Google's AI-generated answers now dominate search results, leaving brands with little visibility into how the technology describes them to customers. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Scrunch VP of part…
Meta launched global consumer subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on Wednesday, offering plans from $2.99 to $3.99 per month for extra features like profile customization and story ins…
Cognition, the developer of the autonomous AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation on Wednesday, a sharp increase from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation…
Voice AI company ElevenLabs launched Music v2, a music-generation model that can switch genres mid-track, such as transitioning from opera to heavy metal, and allows artists to edit specific song sect…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified a…
Database provider ClickHouse has reached $250 million in annualized revenue run rate, tripling its business from last year, co-founder and president Yury Izrailevsky told TechCrunch. The less-than-fiv…
ClickHouse has tripled its annualized revenue run rate to $250 million, with co-founder Yury Izrailevsky projecting the figure will reach the high-nine digits by year-end. The database provider, value…
YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI content, moving beyond its previous policy of relying solely on creator disclosures. The company announced W…
Box CEO Aaron Levie warned that tech executives are suffering from "AI psychosis," a delusion that artificial intelligence can fully automate complex work processes they do not personally oversee. Lev…
Robinhood launched support for AI agentic trading and a new agentic credit card on Wednesday, allowing users to create separate accounts for AI agents that can analyze portfolios, execute stock trades…
DuckDuckGo reported a 30% spike in U.S. app installs in late May as users fled Google's AI-driven search overhaul, which replaced traditional blue links with an AI agent and offered no opt-out. The pr…
OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, raised $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Alphabet, reaching a post-money valuation of approximately $1.3 b…
Human Archive, a Silicon Valley startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford students, has raised $8.2 million to equip Indian gig economy workers with camera-equipped caps that collect first-person vi…
Universal Music Group and TikTok renewed their global licensing agreement, committing to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform and improve artist and songwriter attribution. The dea…
ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans laid off 22% of the company's workforce last Thursday, framing the cuts not as cost-saving but as a strategic shift toward AI that will create a "100x org." The collaboration sof…
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, on Monday, using artificial intelligence as a framing device to address what he described as older, more pervasive problems includin…
Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza warned that companies cannot treat security as an afterthought in the AI era, arguing that "there's no such thing as an AI strategy without a data strategy and a secu…
Xreal, a longtime partner of Google, announced its latest smart glasses model, Project Aura, at Google’s I/O conference, claiming the industry has reached an inflection point after years of financial …
Amazon's Bee wearable, an AI-powered wrist gadget that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations, offers useful organizational benefits for professionals but raises privacy concerns. The devi…
Scammers have been exploiting a loophole in Microsoft's internal account notification system for several months, using the legitimate email address msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com to send spa…