<p>Google announced on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025 that Project Astra — the company&#8217;s low latency, multimodal AI experience — will power an array of new experiences in Search, the Gemini AI app, and products from third-party developers. Most notably, Project Astra is powering a new Search Live feature in Google Search. When using AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When you claim to have the world’s most powerful video intelligence platform, you probably know a thing or two about foundational models. We&#8217;re pleased to announce that TwelveLabs CEO Jae Lee will be joining us on the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, happening June 5 at UC Berkeley&#8217;s Zellerbach Hall. One of the biggest [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple plans to release a new set of AI products and frameworks at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this June, including tools that&#8217;ll let third-party developers create software using Apple AI models, per a Bloomberg report.  Apple’s hope is that expanding its AI tech in this way will draw more attention — and users — [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI is evolving fast, and access to valuable insights and powerful networking shouldn’t be reserved for those who pay top dollar. We’re rolling back TechCrunch Sessions: AI ticket prices! Save up to $300 on your pass, and get an extra 50% off when you bring a plus-one. Learn from the brightest minds in AI and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is gearing up to hold its largest developer conference of the year, Google I/O 2025, on May 20 and May 21. CEO Sundar Pichai, DeepMind CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis, and executives in charge of Search, Cloud, and Android will announce major updates to Google&#8217;s product offerings. We&#8217;re expecting Google I/O 2025 to focus [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We’re thrilled to announce that Danielle Perszyk, the leader of Amazon AGI SF Lab’s human-computer interaction efforts, will be taking the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. The AGI SF Lab is at the forefront of developing foundational capabilities for AI agents that can operate in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI software company Builder.ai is entering insolvency proceedings, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. The Microsoft-backed unicorn, which has raised more than $450 million in funding, rose to prominence for its AI-based platform that aimed to simplify the process of building apps and websites. According to the spokesperson, Builder.ai, also known as Engineer.ai Corporation, is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Manus, the once-buzzy AI agent platform, on Tuesday launched a plan aimed at small businesses and organizations. The plan, dubbed Manus Team, starts at $39 per seat per month with a five-seat minimum, totaling $195 per month. Each team gets 19,500 credits in a sharable pool, as well as access to certain features in beta, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google DeepMind is at the forefront of AI innovation, and no one is more poised to speak to this than Senior Product Manager Logan Kilpatrick. We are pleased to announce he will be joining us on the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, happening June 5 at UC Berkeley&#8217;s Zellerbach Hall. TC Sessions: AI is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alation plans to integrate Numbers Station&#8217;s products into its own as soon as the end of this quarter, Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani told TechCrunch.</p>

<p>Last Friday, OpenAI introduced a new coding system called Codex, designed to perform complex programming tasks from natural language commands. Codex moves OpenAI into a new cohort of agentic coding tools that is just beginning to take shape. From GitHub’s early Copilot to contemporary tools like Cursor and Windsurf, most AI coding assistants operate as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last year, Klarna announced a significant initiative to leverage its internally developed AI systems, powered by OpenAI, across its operations. This wasn&#8217;t empty talk for the buy now, pay later giant. The company not only ended its pricey contract with Salesforce CRM, but also curtailed its hiring efforts, allowing AI to do some of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced on Monday that it has officially released the NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS, a day before Google I/O 2025 and a day before the company said it would roll out. Since its&nbsp;launch in 2023, the AI-based note-taking and research assistant has only been accessible via desktop. Google has now made the service [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Donald Trump is expected to sign the Take It Down Act today, a bipartisan law that enacts stricter penalties for distributing non-consensual explicit images, including deepfakes and revenge porn. </p>

<p>Semiconductor giant AMD followed through with its plan to spin out ZT Systems&#8217; server-manufacturing business. AMD announced on Monday that it was selling ZT Systems&#8217; server-manufacturing business to electronic manufacturing services company Sanmina. The $3 billion deal is a mix of cash and stock: $2.25 billion in cash; a $300 million premium, including 50% cash [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct revenue, but it can serve as a form of market research — and a funnel to paid applications and services. By contributing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>GitHub and Microsoft, GitHub&#8217;s corporate parent, are joining the steering committee for MCP, Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides. The announcement, which was made at Microsoft&#8217;s Build 2025 conference on Monday, comes as MCP gains steam in the AI industry. Earlier this year, both OpenAI and Google said they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Can AI speed up aspects of the scientific process? Microsoft appears to think so. At the company&#8217;s Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic AI to &#8220;transform the [scientific] discovery process,&#8221; according to a press release provided to TechCrunch. Microsoft Discovery is &#8220;extensible,&#8221; Microsoft says, and can handle [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft&#8217;s Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok — specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini — will &#8220;have all the service-level agreements&nbsp;Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is launching new APIs for Edge, its web browser, to let developers incorporate AI functionality into web apps using models built into Edge. Unveiled at Build 2025, the AI APIs mirror some of the functionality in Google Chrome, which also offers &#8220;built-in AI&#8221; that developers can tap to power their web applications. Microsoft&#8217;s move [&hellip;]</p>