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Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the U.S. and Canada

Airbnb has shifted a third of its North American customer service to its AI agent, CEO Brian Chesky said.

Google Gemini can now read your Docs aloud

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Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage

This is definitely not about dogs, senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts discuss the week's biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies.

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.

AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley's Epstein problem

Equity is digging into the week's biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies like xAI and OpenAI.

$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show

MST3K‘s 2010s revival looked forward; this one is emphatically looking backward.

Anthropic's Super Bowl Ads Mocking AI With Ads Helped Push Claude's App Into The Top 10

The numbers suggest that Anthropic's Super Bowl commercials, combined with Anthropic's recent release of its new Opus 4.6 model, worked to drive attention to Claude's app and its key differentiator from ChatGPT.

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?

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A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup

"Our matches convert to actual dates at about 10x the rate of Tinder," Weng told TechCrunch.

Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull

At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.

Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull

At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.