Kyle Wiggers, Author at TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com Startup and Technology News Thu, 22 May 2025 22:17:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cropped-cropped-favicon-gradient.png?w=32 Kyle Wiggers, Author at TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com 32 32 Anthropic’s latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emoji https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-latest-flagship-ai-sure-seems-to-love-using-the-cyclone-emoji/ Thu, 22 May 2025 20:12:15 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3011122 A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a-safety-institute-advised-against-releasing-an-early-version-of-anthropics-claude-opus-4-ai-model/ Thu, 22 May 2025 18:32:47 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010952 Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-claude-4-ai-models-can-reason-over-many-steps/ Thu, 22 May 2025 16:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010593 Vercel debuts an AI model optimized for web development https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/vercel-debuts-an-ai-model-optimized-for-web-development/ Thu, 22 May 2025 15:40:21 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010900 OpenAI teams up with Cisco, Oracle to build UAE data center https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/openai-teams-up-with-cisco-oracle-to-build-uae-data-center/ Thu, 22 May 2025 14:40:51 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010892 LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/lm-arena-the-organization-behind-popular-ai-leaderboards-lands-100m/ Wed, 21 May 2025 18:52:14 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010471 Jony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/jony-ive-to-lead-openais-design-work-following-6-5b-acquisition-of-his-company/ Wed, 21 May 2025 17:59:35 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010377 Meta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI models https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/meta-launches-program-to-encourage-startups-to-use-its-llama-ai-models/ Wed, 21 May 2025 17:23:51 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010356 Google is bringing ads to AI Mode https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/google-is-bringing-ads-to-ai-mode/ Wed, 21 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010181 Mistral’s new Devstral AI model was designed for coding https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/mistrals-new-devstral-model-was-designed-for-coding/ Wed, 21 May 2025 14:37:09 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3010182 The latest Google Gemma AI model can run on phones https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/the-newest-google-gemma-ai-model-can-run-on-phones/ Tue, 20 May 2025 21:40:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3009196 Amanda Scales, a Musk hire who helped lead DOGE, has returned to xAI https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/amanda-scales-a-musk-hire-who-helped-lead-doge-has-returned-to-xai/ Tue, 20 May 2025 21:18:37 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3009924 Google I/O 2025: Everything announced at this year’s developer conference https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-i-o-2025-everything-announced-at-this-years-developer-conference/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:52:37 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3005411 Veo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with them https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/googles-veo-3-can-generate-videos-and-soundtracks-to-go-along-with-them/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3008867 Google’s 3D teleconferencing platform, now called Beam, will ship later in 2025 https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/googles-3d-teleconferencing-platform-now-called-beam-will-ship-later-in-2025/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3008936 Google AI Ultra: You’ll have to pay $249.99 per month for Google’s best AI https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-ai-ultra-youll-have-to-pay-249-99-per-month-for-googles-best-ai/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3008966 ‘Deep Think’ boosts the performance of Google’s flagship Google Gemini AI model https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/deep-think-boosts-the-performance-of-googles-flagship-google-gemini-ai-model/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3009129 Google’s new SynthID Detector can help spot AI slop https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/googles-new-synthid-detector-can-help-spot-ai-slop/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3009238 Imagen 4 is Google’s newest AI image generator https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/imagen-4-is-googles-newest-ai-image-generator/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3009288 Google brings a music-generating AI model to its API with Lyria RealTime https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-brings-a-music-generating-ai-model-to-its-api-with-lyria-realtime/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3009298