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To find out whether Alexa is still the best smart assistant for my family, I'm going to test Amazon's AI-powered devices, experiment with AI queries, and write out my thoughts in a multi-part series.

Google is also offering students in the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil a free one-year subscription to its AI Pro plan.

GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Josh Gruenbaum in a statement encouraged “other American AI technology companies to follow OpenAI’s lead and work with us.”

Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code...

Lava is a digital wallet that lets merchants use credits to facilitate transactions.

Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful...

The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one...

This is on top of Apple's previously announced plan to invest $500 billion into the U.S. over the next four years.

Instagram notes that location sharing is off by default on Instagram Map, and a user's location only updates when they open the app, meaning it doesn't provide real-time location updates.

Tinder will redesign and debut college-specific features, like searching for people within the college, to appeal to younger users.

Canadian AI firm Cohere aims to alleviate data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and their...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping "tens of millions of dollars" worth of...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 marks 20 years of shaping the startup world — and tonight’s your last chance to save up to $675 on your ticket. From October 27–29, Disrupt returns to Moscone West in San...

Celebrity Lockets is a new feature where celebrities can engage with their most loyal followers on their home screens.

Microsoft will bring OpenAI's new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, its platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open source...

Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for targeting big companies and their cloud-based databases.

European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more...

The AI sales automation startup raised fresh funds, led by CapitalG, just months after its last round.

This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.