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While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all. “We never used the word…

4:00 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 Meta announced on Thursday that it will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with the company’s Meta AI chatbot. Meta says it’s also working on the ability to contact emergency services if someone’s conversations suggest they may be at imminent risk of suicide. These…

I can’t imagine holding the 2019 Echo Studio like this. The new model is considerably smaller and lighter.Prakhar KhannaThe Amazon Echo Studio (2025) was unveiled at Amazon’s fall hardware event in September last year and launched in India in May 2026. Amazon says its new-generation smart speaker is 40% smaller, boasts “premium audio,” and utilizes…

IBM shares crashed toward their worst single trading day in nearly four decades on Tuesday, July 14, after CEO Arvind Krishna told investors the company’s second quarter fell short of what Wall Street expected. Within hours of that warning, one bank cut its price target and told clients to consider …

SK Hynix shares surge 13% on AI hopes as US tech stocks resume their climb

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company’s financial services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice…

They’re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI’s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money — potentially a lot more…

If you remember racing home after school to grab the family landline to call your best friend before dinner, a new device from Pinwheel is aiming to reboot that experience for a new generation. The kid-focused tech company announced Tuesday the launch of Pinwheel Home, a modern take on the classic household phone designed to…

Image Credits:SpaceX 7:19 AM PDT · July 13, 2026 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared SpaceX to fly Starship prototypes again, after the company identified the probable cause of the failure of the rocket system’s booster stage during a flight in May. SpaceX said over the weekend that the next flight of Starship could…

Waze, the Google-owned navigation app, is getting new AI-powered features and customization updates, including the ability to report road updates conversationally and get personalized navigation. Some of the new features are powered by Google’s Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant’s broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze…