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AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars | AI News

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December....

Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US | AI News

The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app....

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Last day | AI News

Last day to join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Join 10,000+ tech leaders for a day of connections and insights. Save 75% on your pass now....

Teaching students to think and learn through questions | AI News

Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning...

Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75 | AI News

Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that atta...

Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform | AI News

Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta....

Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis | AI News

The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with th...

Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt | AI News

Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated m...

How Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI technology | AI News

Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes....

Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different | AI News

Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned abou...

YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms | AI News

The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals....

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence | AI News

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed....

SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours | AI News

With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats....

Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models | AI News

See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT....

Deezer will soon let you filter out AI-generated music | AI News

Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year....

Save 50% on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket and join the last two days in San Francisco’s Moscone West | AI News

Get 50% discount on the last two days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Oct. 14-25, in San Francisco's Moscone West. Register now and join the rest of the s...

Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace | AI News

Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell....

Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to | AI News

The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations....

How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours | AI News

With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use....

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 2 | AI News

Day 2 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, full of all themes across AI, investor-only session, more roundtables, and more. Register to save 50% on your pass....

Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI | AI News

Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion....

The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic | AI News

New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value....

Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient | AI News

Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its ...

Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home | AI News

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devi...

Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks | AI News

Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor....

Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings | AI News

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the in...

Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case | AI News

A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony f...

Higgsfield takes AI video from 1 minute to over 10 | AI News

Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmmaking with GPT-Live....

Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads | AI News

Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure....

Facebook is giving users more control over their algorithm | AI News

Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” a feature it first launched on Instagram....

Google Play now lets anyone build private, vibe-coded apps that run on Android | AI News

Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store...

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world | AI News

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before d...

Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache | AI News

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fe...

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites | AI News

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-o...

Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems | AI News

We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model....

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 1 | AI News

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 officially kicks off today. See what's in store for Day 1 (Oct. 13) at San Francisco's Moscone West. Don't miss it. Register f...

SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one subscription | AI News

The new X Subscription combines X's paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month....

The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners, and more. Register now to save up to $100 o...

Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases | AI News

American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing c...

Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy | AI News

The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million....

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? | AI News

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming nex...

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models | AI News

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company ...

Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company | AI News

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make thing...

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder | AI News

Meta's Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, the company's first attempt a...

WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data | AI News

A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US military contract worth almost $50 million....

Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation | AI News

Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies. ...

This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes | AI News

Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings | AI News

Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins. 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Di...

Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background | AI News

Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture...

Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success? | AI News

Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we’v...

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model