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OpenAI says that Dresser will be responsible for the company's revenue strategy in enterprise and customer success.

Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.

The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn't used to train AI models.

Truecaller's Family Protection will be rolled out widely in the first quarter of 2026. The new feature lets up to five people join a family group overseen by one member who acts as the administrator and manages scam-blocking settings for the others.

The automakers will work together to bring two Ford-branded EVs to European dealerships in 2028.

Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.

Canoo's CEO bought the bankrupt startup's assets in April and told the court his "principal motivation" was supporting these programs.

Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are backing the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, donating MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to standardize AI agents, boost interoperability, and curb proprietary fragmentation.

Fairphone updates its repairable over-the-ear headphones with new drivers.

Meta's Facebook redesign elevates Marketplace, refreshes profiles, and aims to win back Gen Z users.

Amazon upgrades Alexa+ with new shopping tools, turning Echo screens into hubs for orders, deals, and gift buying.

Google is working on various types of AI-powered glasses — one model is designed for screen-free assistance, using built-in speakers, microphones, and cameras to allow the user to communicate with Gemini and take photos. The other model has an in-lens display — which is only visible to the person wearing the glasses — that can show turn-by-turn directions or closed captioning.

The European Commission is investigating Google over its AI summaries.

The latest is Microsoft's largest investment in Asia.

In an internal memo seen by TechCrunch, VSCO's CEO Eric Wittman said the company's consumer business had declined more than expected, and some of its new growth initiatives didn't yield the expected results.

India has given OpenAI, Google, and other AI firms 30 days to respond to its proposed royalty system for training on copyrighted content.

The two companies are launching the Accenture Anthropic Business Group to bring Anthropic's AI to Accenture's employees.

Tiger's last fund did well with investmetments in OpenAI, Waymo and Databricks. But it warns investors that AI valuations are already 'elevated.'

More than 230 organizations signed a public letter urging members of Congress to take action.

Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It's part of a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration that could reshape software workflows.