Day: July 7, 2025

Fact-checker Logically files for administration after losing TikTok and Meta contracts Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/logically-ai-fact-check-misinformation-trump-tiktok-meta/

‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’ On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/improved-grok-criticizes-democrats-and-hollywoods-jewish-executives/

At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. While most are AI-related, a surprising

X blocked Reuters accounts in India The main Reuters news account, as well as the Reuters World account, have apparently been inaccessible to X users in India since Saturday evening. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/x-blocks-reuters-accounts-in-india/

Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/researchers-seek-to-influence-peer-review-with-hidden-ai-prompts/

How Brex is keeping up with AI by embracing the ‘messiness’ Brex quickly realized its normal software procurement process wouldn’t work in the age of AI and found a new way to test and vet tools. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/how-brex-is-keeping-up-with-ai-by-embracing-the-messiness/