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Amazon is rolling out AI-generated product images in its shopping app, and the move is raising eyebrows among retail observers who question why a massive e-commerce platform would show shoppers fake p

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,

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has joined forces with Black Forest Labs, the German AI image-generation startup, as both a partner and adviser. The 82-year-old filmmaker confirmed to The New York

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

Google's new AI agent, Gemini Spark, is making waves as a tool that can autonomously handle multi-step tasks in the background, but early hands-on testing by The Verge's Jay Peters suggests the experi

Nvidia has officially entered the consumer laptop processor market with its RTX Spark chip, drawing immediate comparisons to Apple's game-changing M1 debut in 2020. Announced at Computex 2026 and cove

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a first-of-its-kind state lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of rushing ChatGPT to market while ignoring safety

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

WindBorne Systems, a startup founded by Stanford students in 2019, released its WeatherMesh 6 AI weather forecasting model on June 1, 2026, claiming it outperforms the systems developed by the Europea

Box founder Aaron Levie sparked widespread discussion this week with a social media post describing tech CEOs as "uniquely prone to AI psychosis." The comment was examined on TechCrunch's Equity podca

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

A digital deception campaign is exploiting AI technology to create fake Black influencers who emotionally manipulate viewers into purchasing mass-produced Shein merchandise at inflated prices. One suc

In 2022, Craig Campbell turned down investor funding to start a website instead of chasing the AI boom that was swallowing up the tech industry. Campbell, a former Meta engineer and serial entrepreneu

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

Cognition has secured $1 billion in funding at a $26 billion valuation, making the two-year-old startup one of the most valuable AI companies in the industry. The company created Devin, one of the fir

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

Box founder Aaron Levie has coined the term "AI psychosis" to describe a troubling pattern in corporate America: the executives making decisions about replacing workers with AI are often the least qua

AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios. The San Jose-based company is positioning this funding roun

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 closed a massive $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI company for what could be its final private fundraising before going public. The Ser

Amazon Web Services has launched a new version of OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector database specifically designed for AI agents rather than human users. Traditional cloud infra

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

YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered feature that generates personalized video feeds based on text descriptions of what viewers want to watch. Users can describe their interests, mood, or specific

Google's annual developer conference I/O made it clear that AI-generated responses have taken over the front page of search results, and most companies have no idea what AI systems are saying about th

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

Cognition, the startup behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has secured over $1 billion in new funding at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the company revealed Wednesday. This marks a d

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:

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

Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok have renewed their licensing agreement with a focus on removing unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform and improving artist attribution systems. The d

At a United Nations meeting in Geneva in November 2017, attendees of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons—a group focused on lethal autonomous systems—watched a short film called Slaughterbo

Pope Leo XIV issued his first major papal encyclical on Monday, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," which calls on world leaders to establish new legal and ethical frameworks to govern artificial intelligen

The application window for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 closes Friday, May 27, giving early-stage founders one final opportunity to gain access to venture capital, international media exposure

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

Pope Leo XIV released his inaugural encyclical on Monday, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," focused on protecting human dignity amid artificial intelligence. However, the 200-page document ventures far be

Early attempts to hack AI chatbots required almost no technical skill. Users could sometimes bypass expensive safety measures with simple tricks, often just by asking the system to forget its rules. T

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

Google's AI Overviews feature is experiencing a peculiar bug that's causing it to misinterpret certain search queries. When users search for action words like "disregard," "ignore," or "skip," the AI

Google has launched Omni, a new family of generative AI models that can supposedly convert any input—photos, videos, text—into any other format. The first model in the lineup, Omni Flash, is now live

IBM has entered into a partnership with Formula One and Scuderia Ferrari HP, marking the tech giant's first major motorsport sponsorship. The move comes as F1 has surged in popularity globally, partic

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