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Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, capable of orchestrating and executing multi-step tasks on Creative Cloud applications, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 15, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe Unveils Firefly AI Assistant, Capable of Orchestrating and Executing Multi-Step Tasks on Creative Cloud Apps,…

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Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with greater creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, compared to 30 seconds for Lyria 3 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches music generation model Lyria 3 Pro, with greater creative control and allowing users to…

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Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops a video editing and AI marketing suite, has raised $75 million from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 24, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops a video editing and AI marketing suite, has raised $75 million…

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Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70…

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Deepgram, which develops enterprise speech recognition technology, raised a $130 million Series C round led by AVP at a valuation of $1.3 billion, bringing its total funding to $215 million (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 13, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Can we build a better social network? The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin…

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Canva launches foundational design template that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 30, 2025

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Canva launches a foundational design template that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity…

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WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants from OpenAI, Perplexity and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 18, 2025

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp is updating its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting…

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Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation creation tool for businesses, raised $30 million at a valuation of $400 million, bringing the total raised to $74 million (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 10, 2025

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation creation tool for businesses, raised $30 million at a valuation…

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Russia and the Sino-American summit – The Diplomat

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Versant (VSNT) Q1 2026 results

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Fired GM employees talk about disturbing emails, layoffs and the role of AI

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Trump barely arrives in China with a thud

Kash Patel Shamed for Alleged Drinking During Senate Hearing

He doesn’t care about the American people

Investigation expanded into Trump demanding editorial control over CNN

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation pledge $200 million to use AI in health and education initiatives; the foundation signed a similar $50 million deal with OpenAI in January (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Klarna reports first-quarter revenue up 44% year-over-year to $1.01 billion, above estimate, GMV up 33% to $33.7 billion, active customers up 20% to $119 million and profit of $1 million, up from a loss of $99 million year-over-year (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 29% year-over-year to ~$67 billion and net profit up 19% year-over-year to ~$1.6 billion, matching estimate as it boosts production of AI servers, its largest source of revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Jensen Huang’s foundation purchased $108.3 million worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI’s financial sector push, but financiers rarely use it for their work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

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Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, capable of orchestrating and executing multi-step tasks on Creative Cloud applications, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with greater creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, compared to 30 seconds for Lyria 3 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops a video editing and AI marketing suite, has raised $75 million from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Deepgram, which develops enterprise speech recognition technology, raised a $130 million Series C round led by AVP at a valuation of $1.3 billion, bringing its total funding to $215 million (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Canva launches foundational design template that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants from OpenAI, Perplexity and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation creation tool for businesses, raised $30 million at a valuation of $400 million, bringing the total raised to $74 million (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)