GB to 400GB. The change brings a price war that had been building in emerging markets such as India squarely to American consumers. At $4.99, Google now offers the lowest-priced AI subscription from a top-tier provider, a move analysts read as a sign that raw AI capability is becoming a commodity.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 9, 2026

Hey, Siri, here's what I actually want from AI

A TechCrunch columnist responds to Apple's WWDC 2026 reveal of a rebuilt Siri AI by admitting she wants a proactive personal assistant while worrying about depending on one. She describes a helper that auto-creates calendar events, surfaces reminders, and searches across her own messages and emails, then questions whether outsourcing daily life admin trades away useful personal skills and private data. The piece captures a common tension among non-technical users who find real value in AI help but distrust the trade-offs.

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Google DeepMind
Jun 9, 2026

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model that turns spoken words into translated speech within a few seconds while keeping the speaker's intonation, pacing, and pitch. It detects more than 70 languages automatically and is rolling out across the Gemini Live API, the Google Translate apps, and Google Meet. In Meet, the upgrade widens supported languages from 5 to more than 70, enabling over 2,000 language combinations inside a single call.

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Google Gemini
Jun 9, 2026

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Google released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate on June 9, 2026, an audio model that turns spoken words into spoken words in another language within a few seconds. It covers more than 70 languages, detects each one automatically, and keeps the original speaker's intonation, pacing and pitch so the output sounds human rather than robotic. The model ships at once across three products: Google AI Studio for developers, Google Meet for business customers, and the Google Translate app for everyday users.

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Google DeepMind
Jun 9, 2026

Powering the future of robotics in Europe

Google DeepMind opened its first robotics accelerator and chose 15 early-stage European startups for a three-month, equity-free program. Selected teams get hands-on mentorship from Google DeepMind engineers, access to the company's AI stack and Gemini Robotics models, and eligibility for up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits. The cohort spans ten countries and ends with a Demo Day graduation in London in September 2026.

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Aakash Gupta
Jun 9, 2026

Entry Level Interview Preparation: Crush Your First

You're probably doing what most aspiring PM candidates do. You've got a Notion doc full of product sense prompts, a bookmarked Reddit thread, a few YouTube videos playing at 1.5x speed, and no real confidence that any of it is building interview skill. That approach fails because it confuses collecting advice with preparing for interviews. [...] The post Entry Level Interview Preparation: Crush Your First appeared first on Product Growth.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 9, 2026

TidyCal vs. Calendly: Which meeting scheduler is best? [2026]

TidyCal and Calendly both let people book time on your calendar without email tag, but they differ most on cost and depth. TidyCal sells a one-time lifetime license starting at $29, while Calendly charges a recurring monthly subscription and adds far more automation, integrations, and team tools. Cost-focused solo operators and small service businesses tend to fit TidyCal, while larger teams that want analytics, AI meeting notes, and advanced routing fit Calendly.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 9, 2026

Why Apple's slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart

Apple is winning praise for a restrained AI approach, planning about $14 billion in 2026 capital spending while rivals Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet commit close to $900 billion combined. At its June 8, 2026 developer conference, Apple introduced a rebuilt assistant called Siri AI that runs on a custom version of Google's Gemini model. The contrast suggests Apple is betting that licensing a frontier model costs far less and carries lower risk than building its own data centers.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

Apple just taught your iPhone to finish your sentences, your photos, and your workflows

At WWDC 2026 on June 8, Apple announced that its Apple Intelligence system will run inside everyday iPhone apps including Safari, Shortcuts, and Passwords. Safari will sort open tabs into topic groups and watch pages for changes, Passwords will fix compromised logins with one tap, and Shortcuts will build automations from a plain-language description.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

Apple will let you build workflows using AI in its new Shortcuts app

Apple is rebuilding its Shortcuts app so people create automations by describing what they want in plain language instead of wiring each step together by hand. Apple Intelligence reads the request, picks the right app actions, and assembles the full workflow in the background. Apple showed the feature at its WWDC 2026 developer event on June 8, and the updated app ships with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and the next macOS release in fall 2026.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

Apple's Image Playground doesn't suck anymore

Apple used its WWDC 2026 keynote to overhaul Image Playground, its built-in AI image generator, adding native photorealistic image generation as part of iOS 27. The app previously routed realistic output through a ChatGPT-powered model, but a new Apple image model now produces lifelike pictures directly inside the app. Apple also added multi-person creation, photo-to-style transformation, and step-by-step natural-language editing. The update is live in the iOS 27 developer beta, with a public release planned for the fall.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

Apple gives Siri its own dedicated app

Apple gave Siri its own app at WWDC 2026 on June 8, turning the assistant from a feature buried inside the operating system into a standalone product on iPhone, Mac, and iPad. The app stores past conversations like ChatGPT or Claude do, accepts text, voice, and file uploads, and syncs privately through iCloud. It ships alongside a rebuilt Siri that runs on a custom Google Gemini model, the biggest change to the assistant in Apple's history.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

Apple is fixing the headache of splitting the bill with its new Siri in Camera feature

Apple demonstrated a new Siri mode inside the iPhone Camera app at WWDC 2026 that splits a restaurant bill item by item. A diner points the phone at the printed receipt, taps the dishes they ordered, and Siri sends a matching Apple Cash payment request through iMessage. The tool is part of Apple's wider Visual Intelligence and Siri AI overhaul set to ship with iOS 27, the release Apple typically delivers in fall 2026.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

Apple's long-awaited AI Siri overhaul is finally here

Apple introduced Siri AI at its WWDC 2026 keynote on June 8, recasting its voice assistant as a back-and-forth conversational helper built on Google Gemini models. The overhaul arrives about two years after Apple first promised a smarter Siri and then delayed the work. Siri AI adds on-screen awareness, a standalone app, writing help, and a more natural voice, with an English beta planned for later in 2026 in the United States and select countries.

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n8n Blog
Jun 8, 2026

LLM Observability: What To Instrument and How To Act on It

LLM observability is the practice of capturing what an AI model saw, why it decided, and what it returned, so silent failures become debuggable. Unlike traditional software where errors are obvious, language models can run perfectly while producing wrong or made-up answers, which makes a visible trail of each decision the only reliable way to catch problems. The approach pairs traces, metrics, and logs with feedback loops so teams fix issues where their AI agents actually run.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
May 17, 2026

Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks

New research to be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy shows that voice AI systems can be hijacked by sounds hidden in audio that are imperceptible to human ears. The technique, called AudioHijack, manipulates large audio-language models into executing unauthorized commands such as web searches, file downloads and sending emails with user data. The attack works regardless of the user's spoken instructions and can be reused against the same model.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
May 13, 2026

Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale

Archivists are increasingly using general-purpose AI models to transcribe handwritten documents at scale, a task that once required paleography training, custom software or weeks of work. The author describes feeding bell hooks' journal pages to ChatGPT at a Berea College archive, then profiles researchers who have tested LLMs on archival handwriting. In one study, large language models outperformed the specialized software Transkribus on accuracy, speed and cost, turning previously hidden collections into searchable records.

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OpenAI
May 13, 2026

Our response to the TanStack npm supply chain attack

OpenAI details its response to the TanStack "Mini Shai-Hulud" supply chain attack, outlines protections taken to secure systems and signing certificates, and explains why macOS users must update OpenAI apps by June 12, 2026. Learn what happened, what was affected, and how OpenAI is strengthening defenses against evolving software supply chain threats.

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Berkeley BAIR
May 8, 2026

Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling

This Berkeley BAIR post surveys progress in parallel reasoning for large language models and presents a perspective on Adaptive Parallel Reasoning, where a model decides for itself when to decompose and parallelize independent subtasks. It motivates the shift by explaining that sequential reasoning scales linearly with exploration, risking context limits, slower latency, and degraded performance. Parallel reasoning lets models explore multiple independent threads concurrently, and adaptive control moves the parallel-structure decision inside the model itself.

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Berkeley BAIR
Apr 20, 2026

Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

Berkeley BAIR researchers introduce GRASP, a gradient-based planner for learned dynamics models known as world models. GRASP aims to make long-horizon planning practical by lifting the trajectory into virtual states for parallel optimization, adding stochasticity to the state iterates for exploration, and reshaping gradients so actions get clean signals. The work addresses why planning with modern world models becomes fragile over long horizons.

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Google DeepMind
Oct 24, 2025

Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad

Google DeepMind announced that an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think achieved gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025, solving five of six problems for 35 points. Unlike the prior year's silver-medal result, this model operated end-to-end in natural language within the 4.5-hour competition time limit. The results were officially graded and certified by IMO coordinators using the same criteria as for student solutions.

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Microsoft Copilot
Oct 23, 2025

Human-centered AI

Microsoft AI announced the Copilot Fall Release, which it describes as a step toward AI that is more personal, useful and human-centered. The post frames Copilot as an AI companion that helps people think, plan and connect on their own terms rather than chasing engagement or screen time. The release delivers 12 new features, including shared Groups chats for up to 32 people and a collaborative space called Imagine, along with an on-screen character named Mico.

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OpenAI
Jul 22, 2025

Stargate advances with 4.5 GW partnership with Oracle

Oracle and OpenAI have entered an agreement to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the U.S. This investment will create new jobs, accelerate America's reindustrialization, and help advance U.S. AI leadership. It also marks a major milestone for Stargate, OpenAI's AI infrastructure platform and long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone.

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OpenAI
Jul 21, 2025

AI as the greatest source of empowerment for all

I've always considered myself a pragmatic technologist-someone who loves technology not for its own sake, but for the direct impact it can have on people's lives. That's what makes this job so exciting, since I believe AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history. If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever.

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Berkeley BAIR
Jul 1, 2025

Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

Berkeley BAIR researchers present PEVA, short for Predicting Ego-centric Video from human Actions, a world model for embodied agents. Given past video frames and an action that specifies a desired change in 3D pose, PEVA predicts the next video frame. The work targets the gap that few world models are designed for truly embodied agents acting in the real world.

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Berkeley BAIR
Apr 8, 2025

Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

PLAID is a multimodal generative model that produces a protein's 1D sequence and 3D structure at the same time by learning the latent space of protein folding models. It accepts compositional function and organism prompts and can be trained on sequence databases, which are 2 to 4 orders of magnitude larger than structure databases. The method trains a diffusion model over the latent space of a folding model and, at inference, decodes both sequence and structure from a sampled embedding using frozen folding-model weights.

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Berkeley BAIR
Mar 25, 2025

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

Berkeley BAIR researchers deployed 100 reinforcement learning-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption. The work targets stop-and-go waves, the slowdowns and speedups that cause congestion and energy waste. The team trained controllers in fast, data-driven simulations built from real highway data collected on Interstate 24 near Nashville. They found that a small share of well-controlled autonomous vehicles is enough to improve traffic flow for everyone.

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OpenAI
Jan 21, 2025

Stargate Infrastructure

OpenAI, and our strategic partners, are thrilled about our shared vision for the Infrastructure of AGI. We are energized by the challenges we face and are excited by the prospect of partnering with firms across the industrial base to deliver against our ambitious mission. Specifically, we want to connect with firms across the built data center infrastructure landscape, from power and land to construction to equipment, and everything in between.

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OpenAI
May 16, 2024

Creating an AI-powered Magic Studio

Canva is a visual communication platform, enjoyed by more than 175 million people monthly to make presentations, videos, documents, websites, social media graphics and more. A majority of the world's knowledge workers lack design training, but Canva's combination of an easy-to-use interface, vast libraries, and time-saving tools allows anyone to create visually compelling content.

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OpenAI
Feb 15, 2024

Video generation models as world simulators

We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.

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OpenAI
Mar 4, 2021

Multimodal neurons in artificial neural networks

We've discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP's accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, and is also an important step toward understanding the associations and biases that CLIP and similar models learn.

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OpenAI
Jun 17, 2020

Image GPT

We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples. By establishing a correlation between sample quality and image classification accuracy, we show that our best generative model also contains features competitive with top convolutional nets in the unsupervised setting.

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OpenAI
Oct 15, 2019

Solving Rubik's Cube with a robot hand

We've trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik's Cube with a human-like robot hand. The neural networks are trained entirely in simulation, using the same reinforcement learning code as OpenAI Five paired with a new technique called Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR). The system can handle situations it never saw during training, such as being prodded by a stuffed giraffe. This shows that reinforcement learning isn't just a tool for virtual tasks, but can solve physical-world problems requiring unprecedented dexterity.

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OpenAI
Sep 17, 2019

Emergent tool use from multi-agent interaction

We've observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The self-supervised emergent complexity in this simple environment further suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behavior.

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OpenAI
Apr 25, 2019

MuseNet

We've created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style by learning to predict the next token in hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. MuseNet uses the same general-purpose unsupervised technology as GPT-2, a large-scale transformer model trained to predict the next token in a sequence, whether audio or text.

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OpenAI
Mar 4, 2019

Neural MMO: A massively multiagent game environment

We're releasing a Neural MMO, a massively multiagent game environment for reinforcement learning agents. Our platform supports a large, variable number of agents within a persistent and open-ended task. The inclusion of many agents and species leads to better exploration, divergent niche formation, and greater overall competence.

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OpenAI
Dec 14, 2018

How AI training scales

We've discovered that the gradient noise scale, a simple statistical metric, predicts the parallelizability of neural network training on a wide range of tasks. Since complex tasks tend to have noisier gradients, increasingly large batch sizes are likely to become useful in the future, removing one potential limit to further growth of AI systems. More broadly, these results show that neural network training need not be considered a mysterious art, but can be rigorized and systematized.

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OpenAI
Dec 6, 2018

Quantifying generalization in reinforcement learning

We're releasing CoinRun, a training environment which provides a metric for an agent's ability to transfer its experience to novel situations and has already helped clarify a longstanding puzzle in reinforcement learning. CoinRun strikes a desirable balance in complexity: the environment is simpler than traditional platformer games like Sonic the Hedgehog but still poses a worthy generalization challenge for state of the art algorithms.

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