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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/google-logo.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Google is updating search to refine its AI experience by adding additional context to links, like excerpts from web forums and blogs, as well as a feature that highlights links from a user’s news subscriptions. While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Genesis-AI-Rubiks-Cube-Solve-A-Cam.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, and it comes with surprise hands. In a demo video, the company showcased various advanced tasks performed by a set of robotic hands it has designed in-house. “The model…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/tinder-icon-ios.jpg?resize=1200,674″] You might think the big story out of Match Group’s first-quarter earnings is Tinder’s turnaround. The dating app’s revenue is slightly up again after quarter-after-quarter of declines. But we’d like to point to a comment the chief financial officer made about how the company is slowing its hiring right now because it…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/apple-on-phone.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit over how it marketed its AI features ahead of the launch of the iPhone 16. The Financial Times was the first to report the news.  The lawsuit alleged that Apple exaggerated the breadth of features Apple Intelligence would bring,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-23.18.12.jpeg?resize=1200,812″] When companies are looking for opinions or advice on a project, they tend to go to LinkedIn or use expert networks such as GLG, Third Bridge, or AlphaSights. But they often don’t find quality inputs, despite their searches. Today, these sites ask experts to fill in a form based on their job…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Aurora-Mclane-autonomous-trucks.jpg?resize=1200,750″] Aurora Innovation will start hauling loads in driverless trucks for distribution giant McLane, the latest company to adopt the startup’s autonomous vehicle technology following a multi-year pilot program. Under the commercial agreement announced Wednesday, trucks outfitted with Aurora’s self-driving system will be used to transport goods between Dallas and Houston. These trucks…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Disrupt-2025-Builders-Stage-Crowd.png?resize=1200,800″] The year keeps moving swiftly, and so is all of our planning for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! We have an exciting new panel in store for founders in need of merger and acquisition advice … but first, we have a limited-time ticket offer to share. Disrupt will once again be held in San Francisco’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/27055664959_5fbe947d9b_o.jpg?resize=1200,799″] Three days. That’s all that’s left to decide, not just whether you’ll be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, but also who you’ll show up with from October 13 to 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West — and how much credibility you gain from the opportunity. Right now, you can buy one pass and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. That…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Samsung-logo.webp?resize=1200,799″] Samsung reached a $1 trillion valuation on Wednesday as shares of the South Korean tech giant surged more than 10%, driven by the ongoing artificial intelligence frenzy fueling demand for chips. The milestone makes Samsung only the second Asian company to cross the trillion-dollar threshold, after TSMC. The news comes on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mustache-1295262500.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Some age-verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites. U.K.-based nonprofit Internet Matters surveyed a thousand children about age-verification checks online, and about half said that age checks were easy…