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Google announced on 20 October 2026 that it is upgrading the Gemini assistant in vehicles with a Personal Intelligence feature. The feature draws on data from Gmail, Google Calendar, YouTube, Maps, Google Search history and other connected Google services. It launches today in Android Auto and will reach cars with Google Built-in in the c…
Apple tightened its App Store developer guidelines over the weekend to ban apps that use AI to create offensive content. The update also targets apps that pass review as ordinary apps and later turn into nudify apps or surface those features prominently (a bait-and-switch tactic). Apps hosting user-generated content must filter objectiona…
General Motors announced an in-house OnStar AI Assistant that will debut in the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq EV, followed by a new OnStar mobile app in 2027. The app will replace the OnStar Guardian app and the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC brand apps. The announcement came at the GM Forward event and was reported by TechCrunch. It follows a …
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, disclosed on Saturday that attackers broke into an older system overnight and affected 1.4% of users of its online platform, OpenCode Console. Some of those users store API keys for AI services there. The company called it a "large-scale distillation attack", but skeptics say it was a straightforw…
GM announced its fourth-generation EV platform at its annual GM Forward event in New York. The platform is built around new battery chemistries, revamped electric motors and a new central computing platform and electrical architecture. The Central Compute Unit (CCU) is 40 times more powerful than current systems and is expected to cut wir…
Walmart announced an Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents search its inventory and make purchases for shoppers, covering Walmart and Sam's Club. The announcement came as Amazon began blocking AI agents from making purchases, and as various travel and booking sites lock agents out entirely. CEO John Furner presented th…
A leaked Anthropic S-1 filing, reported by The Wall Street Journal and summarized by TechCrunch, says the company is struggling to secure enough cloud capacity from AWS, Google and Microsoft, which increasingly see it as a competitor. Anthropic expects to spend more than $750 billion on cloud contracts, some still under negotiation. It is…
Court records obtained by NPR show that TikTok employees repeatedly warned executives about risks the platform posed to minors, including sexual exploitation and exposure to suicide-related content. Employee depositions filed in March 2026 describe frustration with how leadership responded. Staff reportedly flagged minors appearing in sex…
On Tuesday Google released TorchTPU as an open-source project. It lets PyTorch AI applications run on Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and Google Cloud through a configuration change, with no application rewrite. A day earlier Amazon announced TorchNeuron, which ports PyTorch apps to its Trainium chip and AWS. Amazon is also submit…
Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in its 2021 Series A, according to Bloomberg. Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO, is said to hold about 2%. Anthropic is widely expected to go public before the end of the year, with top-end estimates valuing it at up to $2…
Laplace Intelligence, an Ann Arbor-based startup spun out of the University of Michigan, is building automated red-teaming for physical AI such as robots and autonomous vehicles. It is competing in Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt. The product pairs a high-fidelity, real-world-grounded simulation with AI agents that probe for…
Tolan, an AI companion app that helps users manage daily tasks, relationships and emotions, raised $30 million from Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew, according to Upstarts Media. The round doubles its total funding. The company did not disclose its valuation; PitchBook estimates it at more than $268 million with medium …
This is a business and finance item with no cyber threat content. Blackstone executive Jas Khaira, who leads the firm's San Francisco AI hub Blackstone N1 (BXN1), said at TechCrunch Disrupt that concerns over AI infrastructure debt are overblown. Rising interest rates, wider credit spreads and the roughly $50 billion in CoreWeave debt hav…
A growing number of developers and consumers are using AI coding agents, chiefly Claude Code, to remove sponsored ads, tracking features and preinstalled bloatware from smart TVs. Two GitHub projects, dumbtv (Muzzammil Yasin Sabuwala) and cleanyourtv (Gathin T.), package this approach. Cleanyourtv reportedly spread to a few thousand users…
This is not a cybersecurity incident. It is an interview-based report from TechCrunch Disrupt with the five partners of venture firm Benchmark. The partners discuss the firm's $2 billion raise across two funds this summer, including a $1.25 billion growth fund. They say they will keep a pace of two or three new investments per partner per…
Recursive, an AI startup led by CEO Richard Socher, released its first model, Flint, on 21 October 2026. It is a free coding model that runs locally on a laptop. The company says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, contributed to nearly every stage of development, which let a small team build the model in under four months.…
