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Trending News: Still no AI-powered, ‘more personalized’ Siri from Apple at WWDC 25The AI policy playbook: What global startups need to knowFrom spatial widgets to realistic Personas: All the visionOS updates Apple announced at WWDC OpenAI claims to have hit $10B in annual revenueAt WWDC 2025, Apple introduces an AI-powered Shortcuts appApple introduces live translation across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone at WWDC 25Apple brings Apple Intelligence to the iPhone screenApple’s new Workout Buddy helps you sweat smarterApple debuts a new dedicated Games appCorporate AI adoption may be leveling off, according to Ramp dataApple lets developers tap into its offline AI modelsXRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a monthAnthropic’s AI-generated blog dies an early deathOpenAI updates ChatGPT’s voice mode with more natural-sounding speechQualcomm to acquire semiconductor firm Alphawave Semi for $2.4BMeta reportedly in talks to invest billions of dollars in Scale AILawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warnsTrump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rulesWill Musk vs. Trump affect xAI’s $5 billion debt deal?Week in Review: Why Anthropic cut access to WindsurfBuilding More Scalable GenAI Applications for Startups and DevelopersBuilding Your AI Engine: How OpenAI Works with StartupsThe best ways to build on top of foundation models, with DeepMind, Twelve Labs, and AmazonDisruption playbook: How to beat AI incumbents at their own gameAI startups take to the stage to pitch their companies to a panel of judges2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTOAnthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trustWhy investing in growth-stage AI startups is getting riskier and more complicatedFigure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conferenceInside Anthropic’s AI ambitions with Jared KaplanEleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain textHumans provide necessary ‘checks and balances’ for AI, says Lattice CEOAMD acqui-hires the employees behind Untether AIOpenAI’s marketing head takes leave to undergo breast cancer treatmentCursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARRPerplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO saysAnthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and roboticsGoogle says its updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is better at codingThe founder of DeviantArt is making a $22,000 display for digital artAnthropic unveils custom AI models for U.S. national security customersCollibra acquires data access startup RaitoTechCrunch Sessions: AI launches in Berkeley today — here’s what you’ll miss if you’re not hereToma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16zX changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its contentAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plansNorth America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environmentHugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBookKlarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer serviceReddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training dataSnap launches Lens Studio iOS and web apps for creating AR Lenses with AI and simple toolsAMD takes aim at Nvidia’s AI hardware dominance with Brium acquisitionUnity CTO Steve Collins steps down after six monthsGoogle delays rollout of its ‘Ask Photos’ AI search featureChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and moreRosebud lands $6M to scale its interactive AI journaling appMistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral CodeTechCrunch Sessions: AI begins tomorrow — today’s your last chance to save on ticketsObvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe driversFinal hours for TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — play now, score 2-for-1 ticketsOne of Africa’s most successful founders is back with a new AI startup and already raised $9MWindsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI modelsAnthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversightThe OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movieYoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety labInside TechCrunch Sessions AI: Learn how Toyota and NLX use AI to parse millions of tech docs, with NLX CEO Andrei PapanceaDeepSeek may have used Google’s Gemini to train its latest modelDay 6 of 7: TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — flex your brain, score 2-for-1 tickets4 days left: Time — and space — are almost up to exhibit at TechCrunch All StageWispr Flow releases iOS app in a bid to make dictation feel effortlessJust 2 days until TechCrunch Sessions: AI at UC Berkeley — where the future of AI takes shapeConsole raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AIMicrosoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generatorFormer DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg co-leads $15.5M Series A for AI video ad platformChatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feedsDigg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI eraSnowflake to acquire database startup Crunchy DataSalesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiringIBM acquires data analysis startup Seek AI, opens AI accelerator in NYCHow AI chatbots keep you chatting5 days left to claim your exhibitor table for TechCrunch All Stage Major record labels are reportedly in licensing talks with AI firms Udio and Suno3 days until the doors open at TechCrunch Sessions: AI at UC BerkeleyDay 5 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Test your knowledge, win big ticketsSamsung may incorporate Perplexity’s AI tech in its phonesFor the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-workerEarly AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollupsSam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’4 days to go: TechCrunch Sessions: AI is almost in sessionDay 4 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Flex your brain, score big on ticketsVideo game union announces first contract with MicrosoftNAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessmentsSerious About AI? The conversations that count start in 5 days at TechCrunch Sessions: AIGoogle quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locallyDay 3 of the TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Your next shot at winning bigIt’s not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of changeElon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the ‘find out’ stageTechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Ready to test your AI knowledge?Your last opportunity to vote on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 agenda lineup
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AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights. Systrom said the tactics represent “a force that’s hurting us,” comparing them to those used by social media companies to expand aggressively.  “You can see some of these […]

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