In the past few years, creative marketplaces and platforms have realized they are sitting on a data gold mine, and they can either use that data to develop AI models or turn it into a source of revenue by licensing it to other AI labs.
Wirestock, which previously helped photographers distribute and sell their work on stock photography services like Shutterstock, has taken the latter path.
The…
Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how people consume information, she sees history threatening to repeat itself. This time…
While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing.
Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, a Canadian law firm management software company, is convinced that legal tech…
As AI begins to interact with the physical world, new types of labs are working to build world models that could be used to operate physical robotics or model objects in physical space. Unlike large language models, there isn’t an easy source of data for those models, which has left many labs scrambling to assemble the necessary training sets.
Now, one startup is emerging with an unlikely data…
WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
May 14, 2026
Meta on Wednesday said it is adding the ability to start “incognito” conversations with its Meta AI chatbot within WhatsApp. These conversations, the company said, will be processed in a secure environment and can’t be seen by anyone.
Users can start an incognito…
Smartphones can be distracting with their dizzying array of apps and constant stream of notifications. A new app called Poppy aims to organize the chaos by combining your calendar, email, messages, and other sources into a single dashboard.
The idea, per the company’s…
Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal – the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year – offering users a new set of legal plug-ins and MCP connectors designed for specific areas of law.
The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal AI space.
New types of design tools, such as Perplexity-owned Visual Electric, Figma-owned Weavy, Flora, and Krea, have risen in popularity in the last few years, thanks to AI. These tools bank on the promise that, with AI, a product team with designers can iterate through variations…
Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing startup Vapi to handle its inbound phone traffic. Today, Ring routes 100% of its inbound calls through Vapi’s platform.
That…
General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees – in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for some with AI-focused backgrounds. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it had conducted layoffs; they were first reported by Bloomberg News.
In an emailed statement, the automaker framed the layoffs as a…
