timef 11/26/2025
- Onton raises $7.5M to expand its AI-powered shopping site beyond furniture techcrunch.com2025-11-26 20:00:00
Onton, which change its name from Deft, is giving users an infinite canvas with AI-powered image generation to nudge them towards making quicker purchase decisions
- Uber and WeRide’s robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi is officially driverless techcrunch.com2025-11-26 15:00:00
The commercial robotaxi service launched last year. Now, the human safety operator is gone.
- Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’ techcrunch.com2025-11-26 06:52:22
An investor explains the "buy, fix, and hold" model employed by Bending Spoons and similar companies that buy distressed startups.
- YouTube is working on a feature that will fix the messy home feed techcrunch.com2025-11-26 06:31:48
YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows users to customize their home feed.
- Character.AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat techcrunch.com2025-11-26 05:22:04
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.
- ChatGPT’s voice mode is no longer a separate interface techcrunch.com2025-11-26 04:04:52
ChatGPT now lets you use voice and text in the same screen, making conversations feel more natural as responses and visuals appear in real time.
- Warner Music signs deal with AI music startup Suno, settles lawsuit techcrunch.com2025-11-26 03:57:31
WMG says artists and songwriters will have full control over whether and how their names, images, likenesses, voices, and compositions are used in new AI-generated music.
- OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren’t sweating it techcrunch.com2025-11-26 03:35:06
Startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.
- Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths techcrunch.com2025-11-26 02:49:20
Career exploration platform Find Your Grind raises $5 million to help more students discover alternative professions.
- Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot leaves WhatsApp on January 15 techcrunch.com2025-11-26 01:11:55
WhatsApp's new platform policies ban general purpose AI chatbots like Copilot from using its service.
- China’s Pony.ai plans to triple global robotaxi fleet by the end of 2026 techcrunch.com2025-11-26 00:54:57
The Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai has global ambitions, and plans to build a 3,000-strong robotaxi fleet to meet them.
- Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites techcrunch.com2025-11-26 00:14:33
The discovery suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected.
- Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension techcrunch.com2025-11-26 00:00:00
Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice assistant that answers your questions. In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall […]
