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

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’ve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date. Gurman … Read more

What does this mean for a fall full of movies starring villainous tech CEOs?

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On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Richualist is one of TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 Companies!

This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children

Voice AI’s often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break

In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft’s CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.

Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?

The startup says its fuel cells are super efficient and cut fuel costs during a time when the tech industry can’t get enough electricity.

Cloudflare will use this acquisition to improve its Workers programming model and platform.

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Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition.

Anthropic said it “turned off live internet access” for “all our internal evaluations” until further notice.

Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.

TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

“The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about,” said founder Sara Tashakorinia.

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access … Read more

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

“When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us,” Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. “And we are wired to care for it in return.”

The name change is enough for Germany’s transport minister to start advocating for Europe-wide adoption of the driver assistance software.

Orkut’s founder is now taking aim at algorithms and AI-generated content.

Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.

Automattic’s interim chief financial officer Jeremy Klaperman has left the company less than a month after taking the role, TechCrunch has learned. Sources say his departure followed a demotion back to his previous position, marking another executive exit amid the organization’s leadership turmoil.

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