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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 FT…
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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 Play.
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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 of writing may be synthetic…
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Real Estate AI Is Moving From Chat to Spatial Intelligence

April 20, 2026
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…
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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

April 20, 2026
Anthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude…
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DeepL, known for text translation, now wants to translate your voice

April 17, 2026
DeepL, a translation company best known for its text tools, released a voice-to-voice translation suite today that covers use cases like meetings, mobile and web conversations, and group conversations for frontline workers through custom apps. The company is also releasing an API that lets outside developers and businesses build on top of DeepL’s tech for customized use cases, such as call…
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