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 unscripted.
Latitude, the startup known for its open-ended text adventure games featuring “infinite storylines” generated by AI…
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…
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. That percentage was an even higher 80% when looking at the iOS App Store alone. In April 2026 so far, the total number of app…
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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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…
Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
April 20, 2026
At a trendy venue near the San Francisco pier, Sam Altman’s verification project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid expansion of its ambitions. And it’s starting with Tinder.
Tools for Humanity (TFH), the company behind the World project, announced Friday plans to integrate its verification tech into dating apps, event and concert ticketing systems, business organizations, email…
There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring.
Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with lines of code. But as the new generation of AI coding agents delivers…
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…
The core promise of new AI platforms is that you can describe your task to the AI assistant, let it plan the task and use the relevant tools for you, and keep your preferences in mind for future tasks. This is especially important for design professionals, as they want to have a predictable, automated workflow for creating content and media assets.
Canva is leaning into this paradigm in the latest…
