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  • Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/hero.jpg?resize=1200,704″] For years, your phone’s Camera Roll has served dual purposes. In addition to helping you revisit special moments, it has also served as an archive for all sorts of things you find online, like recipes, fashion inspiration, travel ideas, interesting quotes, funny tweets, product recommendations, and more. Today, a new app called…

  • DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1232015093.jpg?resize=1200,800″] DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” allows users to search the app for what they’re looking for in their own words instead of having to…

  • South Korea hits Coupang with $400M+ fine for data breach that affected millions

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Coupang_dawn_delivery.jpg?resize=1200,800″] South Korean authorities have imposed a record-breaking fine of $624 billion won (over $400 million) on retail giant Coupang after a data breach last year compromised the personal data of more than 34 million customers. Seoul’s Personal Information Protection Commission issued the maximum penalty on Thursday following discovery of the breach in…

  • Anthropic taps TCS to scale its enterprise AI deployments

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-12.11.34-PM.png?resize=1200,673″] Anthropic has partnered with Indian IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in a bid to accelerate adoption of its artificial intelligence models at enterprises. The partnership will see TCS creating a business unit focused on deploying Anthropic’s AI models to its customers. TCS will also gain early access to new model…

  • Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/opendoor.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Opendoor, the San Francisco-based online home-buying platform, is shutting down its India operations less than two years after expanding its presence in the country. The decision has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether AI is starting to alter the economics of offshore work. In announcing the decision on Wednesday, CEO…

  • Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dario-2280291125.jpg?w=1024″] If founders and other business leaders weren’t already envious of Dario Amodei, who sits atop one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies — currently valued by private market investors at roughly the trillion-dollar mark little more than five years after it was founded — they’re going to be seriously envious now. In…

  • xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/grok-getty.jpg?resize=1200,800″] A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX claiming he was fired for raising concerns about AI safety. Devin Kim, who left xAI in September 2025, filed the suit in a California state court on Tuesday. The complaint comes days before SpaceX is…

  • Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1239809807.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Loading the player… Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the…

  • Everyone wants a piece of Tesla’s battery business

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/gm-energy-rendering.jpg?resize=1200,800″] First Tesla, then Ford, and now GM — it seems every automaker wants a slice of the energy storage market. It’s easy to see why. While EV sales have stagnated in the United States, sales of large, stationary batteries have doubled in the past two years. And they show no signs of stopping.…

  • Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-2217247219.jpg?w=1024″] Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing. Amidst this flurry of activity, Amazon has signed a deal to borrow some $17.5 billion from a number of financial lenders, according to Bloomberg. The banks behind the loan reportedly include Citigroup, JPMorgan…