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New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's decision (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fu…

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters | TechCrunch
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch
Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/notebooklm-ad…

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others | TechCrunch
Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM.

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model family, and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mistral-releases-voxtr…

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model | TechCrunch
French startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with Voxtral, its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. 

In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend further research into chain-of-thought monitorability for AI safety (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-i…

Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI's 'thoughts' | TechCrunch
Research leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are urging tech companies and research groups to monitor AI's "thoughts."

Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/ai-coding-tools-a…

AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal | TechCrunch
For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe-coding takes off, a subtle shift has changed how AI systems are interacting with software. Instead of working on code, they’re increasingly interacting directly with the shell of whatever system they’re installed in. It’s a significant change in how AI-powered software development happens – and despite the …

Bedrock Ocean, which has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle to map the ocean floor using sonar and magnetic sensors, raised a $25M Series A-2 (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/bedrock-ocean-dredges-u…

Exclusive: Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots | TechCrunch
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.

The DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking over 10 telcos and to extortion; in February, he admitted hacking AT&T and Verizon (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/us-a

US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion | TechCrunch
Cameron Wagenius had already pleaded guilty to other charges earlier this year.

Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/aspora-ge…

Aspora gets $50M from Sequoia to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora | TechCrunch
Aspora (formerly Vance) is trying to build a verticalized financial experience for the Indian diaspora by keeping convenience at the center.

Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3,300% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/prime-day…

Prime Day event drove over $24B in U.S. e-commerce sales, gen AI traffic was up 3,300% | TechCrunch
Amazon's Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase in retail traffic driven by