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The massive round was led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation from other returning backers.

The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.

Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.

The Trends Explore page for users to analyze search interest just got a major upgrade. It now uses Gemini to identify and compare relevant trends.

Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

The tech giant has pledged to be a "good neighbor" as it continues to invest in AI infrastructure throughout the country.

The company said it took only five months to go from $200 million to $330 million in annual recurring revenue.

The bundle includes access to Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad, as well as Motion, Compressor, and MainStage on Mac.

Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

Hupo, backed by Meta, pivoted from mental wellness to AI sales coaching for banks and insurers, and secured a $10M Series A led by DST Global

We tried Amazon's new AI wearable Bee. It's not for pro users yet, but more features are expected this year.

Amazon explains where its wearable Bee fits in and whether it will merge with Alexa.

Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare is unveiled about a week after OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Health product.

Amazon is counting on its Alexa footprint to help it gain traction in the consumer AI race.

French defense tech company Harmattan AI is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation, which is best known for making the Rafale fighter jet.

This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries.

An intellectual property lawyer says OpenAI is "putting itself at great risk" with this approach.

CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird, and relevant (and some not so relevant) tech, and of course the people working on it. AI has been a...

CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird, and relevant (and some not so relevant) tech, and of course the people working on it. AI has been a...

Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval Stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain.

AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don't know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.

Spangle has raised $15 million in a Series A round to expand its AI-generated shopping experiences.

Gmail is also bringing several AI features that were previously available only to paid users to all users.