Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that…
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Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform
The customer support industry has seen a massive influx of startups like Sierra, Decagon, and Parloa trying to infuse AI into automating customer calls, chat, and messages so companies can…
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Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings
Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and find event tickets.…
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Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multiyear partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The deal mirrors two trends shaping…
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Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce
Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson, and Shivaditya Sinha spent years building the behavioral intelligence infrastructure behind Spotify’s recommendation engine. Called Vector AI, the system is designed to predict a person’s intent…
Read article →Ford’s new electric truck, ‘Fathom,’ starts at $28,350
Ford’s next-generation electric truck will be called Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 when it goes on sale in 2027, the company said on Thursday. A “destination and delivery”…
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Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs
Suno, the service that allows users to create AI-generated songs, today announced new tools to mark tracks made on its platform, limit downloads, and update community guidelines to prevent copycat…
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eBay continues to bet on live shopping after record quarter
As eBay tries to keep up with competitors like Whatnot and TikTok Shop, the online marketplace is making a bigger push into live shopping after seeing record results. During its…
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OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case
OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, along with newly filed exhibits, reveals the company’s legal defense strategy. Rather than focusing on whether former Apple employees working at OpenAI…
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Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX said Thursday that “Terafab,” the advanced chip factory they are jointly developing, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, outside Houston, and that they will make an…
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