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The promise is AI that's uniquely helpful because it knows you. But the risk is AI that feels more like surveillance than service.

The move is a loss for homebuyers, who through Zillow had ready access to a property's climate risk scores from First Street.

Shopify was down for many merchants this morning, preventing them from processing transactions. It appears to be fixed now.

Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

From the time Brownlee launched Panels in September 2024, the app struggled to find an audience of its own. "We knew it was niche … and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Marques Brownlee said.

"I pinch myself going to work every day," one 51-year-old says of his new supervisor role overseeing 200 workers at a data center site.

New planned data centers promise to consume even more energy than expected. Meanwhile, a grid monitor is blaming such growth for high electricity prices.

Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer's service.

This year, the whimsical holiday app comes to iPhone and adds a snow effect for Mac users.

Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential. 

Deezer launched its version of Spotify Wrapped to give listeners an overview of their top tracks and artists.

The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble.

On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus wasn't used.

Adam Joseph was shocked when Mark Cuban replied to his email with an inquisition full of questions.

Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year.

The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures.

E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.

CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn't "in the space industry; we're in-space industry," he said. Space is "just another place to ship to."

James Cameron’s movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology, but that doesn't make him a fan of generative AI.

David Sacks’ role as President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar could work out very well for his investments, according to a new report. However, Sacks fired back, calling the story a "nothing burger."