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Why Customer Backlash Won't Stop AI-Powered Innovation in Transportation Ferrari just launched the Luce, an AI-assisted supercar designed to enhance driving performance, and public reception has been lukewarm at best. Despite widespread criticism from enthusiasts and consumers, TechCrunch's latest mobility coverage reveals that companies aren'
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Google's New Gemini Spark AI Assistant Actually Works for Running Your Business Google just released Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI assistant designed to handle the small tasks that eat up your workday. It can summarize your inbox, plan local events, draft emails, and automate routine work—basically
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When Companies Go All-In on AI, They Often Miss What Actually Works Box founder Aaron Levie recently described a troubling pattern: executives cutting jobs for AI agents without understanding what those jobs actually entail. He calls it "AI psychosis"—when companies become so convinced that artificial intelligence can
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The Internet Is Being Rebuilt for AI Agents—Here's What That Means for You Major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare are redesigning their internet infrastructure to handle a future where AI agents—not humans—generate most of the traffic. These companies are preparing for the
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Google's Own AI Can't Even Spell "Google"—Here's Why That Should Concern You Google's latest AI model has a problem that sounds like a bad joke: it can't reliably spell basic words, including the company's own
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Pope's AI Encyclical May Have Been Written by AI—Here's Why That Matters An analysis by researcher Linch Zhang suggests that parts of Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical on artificial intelligence—a document titled Magnifica Humanitas—may have been generated by AI itself. Zhang
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The Pope's AI Warning Isn't About AI—It's About Power Pope Francis released his first encyclical this week, and while it mentions artificial intelligence, the real message is about something older and more troubling: how a small group of tech leaders can shape society
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Amazon's New Bee Wearable Shows the Privacy Trade-Off Every Business Owner Should Know About Amazon has launched Bee, a wearable AI device that clips to your clothing and listens to your day, offering hands-free assistance and real-time insights. Like other AI wearables entering the market, it promises convenience—
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Elon Musk Ditches Solar Dreams for Natural Gas and Space Data Centers Elon Musk's AI company xAI is betting big on natural gas power plants instead of solar energy, while SpaceX pushes ahead with plans for orbital data centers. This marks a dramatic shift from Musk's
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AI Voice Reconstruction Raises New Questions About Data Privacy and Access Researchers recently used artificial intelligence to reconstruct audio from cockpit recordings by analyzing spectrograms—visual representations of sound—forcing the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to temporarily shut down access to its public docket system. The incident highlights a
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Microsoft Lets You Turn Off That Floating Copilot Button in Office Apps Microsoft is rolling out updates next week to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that give users the ability to disable a floating Copilot button. The button has been appearing in the bottom right corner of documents and spreadsheets in
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Nvidia's Next $200 Billion Bet: AI Agents That Work Without You Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company has spotted a massive new market worth around $200 billion—and it centers on specialized computer processors designed to power AI agents. These are AI systems that can work independently
