The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us, and it is shaping up to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI—who deserves c...

Snapchat announced that it’s rolling out AI Sponsored Snaps, allowing users to interact directly with brands’ AI agents. Sponsored Snaps are ads placed in the a...

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Update Overview Amazon announced a software update for both the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft that introduces dark mode and new note‑taking tool...

On Tuesday, Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O’Malley released a new open‑source tool called Tank OS to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenClaw ag...

Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Overview Ridiculous? Yes. Awesome? Also yes. The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo was my pick for the best laptop of CES: it had...

AI meeting notetaker apps have realized that transcribing meetings and providing summaries alone is not enough to justify their business models and valuations....

Google has signed a classified deal that allows the U.S. Department of Defense to use its AI models for “any lawful government purpose,” according to The Inform...

Summary Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug‑finding systems at...

Unionization Effort Developers of Magic: The Gathering Arena at Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast are set to join the Communications Workers of America CW...

The last few weeks have bordered on overwhelming for science fiction fans. While Project Hail Mary is dominating the box office, For All Mankind is currently in...

Overview Google is extending AI‑driven search to more of its products, and the latest test target is YouTube. The experimental feature, called Ask YouTube, let...

Overview Logitech has announced a new suite of Productivity Plugins for its entire MX line of accessories, including its Stream Deck alternative, the MX Creati...

Overview Logitech’s newest flagship keyboard, the G512 X, packs a range of advanced components that make it one of the most configurable gaming keyboards to da...

Background The pet food aisle has never been more crowded, which is exactly why Hillary Coles was skeptical when Atomic Labs approached her. Coles co‑founded H...

Overview Google is testing an AI Mode‑like search experience for YouTube. The company describes it as “a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a co...

AI Features Planned for Ubuntu One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to receive an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, V...

President Donald Trump is calling for Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel. On Thursday, Kimmel joked that Melania Trump had looked like an “expectant widow” in a skit a...

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichi demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, reports...

Incident Overview On Saturday evening, a room full of journalists, media personalities, and senior members of Donald Trump's administration descended into chao...

Release Details Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its fourth season on Paramount Plus on July 23. The ten‑episode season will air weekly until Septembe...

A man accused of carrying out cyberattacks on behalf of the Chinese government has been extradited to the United States and faces over a decade in prison if con...

Overview There's something deeply relaxing about chucking on a solid pair of headphones, listening to some good music, and cleaning muck off structures and veh...

Partnership Update OpenAI is opening up its partnership with Microsoft in the latest amendment to the major multi‑year collaboration between the tech giants. T...

Overview OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership‑turned‑situationship just got even less committed. A clause about artificial general intelligence, which for years...

Skye — an iPhone app still in private testing — aims to change how people interact with AI on their smartphones. Even before its public launch, the startup has...

Overview Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high‑stakes trial that could reshape the future of OpenAI, the leading AI startup. Jury selection be...

Whether it's managing a busy home or looking out for everyone around them, moms spend a lot of time every day caring for others. Mother's Day, May 10th, is an o...

Issue Overview One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs. The Magic Layers feature – designed to break flat imag...

Overview ZSNES, the iconic Super Nintendo emulator that debuted in 1997 for DOS, has returned after 20 years of dormancy. The original developers, zsKnight and...

Background Meta announced in December 2025 that it would acquire Manus, an agentic‑AI startup founded by Chinese engineers and later relocated to Singapore. Th...

!The OpenAI logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen.https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2206295463.jpg?w=1024 OpenAI’s Hardware...

Meta has signed an agreement with the startup Overview Energy to explore beaming infrared light from space to solar farms that power data centers at night. Cont...

Theo Baker is graduating from Stanford this spring with something most seniors don’t have: a book deal, a George Polk Award that he received for his investigati...

Manitoba proposal to ban social media and AI chatbots for youth Manitoba could become the first province in Canada to establish a ban on social media and AI ch...

President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference while flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin at the Whit...

Before Coachella, Tomora wasn't on my radar at all. It was actually only by chance that I stumbled upon them—I opened the wrong stream because my TV was lagging...

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How it started Under David Zaslav's leadership, WBD got very into the practice of shelving its own nearly completed projects in order to cash in on subsequent...

Background Two months after the deadly shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman formally apologized for not informing police about al...

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Background In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcem...

Canadian AI startup Coherehttps://techcrunch.com/tag/cohere/ is taking over Germany‑based Aleph Alpha with support from Schwarz Group parent company of grocery...

Every major tech conference has themes. Most are vague enough to mean everything and nothing at the same time. SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026https://sushitech-startup.me...

Synopsis Caroline Bicks' Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King tells how, after being named the University of Maine’s inaugural Stephen E...

For a while there, it seemed like Double Fine might be struggling under the Microsoft corporate umbrella. The game studio led by Tim Schafer is beloved for offb...

Engadget’s hottest reviewhttps://www.engadget.com/reviews/ roundup truly has it all this week: a new pocket cam, a 2‑in‑1 smart grill, a pair of drones and a pr...

Sho Miyake in the United States Acclaimed Japanese director Sho Miyake has arrived in the States. He's brought with him two feature films: Small, Slow But Stea...