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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
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
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
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
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
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
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis

Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech world's action.

17 May 2026 8:30 pm
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

17 May 2026 1:47 am
Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.

17 May 2026 12:56 am
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

17 May 2026 12:24 am
The offline desk gadget that actually got me to sit up straight

Deep Care's $350 device is pricy, but it runs offline and helps you improve your posture and movement habits

16 May 2026 9:30 pm
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

16 May 2026 9:03 pm
$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month

Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.

16 May 2026 8:30 pm
Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support

It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.

16 May 2026 7:30 pm