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OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

Opus 5.5s biggest tell is the word dependable, which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.

When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he doesn't see rows of cars he sees millions of dollars just sitting there, depreciating. Come see MyMonthlyCar in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15 in San Francisco.

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.

Shopifys new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.

The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.

The CEO promised to get more specific about his vision. But the details are still absent.

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

The compact Bluetooth remote is designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle.

The new Kindle lineup features its lightest and thinnest designs yet, with a sleek, front-flush display that eliminates bezels for good.

The glasses stem from the startups goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.

Spotify founder Daniel Eks Neko Healthraised $700 millionto build a business around scanning your body, butitsnot the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney isbuilding its own body scanner, whileFunction Healthhas also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform.Why areinvestors bettingso bigonthiscategory? On this episode of TechCrunchsEquitypodcast, []

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

Theres a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI and its not because the tech isnt good enough.

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a users Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalists account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations

BAG Ventures announces close of a $11.3M Fund I to invest in all things AI.

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name dot.com, which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.

Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the largest tech companies.

EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.

The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital expenditures.

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.

Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.

Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks.

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multi-step business workflows.

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plugins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.

America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.

Instinct founder said the platform is growing 10% day by day, with transaction volume increasing at a similar rate.

Uhura Bionics, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Battlefield 200, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carries emotions.

The postponement of the IPO will delay some of the company's plans for its proceeds from the IPO, as well as those of its shareholders.

The former Yahoo CEO is introducing a new AI personal assistant based entirely on your photos.

The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers.

Apple says the bug was used to attack specific targeted individuals running iOS 26, which the majority of Apple customers are still using.

Fireflies said that it won't charge extra for the new dictation feature, which can be used with any desktop app.

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.

Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCrunch learned exclusively.