YouTube now has a way for parents to block kids from watching Shorts | TechCrunch

YouTube and other social media platforms are ramping up their parental controls as the online safety…

Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

Brazil’s competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to put on hold its policy that bars third-party AI…

Pebble founder says his new company is not a startup

Pebble’s founder, Eric Migicovskyis doing things differently with his reboot of the Pebble smartwatch brand and…

Googles Gemini to power Apples AI features like Siri | TechCrunch

It’s official. Apple has chosen to work with Google, a longtime partner, to power AI features…

Luminar lines up $22 million bidder for its lidar business | TechCrunch

Luminar has reached a deal to sell its lidar business to a company called Quantum Computing…

OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs

OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI are asking third-party contractors to upload real work that…

Gmail debuts a personalized AI Inbox, AI Overviews in search, and more

Google has unveiled a new AI Inbox for Gmail that’s designed to provide a personalized overview…

Google and Character.AI negotiate first major settlements in teen chatbot death cases

In what may mark the tech industry’s first significant legal settlement over AI-related harm, Google and…

Metas Manus news is getting different receptions in Washington and Beijing | TechCrunch

Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI assistant platform Manus is unsurprisingly caught in a regulatory tug-of-war…

McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of learn once, work forever is over | TechCrunch

If there is one point of consensus among the CES 2026 keynote speakers, it is that…