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Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? | TechCrunch
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India's Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards | TechCrunch
Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will act as co-CEOs of the new entity.

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B | TechCrunch
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.

Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny | TechCrunch
In one crash, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to slow it down and avoid a "catastrophic intersection collision."

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? | TechCrunch
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics | TechCrunch
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Seven Seven Six.
How the Boston Red Sox finally broke the ‘Curse of the Bambino’ to end an 86-year championship drought | CNN
Editor’s note: Watch CNN Original Series “Decades in Sports” on the CNN app. Across six episodes, the series explores the defining moments, athletes and cultural shifts that shaped sports over the past six decades, from the television revolution and Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, right up to the impact of social media on today’s biggest stars.

He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him | CNN
When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy — a vessel that set a U.S. military record for uninterrupted time at sea, stirring concerns about supply shortages and deteriorating mental health among soldiers.

Sean Grayson, former Illinois deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison, lawyer says | CNN
CHICAGO (AP) — Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.