"Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney’s famous marks and brands, and blatantly infringing Disney’s copyrights," a Disney lawyer wrote....
California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The...
OpenAI’s latest app encourages users to generate a personal digital avatar and scroll AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends....
OpenAI's Sora app makes it too easy for people to create misleading AI content....
Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI....
A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending....
California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The...
Waymo's permit to test autonomous vehicles in New York City has been extended to the end of the year, giving the company a few more months to make it big in the Big Apple....
Eazewell helps families navigate end-of-life planning, from coordinating a funeral to cancelling someone's mail, with the help of AI....
Prickly Pear Health provides medical support for women’s brain health, a voice-first, AI-powered companion that helps women in their 30s to 50s navigate the hormonal changes that affect brain health....
A startup called Deta is releasing a new app called Surf, which is a remix of an AI browser and NotebookLM....
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Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight....
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OpenAI has struck agreements with two of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, to make DRAM wafers for the Stargate AI infrastructure project, and build data centers in South Korea....
Google teases a new Gemini-powered smart speaker, due out in spring 2026....
Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram....
Google's new Nest cameras and doorbell are getting a Gemini upgrade....
Google redesigns its Home app for better usability and adds Gemini-powered features....
Google brings Gemini to the smart home with new devices, AI for existing customers and more....
Salesforce is also releasing a vibe coding agent named Vibe Codey to help companies foray into vibe coding with enterprise security....
I made an epic trek across four countries to answer one question: Why is the world going mad for a plushie monster?...
A new database will make Wikipedia's wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models....
Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry's who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos....
The social app Sora will let users generate videos of themselves and their friends, which they can share in a TikTok-like feed....
Granola is launching a way for users to repeatedly use prompts via a new feature called Recipes....
Hance is working on low energy-consuming, on-device processing that's already attracted the likes of Intel....
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos and StrictlyVC’s Alex Gove spoke with with Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, fresh off the company’s $250 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation. They discussed Replit’s remarkable journey from hovering...
PayPal's Honey will now with with ChatGPT to find shopping deals....
At TechCrunch Disrupt, the Aerospace Corporation is pulling back the curtain on how artificial intelligence is reshaping the space economy — through bold startups and cutting-edge research....