When the founders of a mental health app for men called Mental saw that one feature – AI interactive audio – was resonating wildly with their users, they knew they were on to something.
And so the idea for a new, and hopefully safer, kind of AI therapy app was born, which they called The Path, co-founder and CEO Anson Whitmer tells TechCrunch.
Then famed author and motivational speaker Tony…
One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
Google took the wraps off information agents, a reinvention of the aging Google…
Rising gas prices have been a recurring headline since the Trump administration started its war against Iran in late February, but it’s not the only commodity affected by the conflict. Around 10% of the world’s aluminum is made in the Gulf region, so prices of the metal…
xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over
May 21, 2026
Elon Musk’s xAI lost $6.4 billion from operations on just $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, according to SpaceX’s IPO filings. And the losses are poised to grow. SpaceX’s filing reveals plans to scale Grok to “multiple trillions of parameters,” a dramatic boost that will likely require significant additional compute spend.
Elon Musk merged his AI company xAI – which had previously…
IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed
May 21, 2026
Industry insiders say the next big thing in AI is “proactive” systems: agents that can anticipate a user’s needs – and fulfill them – before the user even knows what those needs are.
One startup that’s looking to make headway in this area is IrisGo. The company…
NanoCo, the company behind security-focused OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round following a viral launch, its founders tell TechCrunch.
The funding was led by Valley Capital Partners and saw participation from Docker, Vercel…
At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that the Gemini app is getting a series of new updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, access to a new AI video model called Gemini Omni, and new personal AI agent called Gemini Spark.
The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot and…
The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio, shrinking a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to…
Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic.
“I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially…
Drug discovery is one of the most expensive pursuits in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions, and most candidates still don’t make it. A generation of AI startups has promised to fix that – most have made the problem less painful for researchers, who are already technically sophisticated enough to use the tools.
But SandboxAQ thinks the…
