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The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.

Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature.

WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.

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With the additions, the app is borrowing features from messaging apps as it looks to deepen engagement on its platform.

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

Zoox is expanding to this critical ride-hailing destination a few weeks after it started charging for robotaxi rides.

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.

If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.

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