Google said Thursday it blocked a record 8.3 billion ads globally in 2025 — up from 5.1 billion the year before. But the company suspended far fewer advertiser accounts than that surge might suggest, raising questions about how it polices …
As of March, AI traffic to U.S. retailers’ websites rose by 269% over the previous 12 months, continuing the momentum during the holiday shopping season when AI traffic was up by 693%, according to new data released on Thursday by Adobe.
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Amazon is aiming to build-up its satellite business to offer internet and mobile phone services by spending $11.57bn (£8.5bn) on an acquisition of Globalstar.
The deal, announced Tuesday, will allow Amazon to get thousands of sa…
In recent weeks, the AI world has been a-buzz following claims made by leading firm, Anthropic, regarding its new model, Claude Mythos.
The company says it found the tool can outperform humans at some hacking and cyber-security …
LinkedIn’s Blake Lawit, the chief global affairs and legal officer of the Microsoft-owned professional networking site, confirmed in an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week that the company’s data shows a decline in hiri…
Africa’s leading talent accelerator ALX is creating vital pathways to jobs for young people across Africa, providing tech, AI, creative and entrepreneurship education at scale, while driving gender parity in tech-enabled careers. An NPO fu…
Google announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature to users in India. The feature lets users connect their Google accounts, such as Gmail and Google Photos, then ask Gemini questions to get personalized a…
Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across differe…
In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales. As of this week, the new feature is officially live in the U.S. and the U.K., allowing users to purchase physic…
Tesla is rolling out a new self-driving app that makes it easier for owners to subscribe to its Full Self-Driving software and see statistics on how — and how often — they use it. The app will display information about FSD, including multi…
YouTube announced this week that it will now hold back ads during livestreams if chat engagement is at its peak, and if users show support with Super Chat, Super Stickers, or gift purchases. Until now, the only way to avoid seeing ads was …
Denodo, a leader in data management, today released the results of The AI Trust Gap Report, a comprehensive global study revealing that the next frontier of artificial intelligence - Agentic AI - is facing a critical trust crisis.
As A…
Alarm bells have been ringing about how artificial intelligence (AI) will replace certain, if not most, future jobs. But this fixation on job loss may be asking the wrong question. The real issue is not whether AI will take jobs; it is abo…
The four astronauts who flew in Nasa's Artemis II mission around the Moon have splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after a flawless return.
The crew are now safely aboard a waiting ship and recovering from a nine-day voyage that t…
Microsoft is shutting down Outlook Lite on May 26, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and re…
OpenAI has acquired personal finance startup Hiro Finance, founder Ethan Bloch announced on Monday and OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch. The startup was backed by A-list fintech VC firm Ribbit, as well as General Catalyst and Restive.
Ter…
Microsoft is testing ways to integrate OpenClaw-like features into its existing Microsoft 365 Copilot tool. The new features, which the company confirmed to The Information, would be geared toward enterprise customers, with better security…
If you spot a Lucid Gravity SUV blinged-out with sensors — and a self-driving system developed by Nuro — driving around San Francisco, chances are that’s an Uber employee taking a ride.
Select Uber employees can now request a ride in a …
Snap has announced a new partnership between its AR-glasses-focused subsidiary, Specs, and chipmaker Qualcomm, as the company revs up for the release of its wearable later this year.
The Snapchat creator has been teasing the release o…
YouTube is raising subscription prices for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music in the U.S., the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday.
The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family…
France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. technology.
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After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft have returned to Earth, their mission around the Moon a success.
Integrity, the name of the crew’s spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, splashed down in the Paci…
Apple plans to sell its first smart glasses in 2027, with a possible unveiling at the end of this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Gurman has been reporting steadily on the evolution of the company’s smart glasses strategy, b…
In response to escalating concerns about child safety online, OpenAI has unveiled a blueprint to enhance U.S. child protection efforts amid the AI boom. The Child Safety Blueprint, which was released Tuesday, is designed to help with faste…
Instagram just introduced a small but useful update that people have been asking for forever: You can finally edit your comments.
The platform announced on Thursday that users now have the option to edit comments, which is a long-await…
Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012 — cutting them off from the Kindle Store and making them virtually unable to load any new content. The company set a cutoff date for May 20, 2026.
Amazon sent an…
Meta’s AI app has seen a sizable jump in installs following Wednesday’s launch of the company’s newest AI model, Muse Spark — its first model release under Alexandr Wang, the head of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs who was recruited from Sca…
OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan. Until now, plans were priced at: free (which now includes ads), an $8/month Go plan (that also includes ads), a $20/month Plus plan (a…
Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That’s the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some markets, WhatsApp.
The AI agent Poke launched publicly in March, allowi…
Instagram announced that it plans to restrict content for teen accounts based on 13+ movie ratings last October in countries including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The social network giant said Thursday tha…
Google and Intel announced an expanded multiyear partnership on Thursday for Google Cloud to continue utilizing Intel AI infrastructure and to keep developing processors together.
Google Cloud will use Intel’s Xeon processors, includi…
Spotify is introducing new controls that allow users to disable all videos in the app, the company announced on Thursday. The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says.
Sta…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a Kendrick Lamar diss track, if the rapper was a corporate-speak-talking CEO and not a poetic Pulitzer-prize winning musician.
Meaning, you have to kn…
Posting Voice Notes publicly on X may no longer be possible, but you can now share audio messages within X’s direct messaging system, X Chat, once again. The social network announced late on Wednesday that support for Voice Notes is now av…
The living room has become a central battleground for YouTube, as more people turn to television screens. Now the Google-owned platform is trying to make watching videos on TV more interactive, across formats like live and Shorts, new job …
Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier way to discover its large library of more than 300,000 movies and TV episodes.
While competitors like Netflix…
Over the past several months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countri…
Canva announced on Wednesday the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company. The financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Canva says…
Meta released an AI model on Wednesday called Muse Spark, which marks its “first step” toward an “overhaul of [its] AI efforts.”
Muse Spark is the inaugural model to come out of Meta Superintelligence Labs, which was created last year b…
The global conversation on AI regulation is moving quickly, but not along a single track and not under the control of any one bloc. What is emerging is a polycentric governance landscape in which different regions are experimenting with di…
Liquid C2, a business of Cassava Technologies, a global technology leader, has launched Africa’s first Partner Experience Centre powered by Google Cloud in Johannesburg, South Africa. The state-of-the-art facility is designed to em…
As organisations across Africa accelerate their AI-driven digital transformation, cyber attackers are moving even faster, exploiting new AI systems, data pipelines, and autonomous agents that were never designed with security in mind, acco…
After years of resisting, Google Chrome is finally adopting vertical tabs — a feature more recently popularized by the Arc browser, a predecessor to the AI browser Dia. Google announced on Tuesday that Chrome users will have the option to …
Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching a new photo editor with the ability to modify images through natural language posts. Both features are powered by x…
Apple’s first foldable iPhone is on track to debut in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The news follows a report from Nikkei Asia on Tuesday that raised concerns the…
Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work. In a previously leaked memo, the AI startup called the model one of i…
Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain productivity, companies are increasingly d…
As distributed energy resources (DERs) scale rapidly across Africa and globally, the pressure to design safe, compliant and grid-stable protection systems has never been greater. ABB, a global leader in electrification solutions fo…
In the U.S., discussions about top camera phones largely center around iPhones, the Samsung Galaxy series, and, lately, the Google Pixel. In contrast, people in Asia and parts of Europe get a wider range of choice with companies like Xiaom…
Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow, and others.
The app is free to download, and once its Gemma-based automat…
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