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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Japan-Go-.png?resize=1200,785″] Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers. Go, which went public Tuesday, plans to use…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/spacexipo-nasdaq.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Despite the fact that AI increasingly dominates our economy (it’s a hot IPO summer and we’re all just along for the ride), most Americans are not particularly optimistic about the technology’s long-term impact on the country, a new study from Pew Research reveals. In fact, although a whole lot of Americans increasingly…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Google-Home-Speaker-Berry.jpeg?resize=1200,899″] After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first audio device built specifically for Gemini with the $99.99 Google Home Speaker. The new Google Home device is the first stand-alone smart speaker from the tech giant since…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1468360413.jpg?resize=1200,857″] As global investors race to fund the infrastructure underpinning the artificial-intelligence boom, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s CPP Investments has committed up to ₹70 billion (about $741 million) to Indian data center operator CtrlS, betting on India’s growing role in the global buildout of cloud and AI infrastructure. Under the partnership announced…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ask-pinterest.jpg?resize=1200,922″] Pinterest on Wednesday announced a new experimental app called “Ask Pinterest” that will allow the company to explore a more conversational approach to shopping and product discovery that could eventually find its way to the main Pinterest app. It also introduced other AI initiatives, including Pinterest Model Context Protocol (MCP), designed for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-477672484.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that generates anonymous email addresses under the @icloud.com domain, which then forward…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-1244294229.jpg?resize=1200,675″] SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday — its first full day of trading. Tuesday’s news that SpaceX…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/qualcomm-layoff-san-diego.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform won’t be a phone. To power that vision, Qualcomm…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fifa-world-cup-stadium-tv-camera.jpg?resize=1200,800″] A security researcher said she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms due to a simple security flaw, which allowed her to watch and have full control of the TV stream of every World Cup game.  The researcher, who goes by BobDaHacker, said she simply registered as a player agent on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/gemini-app-GettyImages-2276204472.jpg?w=1024″] Google on Tuesday released the final version of its Android 17 operating system, as well as its counterpart for smartwatches, Wear OS 7. The latest release, which arrives first on its own Pixel devices, is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop, bringing new features that include support for the latest AI models,…