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....
Amazon debuts new devices, the Dot Max, Echo Studio, Echo Show 8, and Echo Show 11, powered by AI....
Amazon unveiled new AI features for its Ring devices, such as the ability to identify familiar faces and help locate a lost dog....
Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character AI, joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to discuss human-like AI companions, ethical and technical challenges, and the legal scrutiny facing conversational AI....
Amazon announced new Fire TV devices, 4K Stick and Alexa+ AI features for TV viewers....
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The central pitch of AI browsers like Perplexity’s Comet, Opera’s Neon, and The Browser Company’s Dia is that they’ll help you complete daily tasks more efficiently. While these are agents that are limited to one browser, Composite aims to build an agentic solution that helps...