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Published May 7, 2026, 7:06 PM

Based on Whitney Wolfe Herd's past comments about Bumble's new direction, the company is expected to lean into AI -- Bumble is even working on an AI dating assistant called Bee, and the CEO has made many comments over the years about how AI will be "a supercharger to love and relationships."
Published May 7, 2026, 4:25 PM

OpenAI’s chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.
Published May 7, 2026, 4:05 PM

Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.
Published May 7, 2026, 1:44 PM

Moonshot's annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and API usage.
Published May 7, 2026, 1:00 PM

Users will be able to create a podcast from Codex or Claude Code and import it to Spotify.
Published May 7, 2026, 12:20 PM

Spotify's AI DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Published May 7, 2026, 5:25 AM

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.
Published May 6, 2026, 9:57 PM

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
Published May 6, 2026, 9:43 PM

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
Published May 6, 2026, 9:32 PM

TechCrunch
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
Published May 6, 2026, 6:23 PM

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
Published May 6, 2026, 5:20 PM

The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Published May 6, 2026, 3:49 PM

While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.
Published May 6, 2026, 3:46 PM

Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks.
Published May 6, 2026, 3:27 PM
Match Group said that it's slowing its hiring plans for the rest of the year because AI tools "cost a lot of money."
Published May 6, 2026, 3:12 PM

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit for overpromising the arrival of Siri's AI features.
Published May 6, 2026, 12:10 PM

MIT Tech Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining Last week, two oblong neon submersibles started to descend nearly 6,000 meters into the Pacific Ocean. Throughout the rest of May…
Published May 5, 2026, 11:50 PM

SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nvidia's NemoClaw.
Published May 5, 2026, 10:57 PM

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.
Published May 5, 2026, 8:56 PM

With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.
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