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Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.
The signal, not the noise

Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

Miami-Dade leaders had suggested partnering with Rockstar Games to rebrand Miami International Airport as 'Vice City Airport' as a marketing tactic for both the city and the game.

John Ternus took over as Apple's chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence. He becomes executive chairman of Apple's board, with a mandate the company has said includes engaging policymakers around the world.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization says 17.5 million CDs were sold in the first six months of the year, up from just 12 million during the same period in 2025.

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

McKinsey forecasts nearly $7 trillion in data-centre investment globally by 2030; Nvidia last week said it expects AI spending to remain robust for years.

Konami has just announced a special showcase called "Press Start," scheduled for September 3, 2026, at 8 AM PDT/11 AM ET, with a runtime of 30 minutes. The event will be streamed live on Konami's YouTube channel, led by Silent Hill Townfall.

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

"The reporting in The Information on Nvidia's LPU is incorrect. We have no LPU sales in the China market today, and no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap," an Nvidia spokesperson said.

Building neural networks in Minecraft using redstone is a relatively common pursuit, but a clever creator has worked around the limitations of command blocks' available math operations to implement an LLM in just 445,782 blocks, down from over a million in the initial implementa…

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel.

What if AI didn’t really democratise creativity, as in generative AI didn’t make machines more creative, but allowed humans to spend more time being, well, creative? And how exactly?

The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

ANTHROPIC-CYBERSECURITY:Anthropic resumes external cyber tests after Claude AI hacks

Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater—you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan.

The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries.

The company has grown rapidly since its 2016 launch, crossing 100 million subscribers within six months and reaching 533.3 million customers

New Astra model unveiled; initiative to start with US utilities, grids and local governments

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with […]

AI is definitely augmenting the workforce; human-plus-AI work paradigm increases people’s productivity, says Infosys Chief Human Resources Officer

Power play. EA Sports is using generative AI to create voiceover for its in-game commentators in NHL 27, according to veteran sports commentator John Buccigross.When speaking on the Chirping Zebras podcast (initially spotted by Insider Gaming's Mike Straw), Buccigross was talking about his experience working …

Officially, Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI rendering was supposed to launch this evening with only a single game, only on Nvidia's latest RTX 50 GPUs, and with developers in full control of their artistic vision. But unofficially, modders have already ported a leaked version of DLSS 5 to run on just about anything while cranking […]

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

Amazon just hiked prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Eero routers, and Fire TV devices ahead of the holiday shopping season.

The company told TechCrunch he is "pursuing new endeavors." Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis by Mike Ross, an aviation executive who joined Pivotal's board of directors in November 2025.

Surging demand for AI chips is giving Samsung greater pricing power as customers seek alternatives amid tight capacity at leading foundries.

Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing in more recurring revenue from the App Store.