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Availability in Europe Tesla’s Full Self‑Driving Supervised driver‑assistance software is now available in Lithuania, becoming the second European country to a...

Airbnb Expands Into Hotels and New Travel Services Airbnb’s original model centered on connecting guests with private homes and apartments. Now the company is...

All that doom and gloomhttps://www.wsj.com/business/autos/detroit-automakers-take-50-billion-hit-as-ev-bubble-bursts-06a97414 about the state of the electric‑ve...

In Brief Posted: 10:24 AM PDT · May 20, 2026 !Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAIhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/GettyImages-221339...

Posted: 10:24 AM PDT · May 20, 2026 !Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAIhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/GettyImages-2213399157.jpg?w...

On Wednesday morning, Jeff Bezos said in an interview on CNBChttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/cnbc-exclusive-transcript-jeff-bezos-speaks-with-cnbcs-andrew-ross-...

President Trump’s namesake cellphone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, accor...

Layoffs Overview Enterprise software giant Intuit is letting 17% of its staff go—about 3,000 employees—as it seeks to divert resources toward embedding AI into...

Background Yesterday’s big news was Google’s plan to blow up its traditional Searchhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ in f...

New Stability Audio 3.0 Models Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0. The top...

Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0. The top model can generate professional...

New Stability Audio 3.0 Models Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0. The top...

Funding Round NanoCohttps://nanoclaw.dev/, the company behind the security‑focused OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed...

GitHub breach details GitHub, the developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed that it was hacked and that attackers stole data from approximately 3,800 in...

Overview Over the last few months, Figma has struck partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to bake in support for AI CLI tools like Claude Codehttps://go.skimr...

The Challenge of Ocean Visibility Oceans are vast, making it difficult for governments, shipping companies, and insurers to know exactly what’s happening on th...

Google is completely revampinghttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ its search experience, and that doesn’t stop at YouTube. L...

Google announced at its annual Google I/O eventhttps://techcrunch.com/tag/google-io/ on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI‑powered design and image‑gene...

Google isn’t finished infusing AI into your inbox. On Tuesday at their I/O 2026 developer conferencehttps://techcrunch.com/tag/google-io/, the tech giant announ...

At the Google I/O 2026https://techcrunch.com/tag/google-io/ keynote, Google revealed new agentic capabilities in Search TechCrunch articlehttps://techcrunch.com...

End-to-End Encrypted Voice and Video Calls Messaging platform giant Discord has switched on end-to-end encrypted voice and video messaging for every user. The...

Acquisition Overview Three‑year‑old Mach Industries has acquired solid rocket motor startup Exquadrum in a $50 million cash‑and‑equity deal, the Huntington Bea...

Background Shay Shwartz knows a lot about email phishing attacks. As a teenager, he made money as a hacker, but after getting caught at age 16, he realized he...

The jury’s speedy decision to rejecthttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/ Elon Musk’s lawsuit against...

The jury’s speedy decision to rejecthttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/ Elon Musk’s lawsuit against...

!Google smart glasses prototypehttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_1421.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: TechCrunch Google is getting back into the s...

Google is getting back into the smart glasses game. At Google I/O on Tuesdayhttps://techcrunch.com/events/google-io/, the company announced a new partnership wi...

Overview Google DeepMind is now linking Street View to Project Genie, its general‑purpose world model that can generate diverse, interactive environments. The...

Launch and capabilities Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model described as its strongest yet for coding and autonomous AI agents. Introduced at the...

Overview At the 2026 Google I/O keynote, Google announced new information agents in Search. These agents let users create, customize, and manage multiple AI as...

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI‑powered overhaul of Search centered around a...

In Brief Posted: 10:45 AM PDT · May 19, 2026 !Attendees visit the Google booth where a model of the Android logo is on display at CES 2023 at the Las Vegas Conv...

Overview Google announced at its annual Google I/O event that it is launching Pics, a new AI‑powered design and image‑generation app for Google Workspace. The...

Google announced at its annual I/O event that the Gemini app is receiving several major updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, a ne...

Google isn’t finished infusing AI into your inbox. On Tuesday, the tech giant announced an expansion of its “AI Inbox” functionality for Gmailhttps://techcrunch...

Overview Google announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web‑based Google AI Studio, reducing a process that traditionally takes weeks of...

Announcement Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co‑founded OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic’s pre‑training team. > “I’ve joined...

Light Phone Teams Up with Noble Mobile The trendy, minimalist Light Phonehttps://www.thelightphone.com/ is joining forces with Noble Mobilehttps://noblemobile....

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Incident Overview U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA may have avoided a sizable security breach thanks to a good‑faith security researcher who identified publicly...

Apple Intelligence‑Powered Accessibility Updates Apple announced a suite of new accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence, enhancing VoiceOver, Voic...

Survivor 48 Winners Launch Paprclip – A “Social Accountability” App On Survivor season 48, Kyle Fraser’shttps://www.instagram.com/kylefrasr/ alliance with cast‑...

Like many young people of her generation, Fai Nur was what she called a “chronically online teenager.” She obsessed over music groups, TV shows, and movies, and...

Background Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched his first startup, building machine lea...

Solar will become the largest source of power in the next decade, surpassing coal, oil and natural gas, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The tectoni...

Incident A worker died at SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in South Texas on Friday, May 15, around 4:17 a.m. local time. The victim has not been identified. The...

Introduction Drug discovery is one of the most expensive failures in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions, and...

Acquisition Details Anthropic announced on Monday that it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray. Stainless’s softwar...