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Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.

Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development. The startup has now raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its platform.

Brett Adcock's new AI startup is now valued at $6 billion by its investors.

The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.

The AI agents are coming. A lot of them.

Wayve's self-driving tech will show up in Stellantis vehicles in 2028.

Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.

Flipper Devices said that the new gadget is in development and the base model will cost under $350

The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts.

Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKRs Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.

The company said its plans will range from 1 GB over 7 days to 20 GB over 30 days. Initially, the launch will make the eSIM product available in 29 countries.

Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.

Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a 5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.