The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cl…
Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators.
Meta first shared that it was working on Edits…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s AI research organization DeepMind, appeared to suggest Tuesday evening that Veo 3, Google’s latest video-generating model, could potentially be used for video games.
In response to a post on X beseeching…
Google is giving Workspace users a way to access “Gems” — customizable versions of its Gemini AI assistant that specialize in specific tasks — without opening the Gemini app. Gems are now available directly in the side panel of Google Do…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) deployed in the sewer system has helped prevent West Sussex homes from flooding, Southern Water says.
AI learns the normal behaviour of sewers and can tell the difference between morning and evening rushes…
Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting from users increasingly getting their news directly from AI or AI-powered search results, according to a report from digital m…
The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes.
Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part …
Nothing’s first pair of over-the-ear headphones has arrived, bearing the company’s signature retro-transparent design that it introduced with the Phone 1. But until now, that design has mostly been in your pocket or peeking out of your e…
Elon Musk's Tesla has reported a 14% decline in vehicle deliveries in the second quarter of the year, as the electric car-maker's problems show no sign of abating.
The just over 384,000 vehicles it delivered between April and June rep…
Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies — ideally giving publishers greater control …
It’s been more than a decade since Apple unveiled the original version of CarPlay. In that time, the system has become indispensable for countless drivers all over the world. But while new iterations of iOS have introduced user interface…
The Google graveyard has claimed another victim: the company has killed the Apple Watch version of its Keep app. While the note-taking app is still available for iPhone and iPad, the 2.2025.26200 Google Keep App Store update released on …
MrBeast has removed a YouTube thumbnail generator that used artificial intelligence (AI) after a backlash from creators.
The world's most-subscribed YouTuber, real name Jimmy Donaldson, released the tool last week and said his intenti…
Artificial intelligence programmes being piloted at Stockton Council are "fundamentally changing" how staff work, bosses have claimed.
The local authority is one of 25 testing AI systems which transcribe and summarise meetings.
Cou…
Even the best-written email may never reach its recipient if your authentication protocols aren't properly configured
In the fight against phishing, forward-thinking organisations are winning. But there's a twist. The heightened vigilan…
Google on Monday announced a series of updates intended to bring its Gemini AI and other AI-powered tools deeper into the classroom. At the ISTE edtech conference, the tech giant introduced more than 30 AI tools for educators, a version of…
Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities — like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI’s potential to boost GDP. But those gains are u…
AppsForBharat, the Indian startup behind the Hindu devotional app Sri Mandir, has raised $20 million in a new round — just over nine months after securing $18 million — as the app continues to attract not only devotees but also strong inve…
Apple is considering using AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic to power its updated version of Siri, rather than using technology the company has built in-house, according to a report from Bloomberg on Monday.
The iPhone maker continu…
Instagram announced Monday that it’s finally adding the ability for users to listen to previews of songs that they’ve shared from Spotify to Stories.
While Instagram has long allowed users to share Spotify songs to their Stories, it wou…
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Not long ago, a mid-sized Ghanaian business upgraded it accounting system to meet the Ghana Revenue Authority’s (GRA’s) new electronic VAT (E-VAT) requirement which was rolled out in May this year. The software was smart, i…
Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been uploaded to Facebook yet.
The feature is being suggested to Facebook users w…
TikTok is testing a new messaging tool called “bulletin boards,” the social network confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The feature lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers. Bulletin boards are pretty s…
Google is preparing to bring YouTube Create to iOS devices nearly two years after the video editing app launched exclusively on Android. Job listings reviewed by TechCrunch reveal the company is actively hiring engineers in India for the i…
Amazon-owned Ring announced on Wednesday that it’s introducing a new AI-powered feature to its doorbells and cameras, which offers users specific text descriptions of current motion activity.
Now, when users receive real-time notificati…
Google is launching a new agentic AI tool that will put its Gemini AI models closer to where developers are already coding.
The company announced on Wednesday the launch of Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool designed to run locally from you…
The overabundance of attention paid to how people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, sometimes even striking up relationships, often leads one to think such behavior is commonplace.
A new report by Anthropic, which makes …
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday. The platform is launching an AI-powered search results carousel similar to Google’s AI Overviews and …
Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets you build AI-powered apps right inside the app. The upgrade, launching in beta, builds upon Anthropic’s Artifacts feature introduced last year that lets you see and int…
After scrapping its XPS branding earlier this year, Dell has now launched two of the new “Premium” laptop models that are replacing it. Aside from being refreshed with Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 Arrow Lake processors, a slightly revised…
Demand for so-called "fast tech" - cheap electronic items often quickly binned or abandoned in drawers - is growing, a not-for-profit that works to reduce electronic waste has warned.
Material Focus singled out heatwave-fuelled demand…
A CCTV camera that uses AI technology is being trialled in an attempt to combat littering.
A pilot scheme run by East Riding of Yorkshire Council with Litter Cam involves a camera on the A164 near the Willerby Roundabout recording dri…
After first announcing it at CES 2025, the HDMI Forum is finally releasing the new HDMI 2.2 specification to manufacturers today. Although there is no definitive timeline for how long it will take hardware makers to adopt the new specifi…
Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first.
The research has been taboo until now because of concerns it could lead to designer babies or…
Jubilant Indians have been celebrating the successful launch of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission which has taken off with a multi-country crew, including an Indian astronaut.
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who's piloting the mission, has …
Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines.
Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the technology, an unwelcome bit of friction that coincides with rising costs in recent years. O…
The Apple Sports app, launched last year, is introducing tennis coverage ahead of Wimbledon, along with a redesigned home screen experience, Apple announced on Wednesday.
Users will now be able to access live tennis scores for Grand Sla…
Intel is shuttering its automotive architecture business and laying off most of its staff as part of a broader restructuring at the chipmaker.
The news was first reported by The Oregonian/Oregon Live, which cited an internal memo that w…
Data cybersecurity company Rubrik announced Wednesday its intent to acquire Predibase. Predibase is a venture-backed startup that helps companies train and fine-tune open source AI models to customize them to their needs. Rubrik is the lat…
Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat.
This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, …
Voice AI company ElevenLabs just released a stand-alone mobile app for iOS and Android users to generate voice clips from text.
Until now, if you had to generate samples using ElevenLabs’ AI-powered voice libraries, you had to rely on i…
Apple has taken down a new ad just one day after posting it, making it the fourth one removed in just over a year, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The nearly eight-minute-long ad, titled “The Parent Presentation,” featured comedian Mart…
Microsoft is starting to test its new aggregated gaming library in its Xbox PC app on Windows. Xbox Insiders will now be able to see their Steam and Battle.net games all within the Xbox app this week — making it a single launcher for mos…
Google Chrome’s web browser for Android devices is finally catching up to the notable design change that Safari made with the 2021 introduction of iOS 15: It’s offering a way to move the address bar to the bottom of the screen.
The comp…
TP-Link just launched a bunch of new security cameras for its Tapo smart home brand, including a 4K-capable line for outdoors and a slew of inexpensive pan and tilt cams that can be used indoors and out — all without any subscription fee…
Verizon is trying to streamline its customer service experience by overhauling it with more chatbots and AI tools. The My Verizon app is being relaunched today with a new “AI-powered Verizon Assistant” that aims to help consumers “manage…
More invites to Amazon’s upgraded digital assistant, Alexa+, powered by generative AI, have been steadily rolling out. The service, first announced in February, now reaches over a million users, Amazon confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Ho…
Leaked code suggests xAI is developing an advanced file editor for Grok with spreadsheet support, signaling the company’s push to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft by embedding AI copilots into productivity tools.
“You can tal…
With Monday’s release of iOS 26 Beta 2, Apple has fixed one of the more glaring issues with Liquid Glass, its divisive new user interface design for the iPhone, iPad, and other Apple devices, announced earlier this month at WWDC 2025.
T…
Andy Konwinski, computer scientist and co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, announced Monday that his company, Laude, is forming a new AI research institute backed with $100 million of his own money.
Konwinski announced the institut…