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OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20263
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Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text

S1-mini is a 462 MB open-weights normalizer that sits after ASR, removing fillers and resolving self-corrections locally. The post Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text appeared first on MarkTechPost.

MarkTechPost8/21/20263
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ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in

Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20263
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AIdata centersExclusive

OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?

Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20264
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Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era
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Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era

PDFs are easy to read and hard to change. AI can now summarize a 90-page contract in seconds, but it still won't rewrite the source file cleanly. UPDF is built for that second half: direct editing, 14-format conversion, 38-language OCR, and ten AI agents shipped in version 2.5. The post Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era appeared first on MarkTechPost.

MarkTechPost8/21/20263
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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20263
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Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders

Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20263
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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs

Three ~300M drafters bring speculative decoding to LFM2.5, delivering up to 3.18x faster decoding with identical greedy output. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs appeared first on MarkTechPost.

MarkTechPost8/21/20265
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Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20263
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AIGrokxAI

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20263
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AIChatGPTpew research

A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20267
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A third of web pages published since ChatGPT launched were written by AI, study finds

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

TechCrunch AI8/21/20261
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