timef 06/29/2025
- Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI techcrunch.com2025-06-29 04:51:36
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.
- Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI techcrunch.com2025-06-29 02:31:06
Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.
- Week in Review: Meta’s AI recruiting blitz techcrunch.com2025-06-29 01:05:00
Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week, including Travis Kalanick's possible return, CoreWeave's CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren't happy with how the company is promoting its new F1 movie, and much more.
- Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project techcrunch.com2025-06-29 00:28:47
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks.
- Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’ techcrunch.com2025-06-29 00:00:00
Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
