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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1231517365.jpg?w=1024″] Ask.com, the search engine and question-and-answer service formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. Ask Jeeves first launched in 1996 and, with its focus on answering conversational questions posed in natural language, was arguably a precursor to today’s AI-powered chatbots. For most of its 30-year history, however, it’s been overshadowed by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2239723841.jpg?w=1024″] Audiences will have to wait a few months longer to see “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew,” with the release date pushed back from Thanksgiving to February 12, 2027. In addition to relaunching “Narnia” on big screens and serving as writer-director Greta Gerwig’s first film since “Barbie,” “The Magician’s Nephew” also looks like the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1424498694.jpg?resize=1200,800″] AI dictation apps have come a long way in a short time. For years they were slow and inaccurate — unless you spoke with a particular accent and enunciated clearly. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have changed that, producing systems that can decipher speech more accurately while retaining…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1134037713.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Europe should be known for BottleCap AI, not bottle cap memes. With its tongue-in-cheek name, this Prague-based AI startup is one of the teams that VCs think you should know. It is not that European startups never cut through the noise — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of it. But there…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2259104536.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: the company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak up real-world data for autonomous vehicle (AV) companies — and potentially other companies training AI models on physical-world scenarios. Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber’s chief technology officer, revealed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/55242949643_f997627b64_k.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went from $2.8 million in revenue in all of 2024 to tracking toward what Masad describes as a billion-dollar annual run rate. At TechCrunch’s sold-out StrictlyVC event in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MuselyPharmacyBox.png?resize=1200,673″] Musely, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform, has secured over $360 million in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). The company specializes in compounded treatments for skin, hair, and menopause care. Musely co-founder and CEO Jack Jia told TechCrunch that when CVF investors reached out to him last year, he wasn’t…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2195752979.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand, predict, and adapt to human behaviors in complex and dynamic environments,” a Meta spokesperson…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Modular_Data_Center_2.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital and hedge funds, has a new plan to generate bigger returns on AI beyond its sizable stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and data center companies like Singapore’s DayOne and CoreWeave. It has launched a venture called Next Frontier to buy up land near…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/musk-court-2273245544.jpg?resize=1200,801″] Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model,…