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Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. Pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, get investor access, win $100K. Nominate and apply here.

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. Pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, get investor access, win $100K. Nominate and apply here.

French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Top 10: AI Tools for Legal Teams

In our latest Top 10, we explore the leading AI-powered tools being adopted by legal teams, including Spellbook, DoNotPay, Luminance and more

Google's latest AI push risks upsetting an important group

Google unveils AI updates at I/O, including AI Mode in Search and Spark assistant, amid growing Gen Z opposition to AI technology.

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

Access to TV OS’s source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.

Google Flow Music is getting a dedicated mobile app.

It’s already available on iOS, and coming to Android soon. Google is also adding granular editing tools for changing portions of an AI-generated song, tweaking beat drops, or rewriting lyrics. It’s also adding the ability to generate “covers” and music videos, so you can countrify that punk song you prompted.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters

A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will arrive anyway.

If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can

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Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

Figma's new AI assistant will be first available on Figma Design

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah

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Google's Big Ask

Yesterday Emma Roth wrote that Google’s pitch for AI at I/O demands both your trust and your personal data. Going by the comment section, that’s a trade many of you are no longer willing to make.