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AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don’t know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.

TechCrunch goes hands-on at the CES 2025 show with the new Clicks Communicator, a new Android smartphone with a physical keyboard.

Gmail is also bringing several AI features that were previously available only to paid users to all users.

Spangle has raised $15 million in a Series A round to expand its AI-generated shopping experiences.

Apple expects the transition to take 24 months

It sounds like “Oh hi.”

The settlements are among the first tied to lawsuits accusing AI companies of harming users.

Ford says the new generation of BlueCruise will be 30% cheaper to build than the current technology.

Bonatsos spent 15 years at GC, and until last year led the firm’s seed investing strategy.

Larry Page is reportedly moving assets out of California over concern the state will vote in a tax on billionaires.

Several viral posts noticed that Artisan was banned. But the CEO tells us it wasn’t for the reasons many thought.

At CES 2026, Anthony Wood, Roku’s founder, chairman, and CEO, offered a hint about the future of the company’s newest streaming channel, Howdy, and its ambition to become a broader competitor in the market.

The feature, which is expected to roll out in the coming weeks, will offer a dedicated space for conversations with ChatGPT about health.

The 25-year-old firm is an early investor in Anduril, Applied Intuition, and Runway AI.

As one of the show’s actors, Billy Magnussen, noted, “Silicon Valley is one of those times in our modern era which is defining humanity. And what better place to make a dark comedy than in that place that develops our society at this point?”

Discord reportedly filed confidential IPO paperwork and has pinned its hopes on a debut in March.

VC firms DST Global and Iconiq are piling into e-commerce startup Swap Commerce, which is going up against Shopify.

Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI.  Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. The question is, will legacy consumer products like WebMD and … Read more

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation, marking its third mega-round in a year.

Skylight, known for its digital picture frame, has a new digital product that puts software and AI at the center.

Google Classroom now offers a Gemini-powered tool that generates podcast-style audio lessons for teachers to deepen engagement with students.

Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia’s physical AI platform.

Quilt’s heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems.

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

The studio’s board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance’s revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a “leveraged buyout” that would saddle the company with $87 billion in debt.

Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

Articul8’s valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A.

Calacanis, General Catalyst’s Taneja, and McKinsey’s Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force.