Pocket FM is equipping its writers with CoPilot, an AI-powered assistant that suggests dramatic endings, restructures episodes into dialogue, analyzes narrative beats, and even flags plot consistency in real time. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/poc… Source: TechCrunch

Microsoft releases PoML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language)—a new XML/JSON-based standard for structuring, versioning, and sharing prompt workflows across models and tools. 📌 Full story: marktechpost.com/2025/08/13/mic… Source: MarkTechPost

Co-founder and Chief of Product at xAI, Lily Lim, departs after less than a year—citing personal reasons and marking another key exit from Elon Musk’s AI venture. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-… Source: TechCrunch

Cohere hires Joëlle Pineau as its new Chief AI Officer. A former Meta FAIR head and McGill professor, she's set to guide AI strategy across research, product, and policy teams. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/coh… Source: TechCrunch

Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, will headline the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (Oct 27–29), revealing how he’s steered Box through two decades of tech cycles via reinvention. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/ins… Source: TechCrunch

Google launches Flight Deals within Google Flights—an AI-powered tool that interprets natural-language travel queries to surface the best fare deals. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/goo… Source: TechCrunch

Multiverse releases two of the smallest high-performing AI models ever—“SuperFly” (94M params) and “ChickBrain” (3.2B params)—built to run locally on devices like iPhones and MacBooks. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/buz… Source: TechCrunch

Lovable projects hitting $1B in ARR within the next 12 months, fueled by rapid enterprise adoption of its “AI copilot” for customer support. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/lov… Source: TechCrunch

Everything you need to know about ChatGPT: its history, how it works, key features, pricing, safety tools—and what’s next in the evolution of OpenAI’s flagship chatbot. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/cha… Source: TechCrunch

Meta unveils DINOv3, a 7B-parameter self-supervised vision model trained on 1.7B unlabeled images; it delivers high-resolution dense image features and excels at tasks without fine-tuning. 📌 Full story: marktechpost.com/2025/08/14/met… Source: MarkTechPost

Google introduces Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270-million-parameter model optimized for hyper-efficient task fine-tuning. It runs on-device, follows instructions out of the box, and uses minimal power. 📌 Full story: marktechpost.com/2025/08/14/goo… Source: MarkTechPost

Guardrails AI unveils Snowglobe, a simulation engine that generates thousands of persona-driven, multi-turn chatbot conversations in minutes—helping devs uncover edge-case failures before deployment. 📌 Full story: marktechpost.com/2025/08/14/gua… Source: MarkTechPost

Cohere secures $500M at a $6.8B valuation, fueled by backing from AMD, Nvidia, Salesforce, Radical Ventures, and Inovia Capital. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/coh… Source: TechCrunch

The U.S. government is reportedly in talks to take an equity stake in Intel—a move aimed at boosting domestic chipmaking and supporting its Ohio factory. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/u-s… Source: TechCrunch

ChatGPT’s mobile app has generated $2B in lifetime consumer spending, averaging $2.91 per install globally—dominating rival AI chat apps by a wide margin. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/cha… Source: TechCrunch

Salesforce AI releases Moirai 2.0, a faster, leaner decoder-only time-series foundation model that’s 16% more accurate and 44% quicker—while being 96% smaller. 📌 Full story: marktechpost.com/2025/08/15/sal… Source: MarkTechPost

NVIDIA launches Granary, the largest open-source speech dataset (~1M hours across 25 European languages), alongside flagship ASR and translation models—Canary-1b-v2 and Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3. 📌 Full story: marktechpost.com/2025/08/15/nvi… Source: MarkTechPost

Meet dots.ocr, a compact 1.7B-parameter vision-language model that unifies layout detection and content parsing across 100+ languages—achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on text, tables, formulas, and reading order task. 📌 Full story: marktechpost.com/2025/08/16/mee… Source: MarkTechPost

Over dinner (and bread rolls), Sam Altman talked life after GPT-5: gadgets, AI browsers, brain interfaces, social apps—even buying Chrome if it’s ever for sale. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/sam… Source: TechCrunch

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end conversations when faced with persistent harmful or abusive user behavior—an experimental step toward AI self-welfare and safer interactions. 📌 Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/ant… Source: TechCrunch