You’ve doubtless heard of hybrid cars, but what about a hybrid cement or glass plant? Likely not, since nearly all of them today run on fossil fuels. But that might change soon — one startup has developed a way to incorporate electric heat into existing facilities. And like a hybrid car, it lets companies save […]

Google commented Thursday it blocked a record 8.3 billion ads globally in 2025 — up from 5.1 billion the year before. But the corporation suspended far fewer advertiser accounts than that surge might suggest, raising questions about how it polices its platform. The search giant attributed the disparity to its growing utilize of AI, particularly […]

Roblox is introducing updated agentic features to help developers plan, build, and test games on its platform, the business told TechCrunch exclusively. Roblox is revamping Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, to help creators throughout the entire development process. The business says that AI tools that take in a prompt and output […]

Google on Thursday published that Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature will get Nano Banana-powered image generation to create images with personalized context. That means its AI images can be created using Gemini’s understanding of your likes and interests, without those having to be explicitly noted in the prompt. This works because Gemini already has context of […]

As of March, AI traffic to U.S. retailers’ websites rose by 269% over the previous 12 months, continuing the momentum during the holiday shopping season when AI traffic was up by 693%, according to recent data released on Thursday by Adobe. And in the first three months of 2026, AI traffic had risen 393% compared […]

The role of observability tools has evolved once again. While the economy for solutions to ensure tech systems’ reliability has grown over the years, the center of gravity has steadily shifted from “track everything” to “control complexity and costs.” Meanwhile, the rapid influx and adoption of AI agents within enterprises have only added a brand-new […]