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AI

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down? | TechCrunch

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Apps

Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings | TechCrunch

Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities,...

AegisAI co-founders Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo
Security

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing | TechCrunch

Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary...

AI

ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok | TechCrunch

Society has spent a lot of time bemoaning our digitally addled minds and goldfish-like attention spans, pointing the...

Copilot for Gaming for Xbox
AI

Xbox debuts a new AI-powered gaming companion for mobile users | TechCrunch

Ahead of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Xbox revealed on Thursday that it’s experimenting with an AI-powered gaming...

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In Brief

Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts | TechCrunch

Embattled surveillance technology company Flock Safety unveiled a “generous” severance package for voluntary employee departures on Friday, according...

This illustration picture shows the AI (Artificial Intelligence) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI App in Vaasa, on June 6, 2023.
In Brief

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux | TechCrunch

ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s one place where it’s been notably absent: the Linux...

AI agent concept with robot inside a laptop with a voice bubble on red background.
In Brief

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia | TechCrunch

Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia,...

An image of a woman holding a cell phone in front of the Siri logo displayed on a computer screen.
AI

Apple’s long-awaited AI Siri overhaul is finally here | TechCrunch

Two years after promising but failing to launch a smarter Siri, Apple unveiled its overhauled AI-powered assistant at...

A split screen illustration featuring the logos of Hugging Face and OpenAI.
Security

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch

On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems...