India’s mobile app market is generating record revenue, with in-app purchases crossing $300 million in the first quarter, up 33% year-over-year, according to Sensor Tower – but much of that spending is flowing to global platforms.
Non-gaming apps were the main driver of growth in Q1, generating over $200 million in in-app purchase revenue – rising 44% year-over-year and…
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter.
April 23, 2026
AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins – the molecules that drive virtually every process in living cells.But as AI models continue to spit out more candidates for…
Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal
April 23, 2026
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar agreement to expand its use of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including systems powered by Nvidia’s latest GPUs, TechCrunch has exclusively…
Google Cloud Next is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and one clear message has emerged: Google wants AI startups on its cloud. To that end, it made several startup-related announcements.
The most significant is that the tech giant has earmarked a new $750 million budget to help its Cloud partners sell more AI agents to enterprises. This funding is available to partners ranging from startups…
If you’ve ever played a role-playing game (RPG), you know how fun it is to create your character in any way you choose and embark on epic adventures. Now, picture an AI-powered, text-based RPG where every interaction with a non-player character (NPC) is completely…
Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
April 22, 2026
Legacy social media sites have been designed to keep us hooked to our devices, eyes glued endlessly to retina-frying feeds of memes and dumb videos in order to create more engaged platforms for advertisements. In recent years, however, a swell of companies have sought to…
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters its assetmaxxing era
April 21, 2026
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility!
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Uber seemed to be everywhere, all at once in the emerging autonomous vehicle technology sector. The Financial Times has now put a number on it.
The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why
April 21, 2026
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring.
According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Appfigures, worldwide app releases in the first quarter of 2026 were up 60% year-over-year across both Apple’s App Store and Google…
It’s not just one thing — it’s another thing
April 21, 2026
Sometimes, things are not just one thing – they’re also another thing. This sentence construction (“It’s not just this – it’s that”) has become so common in AI-generated writing that now, it’s no longer just a clue that a piece…
TL;DR
For most of the last AI cycle, real estate tools focused on search, summaries, document analysis, and market intelligence. That was useful, but it still left users with the same basic problem: knowing more did not automatically make it easier to visualize, test, or refine an idea.
That is beginning to change.
A new layer is emerging in real estate AI, one that can take a plain…
