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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had earned another Game of the Year award by the Indie Game Awards last week, but the organization has since announced that the award would be retracted because developer Sandfall Interactive used generative AI during development. …
My name is Alexandru Stan, and this article continues the dialogue I began following the acquisition of TNW. Following the recent transaction, TNW Spaces remains with the Financial Times, while we continue the mission of the website, the events, and the globa…
elementaryOS 8.1 beta brings even more refinement and simplicity to an already elegant and friendly OS.
The app lets you shop conversationally and shows tickets you might otherwise miss.
Sigma Browser OÜ Friday announced the launch of its privacy-focused web browser, which features a local artificial intelligence model that doesn’t send data to the cloud. Numerous browser companies are jumping onto the AI bandwagon and incorporating major AI …
Google AI is coming to your kitchen, and it can see what's inside your fridge.
Splat's app uses AI to turn your photos into coloring pages for kids | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Anthropic PBC announced the release of Bloom on Friday, an open-source agentic framework for defining and exploring the behavior of frontier artificial intelligence models. Bloom takes a researcher-specified behavior and evaluates its frequency and severity b…
Ahead of CES 2026, LG has announced a series of new speakers and soundbars, all of which support the brand's new Sound Suite and Dolby Atmos Flex.
pearOS makes switching from Mac easy. Here's why.
Salesforce added 6,000 Agentforce customers in one quarter, hitting $540M in revenue—challenging the AI bubble narrative with real enterprise adoption and ROI.
It features voice-guided directions and offline search capabilities, prioritizing privacy at the forefront.
Gartner recently suggested four future scenarios for AI at work, and said businesses and their staff should prepare for all of them. Here's how to embrace that transformation for big benefits.
I traveled with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and the Oppo Find X8 Ultra, but only one earned a permanent spot in my travel bag.
Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy-themed playsets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.
Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship. IRL companionship is the future.
Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech?
A new report out today from Swiss artificial intelligence-powered managed extended detection and response company Ontinue AG warns of the growing abuse of Nezha, a legitimate open-source server monitoring tool, as a stealthy post-exploration remote access tro…
Paid Post | Many leaders believe automation can reduce compliance risks, yet few have likely applied it where it could matter most: document workflows.
Robotaxis operated by Google’s Waymo LLC came to an abrupt halt across San Francisco on Saturday evening after a power outage uncovered a major flaw in the way the autonomous vehicles navigate. The outage was first reported by CNBC and left more than 130,000 …
Agent autonomy without guardrails is an SRE nightmareventurebeat.com
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”
Wing and Walmart's partnership has expanded to the metro Atlanta area, with other cities in its direct line of sight.
In perhaps the last public interview of one Israel's most famous VCs, Jon Medved tells TechCrunch how tech will enhance his life.
With the rising technological prowess and greater openness of Chinese models, the world is increasingly turning to the East for efficient and customizable AI, a new report finds.
AI continues its pervasive integration across tech, from hardware and software to marketing and ethical considerations.dev.to
OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
The bill will require large AI developers to publish information about their safety protocols and report safety incidents to the state within 72 hours.
Plus: Cisco discloses a zero-day with no available patch, Venezuela accuses the US of a cyberattack, and more.
Spend any time around Clojure and a familiar cluster of claims soon appears. You will be told...
Plus: Samsung also announces new Micro RGB TVs, and a looming global memory crunch might make Nvidia reduce its supply of graphics cards.
The newest episode raises questions about whether Sequoia's new leadership -- managing partners Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, who took over last month -- can or will rein in Maguire's social media activity.
If you told me last year the Nex Playground would outsell Microsoft's Xbox, even for two weeks, I would have laughed my way out of the room. It's a three-inch cube of a game console that's likely less powerful than your phone, one which uses a single camera t…
In today’s episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—that encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.
Google isn't ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices just yet. The company said on Friday that it will "continue our work to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini on mobile devices into 2026," instead of its original plans to make the switch by …
Investors at TechCrunch Disrupt explained their focus on artificial intelligence and offered advice to founders on how to stand out in a crowded AI field.
Enterprise technology investment continues to accelerate, but the friction point has shifted. The hard part is no longer training models or selecting architectures. It’s getting those models into production, keeping them responsive under real-world conditions…
Palo Alto Networks Inc. will move some of its most important internal workloads to Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership announced today. The cybersecurity provider described the project as a multibillion-dollar deal in a press release. Accordi…
TheCUBE spent 2025 talking directly with top tech executives as they worked through how computing is being rebuilt inside their organizations, driven by real-world constraints rather than abstract roadmaps. Across those conversations, a consistent shift emerg…
OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up - or down - ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose whether you want "more" or "less" of these personality traits, or stick with the default. There are als…
As organizations push to translate AI investments into tangible operational value, attention is increasingly shifting from experimentation to execution. Agentic AI has gained momentum because it extends beyond isolated models or content generation tools, enab…
Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's sea…
Watch as Equity discusses what went wrong for iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes, plus Amazon's massive OpenAI bet and Trump's new approach to AI regulation.
Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun confirmed on Thursday the worst-kept secret in the tech world: that he had indeed launched a new startup. Although he did say he will not be running the new company as its CEO.
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.
What went wrong for three once-promising hardware companies? Equity is discussing the latest wave of bankruptcies, plus Amazon's massive OpenAI bet and Trump's new approach to AI regulation.
According to YouTube's 2025 Recap feature, the podcast I consumed the most on its platform was Seth Meyers' recurring segment "A Closer Look" on his show Late Night. Last year, I would have argued that this is not a podcast. That it is, in fact, a clip of a T…
These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We poll…
Trump Media - yup, the parent company of Truth Social - is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday, and a bold plan to break gro…
Sweden-based Endra Systems AB, an artificial intelligence and generative design startup for engineers who make buildings habitable, announced Thursday it raised $20 million in seed funding led by Notion Capital. When it comes to construction, buildings are mo…
RJ Scaringe is sitting in Rivian's Palo Alto offices, explaining why the adventure-themed EV company suddenly decided to build its own self-driving cars, when an unexpected guest glides by the window outside: Waymo. A robotaxi from the Alphabet-owned company …
The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.
LG has announced a series of new speakers and soundbars, all of which support the brand's new Sound Suite and Dolby Atmos Flex tech.
Here's how to use Google Gemini to detect certain AI-generated videos.
Meta is developing a new image and video model for a 2026 release, report says | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spread propaganda to slow the US data-center building boom? Where are AI agents headed?
The latest update addresses security bugs and enhances apps like AirDrop and Reminders. Don't forget to update your other Apple devices, too.
Rapid advances in AI and robotics are set to become both powerful tools for police and potent weapons for criminals, a 48-page report from pan-European police agency Europol argues. Earlier this month, Europol's Innovation Lab published "The Unmanned Future(s…
All year on The Vergecast, we've been tracking the many bizarre and problematic actions of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. There has been a lot to discuss! Then, this week, ahead of one of our last episodes of the year, Carr appeared in front of the Senate Commerc…
Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today announced a new partnership with artificial intelligence code editor company Cursor Inc. to bring secure, just-in-time secrets to Cursor. The partnership has started with the deployment of a Hook…
A new report out today from artificial intelligence security startup Cyata Security Ltd. details a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Cursor Inc.’s integrated development environment that exposed risks tied to trusted installation workflows and a…
The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.”
Here's how to convince managers that it's in their best interests to facilitate more flexible working arrangements.
TikTok’s chief executive told employees today that the company has signed agreements that will ensure it can continue operating in the U.S. In a memo, TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, said that parent company ByteDance Ltd. and TikTok have signed bindi…
Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools. The Series C round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sach…
Alexa works well out of the box, but these lesser-known features improve it further.
I’m a big fan of any technology that makes our lives easier. One example of this is Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which I consider to be the easiest check out experience available today. Customers tap their credit card on a reader, walk in a store, pick …
OpenAI Group PBC has released a new version of GPT-Codex, its agentic artificial intelligence coding model that’s designed to automate complex software engineering tasks. The latest version, GPT-5.2-Codex, builds upon the capabilities of GPT-5.2, adding impro…
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. today announced plans to merge with TAE Technologies Inc., a startup that develops fusion reactors. The all-stock transaction is worth $6 billion. Ownership of the combined company is set to be evenly split between the sha…
TikTok agrees to deal to cede control of U.S. business to American investor group | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Apple says it can now collect any money a developer owes the tech giant at any time.
Data management provider AtScale Inc. today announced that it has closed a funding round led by Snowflake Inc.’s venture capital arm. The company didn’t specify the size of the deal, saying only that it’s the largest equity investment it has received to date.…
Anthropic PBC said today it’s updating its Skills feature, which enables companies to teach its powerful large language model how to perform very specific, work-related tasks. The update comes as the artificial intelligence industry doubles-down on so-called …
Edison Scientific Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup building autonomous AI scientists to help accelerate scientific research, announced today that it has raised $70 million in new funding to expand its operations and development effo…
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. By all measures, Meta's Threads app had a very good year. The app was Apple's second-most-downloaded iOS app of th…
OpenAI and Anthropic are making tweaks to their chatbots that they say will make them safer for teens. As OpenAI has updated its guidelines on how ChatGPT should interact with users between the ages of 13 and 17, Anthropic is working on a new way to identify …
FreeBSD isn't Linux, but if you didn't know any better, you'd swear it was.
LG says it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs after several reports highlighted the unremovable icon. In a statement to The Verge, LG spokesperson Chris De Maria says the company "respects consumer choice and will t…
Google expanded Gemini's AI verification feature to videos made or edited with the company's own AI models. Users can now ask Gemini to determine if an uploaded video is AI-generated by asking, "Was this generated using Google AI?" Gemini will scan the video'…
Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has joined OpenAI as managing director and head of OpenAI for Countries. He also will run Coinbase's internal advisory council.
ChatGPT has reached $3B in lifetime mobile consumer spending in just 31 months, faster than TikTok and major streaming apps.
You can now get your daily news from an AI-generated podcast roundup.
University of Michigan is turning its campus into a real-world AI proving ground, where emerging technology meets the next generation of workers before they even graduate. That experiment took center stage during Google LLC’s recent “GCP Goes to School” immer…
University of Michigan is turning its campus into a real-world AI proving ground, where emerging technology meets the next generation of workers before they even graduate. That experiment took center stage during Google LLC’s recent “GCP Goes to School” immer…
Capable of creating “nearly perfect” face swaps during live video chats, Hoatian has made millions, mainly via Telegram. But its main channel vanished after WIRED's inquiry into scammers using the app.
Mozilla's new CEO declares that AI is the future of the Firefox browser. Can you find a Linux user who welcomes the news?
The Skills feature allows Claude to do repetitive tasks, and it's now easier for organizations to use.
Embedded cybersecurity firm Exein SpA today announced it raised €100 million (around $117 million) to accelerate the company’s global expansion and develop a next-generation platform to defend connected devices against cyber attacks. The new investment was le…
Park Chan-wook's 12th feature-length movie, No Other Choice, begins with Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) as a proud patriarch at the barbecue, a vision of the platonic ideal domestic life he will spend most of the movie defending. In the long middle where life is live…
The news that the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum, iRobot, filed for bankruptcy this week came as no surprise. Its CEO, Gary Cohen, had been warning investors all year that the company could run out of cash unless a buyer was found. When its last potential d…
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Peripheral Labs taps into self-driving car sensors to bring sports fans right into the game | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
The driver assistance software is available on Rivian's for Gen 2 R1 cars and works on 3.5 million miles of North American roads. But it doesn't slow or stop for traffic lights or stop signs.
Radiant Industries Inc., a pioneering startup developing portable, mass-produced nuclear microreactors, said Wednesday it raised over $300 million led by Draper Associates and Boost VC. Additional existing investors also joined the company’s newest capital ra…
Want to ditch Chrome? The Aloha browser actually takes your privacy and security seriously. Here's how.
Microsoft is at it again with another round of ads showing people talking to Copilot AI on their computers. This time it's holiday-themed, including a cameo from the big man in red. The 30-second TV spot asks if you're "ready for the holidays" and features ac…
Art Hu, Lenovo's global CIO, explains how the tech giant exploits AI effectively. And you can do it, too.
Micron, one of the three biggest memory suppliers in the world, forecasts rough months ahead for the global RAM supply. As part of its earnings report released on Wednesday, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said "tight industry conditions" across DRAM and NAND flas…
Epic Games CEO says Fortnite won't return to Japan, though, because the new rules still require high fees.
Commercial trucking insurance startup Nirvana Tech Inc. said today it has raised $100 million in a late-stage round of funding that will fuel its expansion into new industry segments. The startup has built what it describes as the world’s first artificial int…