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OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem for real this time

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

21 May 2026 1:58 am
IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed

Initially billed as an AI butler, Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.

21 May 2026 1:17 am
Teslas Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.

21 May 2026 12:02 am
Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app

20 May 2026 11:44 pm
Global EV market goes K-shaped as the U.S. gets left behind

EV sales have surged worldwide in every region but the U.S., posing risks for legacy and startup automakers.

20 May 2026 11:04 pm
OpenAI barrels towards IPO that may happen in September

A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI's structure, leadership and finances, OpenAI is reportedly back to prepping for its IPO.

20 May 2026 10:54 pm
Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information

Trump Mobile is leaking customers email and home addresses, but has not responded to people alerting the company of the data exposure, according to two YouTubers who said they verified that their leaked data is authentic.

20 May 2026 8:58 pm
Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI

In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products.

20 May 2026 8:44 pm
AI search startups are blowing up

AI search has quietly become one of the most attractive targets in consumer AI.

20 May 2026 8:34 pm
Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create six-minute songs

Stability Audio 3.0 small model can run on-device and generate two-minute long tracks

20 May 2026 8:30 pm
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in one week: Window to nominate and apply for the most promising startups ends May 27

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. Pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, get investor access, win $100K, plus more scaling perks. Nominate an early-stage founder or submit your startup here.

20 May 2026 7:30 pm
NanoClawcreatorturnsdown $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead

NanoCo, the company behind OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised a $12 million seed after a viral launch, the founders tell TechCrunch.

20 May 2026 7:30 pm
GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach, but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.

20 May 2026 6:55 pm
Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

Figma's new AI assistant will be first available on Figma Design

20 May 2026 6:30 pm
Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind

The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech out of the water.

20 May 2026 6:30 pm
Ask YouTube brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts

Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.

20 May 2026 11:15 am
Elon Musk said Sam Altman stole a non-profit but the trial showed he had similar aims

By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.

20 May 2026 1:41 am
Google takes a page out of Metas book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

Google is calling the new devices audio glasses, in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

20 May 2026 12:45 am
Googles Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.

19 May 2026 11:21 pm
With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.

19 May 2026 11:21 pm
How to use Googles new information agents

Google is launching AI-powered information agents that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

19 May 2026 11:20 pm
Google Search as you know it is over

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

19 May 2026 11:16 pm
Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

The updates signal Googles push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Googles Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video and thats just the start

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation starting with Omni Flash.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Googles release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAIs Codex, allowing developers or their AI assistants to build Android apps faster from the command line.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Googles new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet

The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Google just declared itself a contender in AI design

The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Googles AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
Googles AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

Google expands Gmails AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

19 May 2026 11:15 pm
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropics pre-training team

Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.

19 May 2026 9:13 pm
The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yangs Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling

The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible, founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.

19 May 2026 9:07 pm
Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack

The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.

19 May 2026 9:02 pm
US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web

The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.

19 May 2026 8:36 pm
Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had

Stilta announced Tuesday a $10 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round include YC and operators from companies like OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable.

19 May 2026 5:30 pm
Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business

Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.

19 May 2026 3:30 pm
OSHA probing worker death at SpaceXs Starbase site

The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites.

19 May 2026 3:25 am
SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude no PhD in computing required

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it.

19 May 2026 2:59 am
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.

18 May 2026 11:04 pm
NYC Health and Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people

The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics including fingerprints in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026.

18 May 2026 10:02 pm
Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients

The app is similar to a meeting notetaker: you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family and friends if you want to.

18 May 2026 8:56 pm
Amazons new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

Amazons Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.

18 May 2026 8:26 pm
Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom

The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not pay.

18 May 2026 7:12 pm
Apples Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats

Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.

18 May 2026 1:45 am
Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

A big theme in the trials final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.

18 May 2026 1:16 am
If youre giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe dont mention AI

It's tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.

17 May 2026 10:02 pm
TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

17 May 2026 9:35 pm