Google’s AI Overviews are no longer a novelty feature tucked behind certain queries. New data reported by TechCrunch suggests they now appear in 43% of searches—an inflection point that changes how discovery works on the world’s most-used search engine. For…
A new kind of “digital wellbeing” product is trying to solve a problem that most screen-time tools only partially address: the moment you reach for your phone, your brain is already negotiating. Timers, reminders, and app limits can help—until the…
Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab associated with Ilya Sutskever, has ended its two-year stealth period with a move that signals both ambition and urgency: a long-term partnership with Nvidia. The announcement, reported by TechCrunch, frames the relationship as a practical…
The AI boom has a familiar rhythm, even if the product is new. It arrives with a bright, simple promise—smarter software, faster research, automated work that used to take teams—and then it spreads outward into everything that has to exist…
Enigma’s $70 million seed round is being framed as a UX story, but the ambition behind it is far bigger than “making robots easier to use.” The company is betting that the biggest barrier between advanced robotics and everyday deployment…
Nvidia has joined Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and a growing list of other technology companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance—an effort aimed at building and sharing open-source tools designed specifically for AI security. The alliance’s central claim is straightforward…
AI companies are no longer just competing in research papers, product launches, or cloud capacity. Increasingly, they are competing in Washington—through lobbying budgets that have reached record levels and through a more deliberate effort to shape the federal rules that…
Publishers have always chased speed and scale, but the current debate in book publishing feels different—not because artificial intelligence can now draft text, but because it is forcing an uncomfortable question about what a “book” is supposed to be. Is…
Physical AI has always been sold as a vision problem: give the model enough video, enough labels, enough compute, and it will learn to act in the real world. But anyone watching the frontier closely knows that “video” is only…
Moonshot AI’s Kimi has become one of those rare products that doesn’t just arrive—it jolts. In the latest episode of Equity, TechCrunch’s podcast team tried to unpack why a Chinese AI assistant can trigger such visible unease across Silicon Valley…
In the wake of what industry leaders are calling the first “autonomous agent cyberattack” at scale, the Hugging Face CEO has urged the AI community to adopt “radical transparency” as the default response. The call comes after an “unprecedented” incident…
Organizations evaluating Chinese “open” AI models such as Kimi K3 are often pulled into a familiar debate: where the model comes from, what it might contain, and whether its use creates geopolitical or compliance exposure. But the more practical risk—one…