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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/meredith-whittaker-1.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.” Whittaker made those comments in a broader interview with Bloomberg about policy, privacy, and Signal. She acknowledged that she uses AI…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1278815846.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t the canonical source of information that it used to be, with just as many people learning about…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-20-at-5.40.30-PM.png?resize=1200,650″] Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that doesn’t usually come up at a venture event: How do you know if a fish is stressed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2148577076-e1728469833661.jpg?resize=1200,676″] John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic after “nearly 9 years” at Google DeepMind. In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Apple-services-hero_big-1.jpg.large_2x.jpg?w=1200″] While Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence announcements dominated the WWDC spotlight earlier this month, the tech giant also packed iOS 27 with a number of upgrades across its everyday apps and services, including smarter bill splitting in Apple Wallet, new ways to share locations in Find My, and improved Apple…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/donald-trump-open-mouth.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Last Friday, citing unspecified national security concerns, the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict the export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside of the United States, as well as foreign nationals inside the country. Shortly after, the AI giant hastily pulled the plug on both models, which…

[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…