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AethexAI, a voice AI startup focused on underserved markets in Africa and the Middle East, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures, with Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund, Mojo Ventures,

Microsoft has unveiled Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, designed to bring autonomous agent capabilities to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Announced on June 2, 2026, th

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced ASSERT, an open-source framework designed to help developers test whether AI systems behave correctly for their specific products and services. Short for Adaptive Spec-

Cyera, the AI-focused data security startup founded in 2021, is closing a funding round of at least $300 million led by Evolution Equity Partners that would value the company at $12 billion, according

Uber has rolled out strict internal spending limits on AI tools after the ridesharing company burned through its entire annual artificial intelligence budget in just four months, according to a Bloomb

Microsoft is rolling out a new open-source framework called Agent Control Specification (ACS), designed to give developers more precise oversight over how autonomous AI agents behave once deployed. An

Alphabet is launching an $80 billion stock offering to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities. The Google parent company announced Monday that it would sell shares worth th

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark "superchip" at Computex in Taipei on Sunday, marking the company's aggressive push into the $200 billion CPU market with a processor designed specifically for AI-powered

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is taking on a new fight: demanding greater transparency from data center operators. The activist, whose legal battle against Pacific Gas & Electric was dramatiz

A London-based Verge reporter spent weeks investigating Gudtrip, a weed vaporizer that promises users Bitcoin rewards for smoking. Robert Hart discovered the device through a Slack message on 4/20, th

Google Chrome and Apple's Safari continue to dominate the browser market in 2026, but a new wave of competitors is challenging their supremacy. Chrome maintains its lead largely due to Google's aggres

SoftBank Group has unveiled plans to invest up to €75 billion (approximately $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France. The Japanese conglomerate, which counts both OpenAI as an investor a

GitHub Copilot is shifting to a token-based billing system starting June 1, replacing its flat subscription model with a pay-per-usage approach that could significantly increase costs for many develop

Meta is working on an AI-powered wearable device that users can wear as a pendant, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information. The company plans to begin testing the device within the n

A startup called Shift is offering to clean New Yorkers' homes for free — with one condition. The company wants to record everything its cleaners do: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting furnitu

In February 2026, AI research lab METR encountered a significant obstacle while attempting to update earlier research on AI coding productivity. The researchers found that most developers simply refus

Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the inference neocloud market, according to sources cited by Axios. Th

China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is developing a derivatives market specifically for AI tokens, joining CME Group and the Intercontinental Exchange in building infrastructure for trading AI-related f

Glean, the enterprise AI search platform sometimes called "the Google for work," has hit $300 million in annual recurring revenue, tripling its $100 million revenue mark from just 15 months prior. The

Anthropic has launched Opus 4.8, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model, marking the fastest upgrade cycle in the company's recent history. The new model arrived just 41 days after Opus 4.7 hit

Vertu, the luxury smartphone maker headquartered in Hong Kong, has unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable device designed specifically for business executives who need to manage company operations on the

Google's AI Overview feature is making elementary spelling mistakes that have become the subject of ridicule online. The artificial intelligence incorrectly stated there are two P's in "Google" (there

Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services in a new cloud infrastructure agreement, the companies revealed Wednesday. The deal represents a substantial portion of Snowfl

Remote, a seven-year-old payroll company headquartered in Amsterdam, announced it has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and achieved cash-flow positive status. But the metric the compan

Meta is expanding its subscription business with new monthly plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp users worldwide. The company announced on May 27, 2026, that it is rolling out consumer subscri

The countdown is on for startup founders and tech professionals looking to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird ticket pricing, which offers savings of up to $410, expires on May 29, 2026 at 11:

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical may have been partially written by artificial intelligence. A detailed analysis by researcher Linch Zhang, shared on the LessWrong forum, used the AI detection tool Pan

Human Archive, a Silicon Valley-based startup, has raised $8.2 million in seed funding to pursue an unconventional strategy: using workers from India's gig economy to collect first-person video data t

ClickUp, the collaboration software startup once valued at $4 billion, laid off 22% of its workforce last Thursday, but CEO Zeb Evans insists this isn't about trimming costs. In a post on X, Evans fra

British literary magazine Granta has found itself at the center of a controversy after questions emerged about whether one of its prize-winning stories was actually written by a human. Jamir Nazir's "

Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, recently shared his perspective on the evolving AI security landscape during an interview at a Los Angeles event. Speaking with measured composure, de Souza emph

Amazon's Bee wearable, the AI wrist gadget the tech giant acquired in 2025, has received a significant feature update, and TechCrunch contributor Lucas Ropek recently got hands-on time with the device

SpaceX's recent IPO filing reveals a significant shift in Elon Musk's energy strategy. While Musk built Tesla on the promise of electrifying the economy and moving away from fossil fuels, his AI ventu

Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of legal AI startup Spellbook, sparked a heated debate in the tech community last month by publicly calling out what he described as a "huge scam" among AI startups

Google's newly redesigned Search experience is running into unexpected problems. The company recently deployed a major overhaul that prioritizes AI-generated summaries while pushing traditional web re

Spotify has launched a new desktop application called Studio by Spotify Labs that generates personalized AI podcasts on any topic, directly competing with Google's NotebookLM. The app allows users to

Samsung and its semiconductor workers have reached a tentative agreement that could see some employees receive bonuses totaling $340,000 annually. The deal was struck after 48,000 Samsung workers thre

Spotify is launching AI-powered features that let users generate their own personal podcasts directly within the app. The feature allows subscribers to create podcasts from ideas or custom prompts, wi

Spotify unveiled a new AI-powered audiobook creation tool at its Investor Day event, developed in partnership with voice AI company ElevenLabs. The feature, designed for self-publishing audiobooks wit

Clouted, a startup that participated in a16z's Speedrun accelerator program in 2024, has secured $7 million in seed funding to solve a major pain point in social media marketing. The round was led by

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence venture xAI reported operating losses of $6.4 billion against just $3.2 billion in revenue for 2025, according to SpaceX's recently filed IPO documents. The company

Google unveiled AI agents at its I/O 2026 keynote that operate continuously in the background, monitoring topics users specify rather than waiting for manual searches. The new agentic capabilities let

Google unveiled Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation application for Google Workspace, during its Google I/O 2026 event on Tuesday. The tech company designed Pics specifically for access

Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its annual I/O developer conference, positioning the new AI model as a significant leap in autonomous agent capabilities rather than just conversational AI. The com

Google DeepMind announced at its I/O developer conference that it is connecting Street View imagery to Project Genie, its general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environ

Anthropic has completed the acquisition of Stainless, a New York-based startup founded in 2022 by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray. The deal, valued at over $300 million according to The Informatio

General Motors has eliminated approximately 600 salaried positions from its information technology division, representing more than 10% of that department, as part of what the automaker describes as a

McDonald's kicked off the AI drive-thru trend in 2021, becoming one of the first major fast-food chains to deploy voice-ordering chatbots at its locations. The company started small, testing the techn

Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das is raising alarms about what he calls a stark wealth divide in the AI industry. In a lengthy social media post, Das described the current atmosphere in San Francisco a

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's co-founder and president, is now officially leading the company's product strategy, according to a Wired report. This move formalizes an existing arrangement where Brockman has