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Overview Reddit announced on Thursday that it is testing a new AI‑powered search tool that pulls community recommendations and matches them with products from...

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New York Governor Withdraws Robotaxi Proposal Waymo’s big chance to bring its robotaxis to the state of New York has been thwarted — for now. New York Governor...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in court on Wednesday in a landmark trial aiming to determine if the tech giant’s social‑media applications are addictive and...

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SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy is expected to build a massive 9.2 GW natural‑gas‑fired power plant on the Ohio‑Kentucky border, according to a Bloomberg reportht...

Funding Deal Overview OpenAI is nearing a deal to raise more than $100 billion at a valuation that could exceed $850 billion, according to Bloomberg^1. Potenti...

Current – A New Take on RSS Reading A new app called Currenthttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/current-reader/id6758530974 is rethinking the RSS reader, aiming to of...

Data breach overview Sex toy maker Tenga notified customers of a data breach on Friday, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch. The Japanese company said...

A student admissions website used by families to enroll children into schools has fixed a security lapse that was exposing their personal information. The websi...

Background Newton Asare realized that AI agents were becoming more like teammates than mere tools, a point he discussed with TechCrunch. The insight came as As...

Rivian is rolling out a new companion app that lets owners control key vehicle functions directly from their Apple Watch, eliminating the need to pull out a pho...

OpenAI is partnering with Reliance to add AI‑powered conversational search to the Indian conglomerate’s streaming service JioHotstar. The feature, powered by Op...

Much of the conversation around AI today is focused on building cloud capacity and massive data centers to run models. Companies like Apple and Qualcomm are in...

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for tradition...

Sam Basu’s Journey to Amari AI Sam Basu quit his job as a senior software engineer at Google in early 2023, not long after OpenAI released ChatGPT. He tried a...

'Sam Basu’s Journey from Google Engineer to Customs‑AI Founder

In Brief !India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi L takes a group photo with AI company leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman C and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei R...

Freeform raised a $67 million Series B to scale its laser‑AI manufacturing platform. Funding round Executives at Freeformhttps://freeform.co/, a startup develop...

One of the most consequential decisions early‑stage founders have to make is who they will bring on as their founding team. The first five to ten employees will...

Investment Overview Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire chairperson of Indian conglomerate Reliance, unveiled the group’s ₹10 trillion about $110 billion plan to bu...

OpenAI partners with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 MW of AI‑ready data‑center capacity with plans to scale to 1 GW OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Gro...

India pitches itself as a global hub for applied artificial intelligence. OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI‑driven reasoning into the fintech...

Overview Etsy is selling Depop, a second‑hand clothing app popular with Gen Z and millennials, to eBay for $1.2 billion in cash, as announced in a press releas...

Def Con, one of the world’s largest and longest‑running hacking conferences, announced on Wednesday that three individuals linked to Jeffrey Epstein are no long...

Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real t...

Bluesky Integrates End‑to‑End Encrypted Messaging via Germ Network Bluesky has integrated new technology from the startup Germ Networkhttps://www.germnetwork.co...

SeatGeek integrates with Spotify for ticket sales SeatGeek announced a new integration with Spotify, bringing a seamless ticket‑buying experience to Spotify us...

!Image Credits: Amazonhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/about-amazon-hero-20230227-amazon-288.jpg?w=1024 Blue Jay Project Halted Amazon has halt...

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Mastodon, a decentralized, open‑source social media platform and alternative to larger apps like X and Threads, announced plans to make its app more approachabl...

In Brief The data breach that hit blockchain‑based lending giant Figure affected nearly a million customers, according to a security researcher. !Michael Tannen...

Fei‑Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from Autodesk as part of a larger $1 billion funding round backed by AMD, Emerson Collective, Fide...

Google on Wednesday introducedhttps://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/google-pixel-10a/ its latest entry‑level Pixel smartphone, the Pixel 10a....

Overview Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales with an audiobook feature that lets you sync your listening and offline reading p...

Overview Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales, which included an audiobook feature that lets you sync your listening and your o...

X recently introducedhttps://x.com/nikitabier/status/2023533791122465274?s=46&t=sVvVqfqtrpFRLF39Bfwg9w a new immersive video player, signaling another major ste...

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music generation feature to the Gemini app, powered by DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music generation mode — currently in...

Google adds music‑generation capabilities to the Gemini app Google announced that the Gemini app will now include a music‑generation feature powered by DeepMin...

Snapchat+ Reaches 25 Million Subscribers, Driving Direct Revenue ARR to $1 B Snap’s direct‑revenue business has hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, t...

Background Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable host of AI‑powered marketing tools being s...

The internet today has a permissions problem. As non‑humans — chatbots, AI agents, and automated systems — have proliferated on the web, so has the need to prov...

In Brief Posted: 6:44 AM PST · February 18, 2026 !In this photo illustration, the Microsoft Copilot logo is seen in the background next to a silhouette of a pe...

OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and moving into the country’s higher‑education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions. The mo...

Creative company Canva ended 2025 on a high note with a 20% increase in monthly active users, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools. R...

Fei‑Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk. The partnership will see the two companies collaborating to e...

Indian AI company Sarvam plans to bring its newly released AI modelshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/indian-ai-lab-sarvams-new-models-are-a-major-bet-on-the-vi...

Heron Power, founded by former Tesla executive Drew Baglino, announced a $140 million Series B round to build gigawatts of solid‑state transformers for data cen...