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AI is able to automate less than 3% of the work now performed by independent contractors, a new study finds.

Just when we thought Epic v. Google might be over, just one Supreme Court rejection away from a complete victory for Epic, both sides have agreed to settle Tuesday evening. And if Judge James Donato, who ordered Google to crack open Android for third-party st…

MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver.

Qualcomm Ventures has joined six Indian venture firms, collectively adding more than $850 million to boost India’s deep-tech ecosystem.

From editable PDFs to instant translations, Google Docs is packed with features most people never use.

Whether you're new to password managers or ready to switch to a different solution, these five recommendations include something for every user.

Arista Networks Inc. posted higher revenue and profit during the third quarter, but its guidance for the current quarter suggests sales growth will virtually come to a halt on a sequential basis. The cloud networking company reported earnings before certain c…

Google Maps is bringing Gemini’s AI chatbot to more features, including more “conversational” route planning and the use of landmarks and nearby business for navigation. Google has slowly been adding AI to many of its products, including Maps, which last year…

Server maker Super Micro Computer Inc.’s stock took a nosedive in extended trading today after the company missed expectations with its first-quarter results. The company’s stock was down more than 9% after it reported earnings before certain costs such as st…

Google LLC today detailed Project Suncatcher, an initiative to launch artificial intelligence chips into orbit aboard satellites. One of the main motivations behind the project is that solar panels generate significantly more power in space than on Earth. Mor…

A UK court has mostly sided with Stability AI Ltd. in a case that focused on the startup’s use of copyrighted images to train artificial intelligence models. The High Court of Justice issued the ruling today. London-based Stability AI is an AI model developer…

Amazon won't allow agents on its site that don't identify themselves as such. Perplexity is not pleased.

Israeli cybersecurity startup Daylight Security Inc. revealed today that it had raised $33 million in new funding to fuel its U.S. expansion, accelerate product development and support the launch of new artificial intelligence-driven modules for identity thre…

Apple Podcasts will soon include automatically-generated chapters for shows in English and allow creators to add links at specific timestamps in their episodes. Timed links may also be added to episodes automatically whenever creators mention another podcast.…

People Inc forges AI licensing deal with Microsoft as Google traffic drops | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com

The multi-year reorganization journey at Celonis SE has culminated in a system-agnostic, artificial intelligence-driven process intelligence platform. Simultaneously, the company’s market positioning has strengthened, with a fourfold increase in the number of…

Cloud-native infrastructure is driving a new era of artificial intelligence performance, where open innovation and scalable orchestration are redefining how enterprises deploy intelligence across hybrid environments. As generative workloads grow, the converge…

Kyndryl Holdings Inc. reported a small revenue decline but higher profits for its fiscal second quarter. The information technology services company said revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30 fell 1% year-over-year to $3.7 billion, below analyst expectations…

Microsoft’s first in-house AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, is now available in two products, Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The company announced the model in October. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a post on X that the text-…

Amazon doesn’t want to be a part of Perplexity’s AI-powered shopping experience. In a post on Tuesday, the ecommerce giant says it has “repeatedly requested” that Perplexity stop allowing its Comet AI browser to buy products for customers, which Perplexity ha…

With Sora, you can create short-form, AI-generated videos featuring yourself or your friends - no invite code needed.

Process intelligence has made headway in impacting outcomes for youth in the justice and mental health systems. The collaboration between The College of William & Mary and Evident Change continues to demonstrate how data-driven insights can expose inefficienc…

This weekend, I turned my home into a test lab for Google's new Gemini for Home AI and subjected my family to 72 hours of surveillance as it watched, interpreted, and narrated our every move. My purpose? To find out if an AI that sees everything is actually h…

It's the second time this year Rivian has spun out a new company, after it created micromobility startup Also in March.

Smoother and longer video recording is coming to older Meta smart glasses, but there's more to the November update.

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Happy New York City mayoral election day to everyone who's voting, watching from afar, or just here for the memes. And happy 35th day of the federal government shutdown, which, as of today, is tied for the longest shutdown in h…

Process intelligence, the use of artificial intelligence to optimize business processes, could transform one of the most complex, process-heavy sectors: banking. Metro Bank PLC has partnered with Celonis SE, a process intelligence and AI platform, to identify…

Just over three years after taking the reins as the steward of the storied firm, Botha passed the leadership baton to Lin and Grady.

For example, you can ask "find me 2 cheap tickets for the Shaboozey concert coming up. prefer standing floor tickets." AI Mode will then search across multiple websites to find real-time ticket options that meet your specific requests.

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced plans to build a subsea internet cable that will stretch from Maryland to County Cork, Ireland. The cable, which is called Fastnet, is currently in the design phase. It’s expected to become operational in 2028. Fastnet…

Enterprises are realizing that artificial intelligence can’t deliver value without the right foundation — and that foundation increasingly depends on process intelligence. The shift toward understanding how work really happens is fueling both efficiency and e…

Enterprise technology projects are stalling, and the problem isn’t a lack of capability. Companies deploy sophisticated AI agents only to watch them fail in isolation, disconnected from the messy, multi-system reality of how work actually happens. The missing…

OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android. The app, which lets you create, share, and remix AI-generated videos, is now available on the Google Play Store in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, according to an announcement…
The next wave of enterprise transformation is being driven by data-smart automation that learns, adapts and acts. In this new landscape, artificial intelligence and the AI agent marketplace are helping organizations bridge the gap between insight and executio…

Now that spooky season’s over, it’s time to swap the pumpkins and skeletons for something a little more cheery ahead of the holidays. Govee’s Christmas Lights 2 are customizable string lights that will add some smart home magic to your tree, with plenty of sl…

Anyscale Inc., creator of the open-source distributed computing platform Ray, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft Corp. and the private preview of a new artificial intelligence-native compute service co-developed with Microsoft and delivered as a…

Shopify says AI-driven traffic to its online stores is up 7x since January, and orders from AI search are up 11x.

The race to make enterprise data truly useful is heating up — and process intelligence is quickly becoming the secret weapon. By fusing analytics, automation and artificial intelligence, it’s turning once-static workflows into self-improving systems that actu…

Google Maps is rolling out live lane guidance to drivers of the Google-powered electric Polestar 4. The company announced Tuesday that the new feature relies on the EV’s front-facing camera to “see” lane markings and road signs. That information feeds into Go…

The Information reports that Anthropic expects to generate as much as $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow in 2028. The growth projections are fueled by rapid adoption of Anthropic’s business products, a person with knowledge of the company’s f…

Despite its imprecision, the fourth "Master Plan" is a centerpiece of Tesla's case for giving CEO Elon Musk $1 trillion in company shares.

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics AG said Monday it raised $16 million in seed funding from Elaia and Speedinvest to enable robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks that conventional machinery can’t. Founderful, 1st kind, 10X Founders, 2100 Vent…

Gartner's list of top 10 strategic technology trends for 2026 and beyond reveals AI's impact on operational excellence and digital trust.

From editable PDFs to instant translations, Google Docs offers numerous features that many people overlook.

Earfun's Air Pro 4+ earbuds outshine many other devices costing considerably more. Here's how they stand out for me.

Enterprise software giant SAP SE is expanding its Business Data Cloud offering and doubling down on AI-ready data architectures, with product roll-outs and enhancements focused on bringing data and AI tools to developers and data engineers. Today, during Tech…

The deal is a major win for Amazon as it races to dominate the booming AI cloud market.

Nvidia has signed a €1 billion partnership with Deutsche Telekom to set up an "AI factory" in Munich that aims to boost Germany's AI computing power by 50%.

Security researchers at software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today revealed details of a critical vulnerability in React, the open-source JavaScript library developed by Meta Platforms Inc., that potentially puts millions of developers at risk of remote c…

GoFundMe is letting you gift nonprofit gift cards to loved ones to help them donate to their favorite organizations.

Portal26 Inc., a startup that helps companies protect employees from risky artificial intelligence applications, has raised $9 million in funding. Shasta Ventures led the Series A investment. It was joined by Fusion Fund and the venture capital arm of an unna…

ClickUp adds new AI assistant to better compete with Slack and Notion | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com

New Relic Inc. is extending its observability capabilities for artificial intelligence agents with the launch today of a new Agentic AI Monitoring tool and its AI Model Context Protocol Server. The first is meant to provide companies with more holistic visibi…

Identity management solution provider Frontegg Ltd. today announced the launch of FrontEgg AgentLink, an enterprise-grade Model Context Protocol server that allows software-as-a-service applications to open their application programming interfaces securely to…

Data security platform company Veza Inc. today announced a major expansion of its Access AI platform that extends the power of artificial intelligence to govern and secure all enterprise identities, and also introduced Access AuthZ to automate user provisioni…

Application programming interface management company Kong Inc. is expanding support for autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the latest release of Insomnia, its open-source API development platform. Kong says the latest release, Insomnia 12, is smar…

Snowflake Inc. today announced the general availability of Snowflake Intelligence, the centerpiece of the company’s latest wave of artificial intelligence-driven products aimed at allowing employees across skill levels to derive insights from enterprise data.…

Data integration platform provider Nexla Inc. today announced the launch of Express, a conversational data engineering platform designed to make it simple for anyone to work with data. Express has been created to address what Nexla says is a bottleneck in art…

Startup RapidFire AI Inc. today released an open-source software package aimed at simplifying the development of the pipelines that are increasingly central to enterprise artificial intelligence applications. The package, RapidFire AI RAG, extends the company…

Planbase Technologies Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered employee management platform for healthcare, today announced its launch with $2.1 million in funding. The investment round was joined by Y Combinator, LocalGlobe and several prominent angels. Plan…

Alexa+, Amazon's upgraded assistant powered by AI, is coming to the music streaming app for iOS and Android devices.

Amazon is using Alexa Plus to bring new AI capabilities to its Music streaming service. Starting today, customers in the Alexa Plus Early Access beta will be able to access the generative AI assistant within the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, allowing u…

AI companies know that children are the future - of their business model. The industry doesn't hide their attempts to hook the youth on their products through well-timed promotional offers, discounts, and referral programs. "Here to help you through finals," …

Available today, the new SLES 16 is ushering in an AI-ready, top-notch Linux server, while emphasizing its benefits for digital sovereignty.

EuQlid Inc., a startup that has developed a quantum device for analyzing the inner workings of semiconductors, launched today with $3 million in funding. The capital was provided by QDNL and Quantonation, two venture capital firms focused on quantum technolog…

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform company Bugcrowd Inc. today announced that it has acquired Mayhem Security, an artificial intelligence offensive security company, to advance the next generation of humans-in-the-loop, AI-powered security testing. Founded i…

Apple's latest iOS update doesn't introduce major features, but it does bring one highly-requested tweak: the ability to change the transparency of the translucent liquid glass design.

A new report out today from Google Cloud Security is warning of artificial intelligence-driven cyberthreats and rising global extortion rates next year. The Cybersecurity Forecast 2026 report details how AI will transform both cyberattacks and defenses and ho…

But ideally, the journalist and podcast host would rather not work for tech CEOs at all.

Celonis SE is stepping up its efforts to help organizations reshape their business operations with agentic artificial intelligence, announcing today at its annual user conference Celosphere 2025 new capabilities within its namesake Process Intelligence Platfo…

The traditional sales playbook is failing because of fragmented tools and information systems. Here's how sales teams can get back on the same page.

Available today, the new SLES 16 is ushering in an AI-ready, top-notch Linux server, while emphasizing its benefits for digital sovereignty.

The settings are a bit hidden, but there are ways to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.

In a CBS “60 Minutes” interview aired on Sunday, President Trump said he didn’t know who Changpeng Zhao is, even though he’s the crypto billionaire with ties to the Trump family’s own crypto venture. Zhao was the co-founder of Binance, the world’s largest cry…

From editable PDFs to instant translations, Google Docs offers numerous features that many people overlook.

AI Infrastructure & Strategic Partnerships Major cloud providers are solidifying their...

The healthcare-focused artificial intelligence startup Hippocratic AI Inc. said today it has banked $126 million in its latest Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $404 million at a $3.5 billion valuation. The round, which comes just 10…

Andreessen Horowitz is pausing its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, according to multiple sources.

Big data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc. delivered solid results that surpassed analysts’ expectations and offered bullish guidance for the current quarter, citing artificial intelligence as its most important growth driver. In its third-quarter …

Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners -- and which are still wide open | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com

Nightly preview releases allow developers to begin developing Android applications in Apple’s Swift programming language.

Microsoft Corp. plans to significantly grow its data center footprint in the United Arab Emirates through a partnership with a local company. The tech giant announced the initiative today alongside a second major infrastructure investment. Microsoft disclosed…

Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com

Locket's social app is using iOS Live Activities to reach Gen Alpha via the iPhone Lock Screen.

Peter Williams sold eight exploits to a Russian zero-day broker by smuggling them from his employer’s highly secured air-gapped network. A court document, plus exclusive reporting by TechCrunch and interviews with former Trenchant staff, explains how Williams…

This deal was announced just hours after Microsoft announced a $9.7 billion deal with Australian data center company IREN.

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it would be caught on your TV. Fifteen years later, we know the …

OpenAI Group PBC will rent $38 billion worth of cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services Inc. as part of a seven-year partnership announced today. The news comes less than a week after the ChatGPT developer revised the terms of its relationship with Micr…

If you're upgrading your Windows or Mac PC and are overwhelmed with the options, here's what to prioritize in your selection process.

Dell Technologies Inc. is bringing its data-driven “AI factories” vision to life with the expanded AI Data Platform — an open and composable stack built for scalable operational returns. Built on a four-pillar foundation of PowerScale, ObjectScale, Elastic an…

Even in auto racing, it’s all about the data today. Amazon Web Services Inc. is a global partner of Formula One and has been the official cloud and machine learning provider for the league since 2018. The dynamic, longstanding partnership comes down to three …

Waymo's robotaxi expansion accelerates with 3 new cities | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com

OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup.

In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we run through the top stories of the week and dive into why the promise of a tech-forward school in Texas with software instead of teachers fell apart.

Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.

Desktop users who have enhanced autofill enabled with see their passport and driver’s license number, vehicle information, like their license plate or VIN, and more automatically filled.

A new agreement between the two companies aims to tackle the legal messiness of AI image generation.

The two companies aim to better credit images in query results. Here's how it could impact information quality.

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, as reported b…

Coca-Cola is once again using generative AI to reimagine its classic Coke caravan holiday commercials, and in doing so, killing some of the festive joy you have for the brand. After receiving backlash for airing three AI-generated holiday commercials last yea…