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AI

With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete | TechCrunch

In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling...

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In Brief

TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office | TechCrunch

TikTok is laying off 250 employees and closing its Nashville office, which housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation...

AI

Apple just taught your iPhone to finish your sentences, your photos, and your workflows | TechCrunch

Apple today announced a slate of new Apple Intelligence updates across its apps at WWDC 2026, including tab...

AI

Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system | TechCrunch

Microsoft on Monday launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event...

Disrupt 2024 Main Stage
Fundraising

Benchmark’s full partnership joins the main stage at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

What does one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture firms think founders are getting wrong? At TechCrunch Disrupt...

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Apps

Google Wallet now lets parents set up secure balances for their kids | TechCrunch

Google announced on Thursday that Google Wallet will now allow parents to set up a secure balance for...

AI

Apple will let you build workflows using AI in its new Shortcuts app | TechCrunch

Apple has leveraged AI to make its visual-scripting tool, Shortcuts, easier to use in iOS 27, in a...

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In Brief

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack | TechCrunch

After OpenAI recently admitted that one of its models had breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face,...

AI

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini | TechCrunch

After first unveiling its new AI-powered laptop, dubbed Googlebook, in May, Google on Monday said the new device...

Social

Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking | TechCrunch

This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they’ll try literally anything else —...