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techcrunch 23h ago 26°

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
techcrunch 42h ago 24°

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.
techcrunch 44h ago 22°

AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases

CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that the situation is "unsustainable."
techcrunch 48h ago 20°

World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
techcrunch 28h ago 20°

Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil

Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
techcrunch 6h ago 19°

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
techcrunch 3h ago 18°

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models.
techcrunch 4h ago 16°

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.
techcrunch 26h ago 15°

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
techcrunch 11h ago 15°

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
techcrunch 30h ago 14°

Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign

Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io.
techcrunch 46h ago 14°

Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.
techcrunch 25h ago 14°

Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.
techcrunch 23h ago 14°

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.
techcrunch 25h ago 14°

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
techcrunch 24h ago 13°

The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs

TechCrunch spoke to investors to find the hottest startups in the Spring 2026 YC batch. Some of them commanded valuations of over $175 million, VCs said.
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