Google's AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows | TechCrunch
Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
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Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others | TechCrunch
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions | TechCrunch
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is launching an update to Alexa Plus that will allow it to connect to a wider range of smart home devices and services.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business | TechCrunch
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
Amazon is cutting jobs on its AGI team.
In a statement to The Verge, Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke says the company is “eliminating some roles within parts of our AGI [artificial general intelligence] organization” as the company focuses on “initiatives that matter most for customers.” It’s not clear how many workers are impacted. [Link: Amazon cuts jobs in its artificial general intelligence group | https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-cuts-jobs-its-artificial-general-intelligence-group-2026-07-22/ | Reuters]
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.
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.
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.
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.