Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination | TechCrunch
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? | TechCrunch
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
Gemini 3.5 Pro was supposed to launch in June, but it’s still not out.
Google has been working on beefing up the model’s skills, “particularly in coding,” Bloomberg reports. At I/O in May, Google said that 3.5 Pro was “already being used internally” and that “we look forward to rolling it out next month.” [Link: Google Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal Goals | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/google-gemini-launch-delayed-as-tech-falls-short-of-internal-goals | Bloomberg]
Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line | TechCrunch
DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models | TechCrunch
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B | TechCrunch
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
Lorde says AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.
Meta’s AI can now dub your voice in more languages on Instagram and Facebook.
The AI translations are expanding to Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Italian on Instagram and Bahasa, Indonesian, Arabic, French, Vietnamese, and Thai on Facebook, according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. [Media: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaxpKQfRaSV/]
Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer | TechCrunch
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash | TechCrunch
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter | TechCrunch
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI | TechCrunch
While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required election ads to disclose.
Amazon is reportedly trying to catch up in the AI agent race with “Moonraker.”
Business Insider reported that the project is focused on improving Alexa AI enough to handle more advanced, multi-step tasks, like Google, OpenAI and other AI leaders have been, but internal documents show its steep cost. [Link: Amazon documents reveal a costly new Alexa AI project | https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-moonraker-project-alexa-agentic-cost-2026-7 | Business Insider]
Why the rise of open source AI isn't hurting Anthropic ... yet | TechCrunch
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web
Anthropic is expanding its Claude Cowork to web browsers, iOS, and Android and adding cloud processing so you can continue tasks from different devices.
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.