OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.
AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million.
Amazon Prime Video takes on TikTok with short-form news clips
Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.
ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves
If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising 'ClickFix' security threat.
Auditing the agent economy: what the forecasts actually say
Grand View Research puts the enterprise agentic AI market at $24.5 billion by 2030. On the other hand, MarketsandMarkets estimates the AI agents’ market size at $52.62 billion ove…
Agentic commerce is loosening the grocery aisle’s grip on the shopper
Grocery shopping has become a strange paradox of modern retail, where consumers can order dinner from their phones, receive groceries at their doors, and have previous baskets sav…
Before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal built reverse mortgage software later adopted by other lenders
Years before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal was already building mortgage software. Earlier in his career at Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. he developed ReverseSoft, a backend…
Volkswagen’s crazy-efficient EV borrows an idea from Slate
Volkswagen's new efficiency-minded halo car is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car, the Lucid Air.
With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again
Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day
macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps
The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows and icons more consistent.
Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations
OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate the chatbot’s replies under the internal codename Project Lily, and did not answer when asked …
Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll
Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream's app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for products through Siri without opening …
Anthropic has built a Claude tool for financial advisers
Anthropic has launched Claude for Financial Advisers, wiring the chatbot into portfolio and research tools from BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and iCapital, and says it will …
Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flouris…
xAI dismisses its Apple claims, with no terms disclosed and the OpenAI case still live
xAI and X Corp asked a Texas judge to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple over the integration of ChatGPT into the iPhone, while keeping their monopolisation claims again…
Waymo opens robotaxi service in Las Vegas
Las Vegas will be Waymo's 15th commercial robotaxi market.
Volkswagen says it has built the most efficient electric car ever tested
Volkswagen’s Mission Efficiency concept set three certified records, including a 0.158 drag coefficient and a 1,278 km run from Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charging stop. European …
Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg
Automattic’s board is out, days after its members voted to put chief executive Matt Mullenweg on leave, sources tell TechCrunch.
Microsoft’s new AI rulebook rejects the research its $5bn partner is doing
Microsoft published an AI code of conduct for its own models on Monday. One passage rejects the idea that a model could deserve welfare or hold rights. Anthropic runs a research p…
Oracle told staff on Monday that Monday was their last working day
Oracle began another fresh round of layoffs on Monday. Three affected employees and a copy of the notification email described the round to Business Insider, which reported that s…
Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it
Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours aft…
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
If you're building an AI company, the question isn't whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It's whether your company will continue creating value as they do. The grea…
Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
Fathom said that it has over 400,000 monthly active users
The Commission unveils its EU Kids Act on Thursday with the age limit still unsettled
The European Commission will present the EU Kids Act on Thursday, its legislative response to more than a year of pressure from member states and parents over the impact of social…