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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company said Monday in a blog post. The filing comes a little more than week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms. OpenAI, which was last valued at $852...

Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to see AI as just one part of a broader effort to improve its software.

Apple is adding new AI-powered features to Safari, Shortcuts, and Password apps.

A new spatial "Reframe" feature will let users use AI to adjust perspectives.

Siri is finally getting its own app.

"If you're grabbing a bite with friends and point your iPhone at the bill, then [you can] select what you ordered to split the tab with Apple Cash," said Apple VP of Software Sebastien Marineau-Mes.

Apple’s WWDC 2026 event kicked off this morning at 10 a.m. PT at Apple Park, starting a week full of expected announcements around Siri, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more, along with developer events and demos. This year’s event is particularly notable for a couple things. It marks CEO Tim Cook’s ...

Apple’s WWDC 2026 event kicked off this morning at 10 a.m. PT at Apple Park, starting a week full of expected announcements around Siri, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more, along with developer events and demos. This year’s event is particularly notable for a couple things. It marks CEO Tim Cook’s ...

A new feature in the Amazon Shopping app allows users to generate designs with Alexa, then print them on products like T-shirts, hoodies, and tumblers.

Apple's WWDC nears: Here's what you can look forward to.

We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

Notion's head of product said he was "astonished" at “the amount of people RT-ing this."

"Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.

Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Now’s not the time to wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco's Moscone West.

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

"The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'"

In the current environment, remaining heads down has diminishing returns; at some point, you have to make some noise just to remind the market you exist.

Apple's WWDC nears: here's what you can look forward to.

Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.

If Alphabet's record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.

Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open-source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.