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I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and Im literally speechless, one shopper wrote on Threads.

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.

Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.

Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.

The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.

It's the latest in a string of deals meant to grow Uber Eats into a food delivery behemoth.

The deal brings together two major streaming platforms, Paramount+ and HBO Max, along with networks including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, and Food Network.

Meta is testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video when they open the app, putting Reels front and center.

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build AI factories, a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflections AI models on their own proprietary data.

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.

TechCrunch attended Pears latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI.

Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.