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The economist William Stanley Jevons.
AI

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web | TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services released an open-source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev, with AI developers increasingly seeking intelligence...

AI

Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI | TechCrunch

Shopify introduced a new site-building tool Thursday called Canvas that lets merchants set up their Shopify store by...

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears Orion augmented reality (AR) glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Meta Platforms Inc. debuted its first pair of augmented reality glasses, devices that show a combined view of the digital and physical worlds, a key step in Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's goal of one day offering a hands-free alternative to the smartphone. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Security

California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people | TechCrunch

California governor Gavin Newsom has used his veto authority to send a bill passed by the state’s legislature...

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
AI

Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system | TechCrunch

Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step...

AI

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents | TechCrunch

The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it...

AI

Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses | TechCrunch

Hearing tech startupLegato announced on Thursday that its flagship AI-based hearing glasses are now available for purchase. The...

In this photo illustration the logo of Amazon Audible is displayed on a smartphone
Media & Entertainment

Audible’s new features let you explore book worlds — and use AI to talk to characters | TechCrunch

Facing new competition in the audiobook market from Spotify, Audible is turning to AI and other technology to...

The Satlyt team, from left to right, engineer Leina Moli, founder and CEO Rama Afullo, engineer Junn Wangari, and CTO Nelson Psenjen.
AI

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites | TechCrunch

The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming.The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in...

A macro close-up photograph shows the Google Gemini AI app icon
AI

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet | TechCrunch

Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety...

Roelof Botha
In Brief

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation | TechCrunch

Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 million Series B...