With help from its internal AI tools, Google says it has patched more security flaws in its Chrome browser in the last month than in the past two years combined. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in…
Australia banned social media for under-16s. Italy just built something Australia’s law doesn’t have: a place for teenagers whose digital habits were already unhealthy before any ban existed. Florence has opened Italy’s first youth digital addiction centre, and its focus on counselling and community support, rather than restriction, gives Australia a preview of a problem…
Critical coverage usually draws an angry email or two. For Ina and David Steiner, it led to live cockroaches, a fetal pig, and a bloody Halloween mask. On Monday, July 27, eBay and several former executives agreed to pay $55.7 million to resolve the couple’s lawsuit over the 2019 corporate harassment campaign. The Steiners are…
Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann welcomes me into his palace—what he calls his large apartment in San Francisco. He sits on the couch in his living room, clad in an orange shirt emblazoned with a cartoon version of the motorcycle driven by Italian racer Valentino Rossi. He props his feet up on the side table and…
Executive search firm Christian & Timbers estimates that there are only about 2,000 engineers in the U.S. with the special cocktail of sector know-how, gravitas, and hands-on applied AI experience needed to consistently help enterprises see a return on their AI expenditures. “Not 2,000 available,” reads the study, shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “2,000 total.” As…
China’s AI video industry is creating an unexpected new side hustle: licensing your face. Platforms such as ActID and New Claw are paying people to let producers use AI-generated versions of their likenesses in films, advertisements, and short-form videos. Rather than hiring performers for every shoot, creators can license pre-approved digital identities that can be…
TL;DR: Lego is livestreaming a demo of its new Pokémon Smart Play sets on July 31 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT, just ahead of the collection’s official Aug. 1 launch. If you’re the kind of person who still gets excited seeing Pikachu, Lego’s new Pokémon Smart Play sets are about to make…
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When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a $3.2 billion gain, boosting diluted earnings per share…
When an AI agent completes a task inside your enterprise systems, can you say with certainty which agent did it, on whose authority, and under what constraint? For most organizations, the honest answer is no. I’ve sat through enough incident reviews to know exactly what that uncertainty costs once something goes wrong. That gap just…
