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The new app lets anyone use Google's Nano Banana in a fun new way, with fill-in-the-blank AI "recipes" that users can share.

Perplexity is launching its AI browser Comet on Android with an iOS version in works.

The company says the new feature will allow users to quickly share their photos, videos, and files with without worrying about the kind of phone the other person uses.

Point One Navigation, now valued at $230 million, is building out well beyond automotive.

Daver is full of lessons for founders. Among them: "You have to repeat yourself all the time, and you have to say the same thing."

Famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy got early access to Google’s latest AI model and stumbled onto its "model smell."

YouTube users who are 18 and older in Ireland and Poland can now share videos directly on the mobile app.

The nine-engine variant can carry larger payloads and more closely matches the capabilities of SpaceX's largest rocket, Starship.

Letterboxd is entering the movie rental business with a new digital video store that allows users to rent titles directly on the platform.

Sortera has developed an AI-guided system to sort scrap aluminum by specific grades. The startup is building a second sorting facility in Tennessee.

Finnish startup NestAI said it has raised €100 million to build "Europe's leading physical AI lab."

The two companies will start in the UK this year, before expanding to other European cities in 2026 and the U.S. in 2027.

The memo that went out Thursday, which TechCrunch obtained, says the "timing" of the company's pivot away from tractor manufacturing puts it at risk.

Nvidia's earnings were dominated by its data center business.

The story of Ghost in the Shell’s main villain the Puppet Master hinted at a future where governments use hackers for espionage, at a time when most of the world had never connected to the internet.

The startup claims that its AI agents can reduce the cost of product manufacturing by an average of 35%.

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to connect this trove of data in a meaningful way and actually use it to improve their health. Function Health wants to consolidate health data and make it usable for its customers.

Founders and investors alike are obsessed with AI, and even Neundorfer said her firm, January Ventures, is looking at ways to use AI to make their work more efficient, such as helping to do due diligence on the market and competition.

WhoSampled offers an extensive database of songs, samples, covers, remixes, artists, and more. According to its website, it's now tracking more than 1.2 million songs and nearly 622,000 samples. That data is powering Spotify's latest features, like its upcoming music discovery tool SongDNA.

The subscription service will allow users to make remixes, covers, and new songs using the voices of artists and compositions of songwriters who choose to participate.