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Apps

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine | TechCrunch

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform. The company announced on...

AI

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening | TechCrunch

Apple is trying to get consumers to accept, and even welcome, a new reality: Your tech is always...

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Apps

LinkedIn adds new tools to fight fake profiles and bogus work histories | TechCrunch

AI has made it significantly easier for people to create fake accounts and identities to engage in onlinemanipulation...

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AI

Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari joins the Disrupt 2026 lineup | TechCrunch

What happens when the app you started in high school goes viral?For Zach Yadegari, the answer was more...

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Apps

Let’s explore the best alternatives to Discord | TechCrunch

Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of...

Joshua Kushner, Founder and CEO, Thrive Capital
Venture

Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria | TechCrunch

In Thrive Capital’s first-ever investor letter, founder Joshua Kushner has some unexpected things to say about his venture...

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Climate

Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory | TechCrunch

Plastics recycling startup MacroCycle announced a new deal with Meta on Tuesday that will help speed the development...

Apps

Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster | TechCrunch

I was yelled at by a rooster this morning. And no, I don’t live on a farm. The...

Hardware

Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch | TechCrunch

Apple on Wednesday unveiled its latest iPhones and Apple Watches at its first fall event under newly appointed...

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Security

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data | TechCrunch

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal group known for large-scale data theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI...