Amazon now lets you design custom merch using AI | TechCrunch
…for the products themselves. To use the feature, customers will tap the Alexa icon in the bottom right of the Amazon Shopping app or search “customize” in the search bar and click…
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Glean's top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point | TechCrunch
…After years of essentially being the only player in the category, the seven-year-old startup is accelerating its growth as tech giants enter the enterprise AI search market with rival products…
Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026 | TechCrunch
…Google is using Antigravity’s coding chops in consumer products like Search, where users will get a custom UI generated in real time as part of an answer. Here, users will be…
Google's new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet | TechCrunch
…With Universal Cart, users can add products they’re considering from anywhere on Google — while browsing Search, chatting with Gemini, watching YouTube, or reading Gmail. Once items are added, Universal Cart tracks…
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' | TechCrunch
Pinterest on Wednesday announced a new experimental app called “ Ask Pinterest ” that will allow the company to explore a more conversational approach to shopping and product discovery that could eventually find its…
Audio generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down | TechCrunch
…The consumer AI market is highly competitive, as often core products of startups turn into commoditized features of large companies. Podcast creation for knowledge is on a similar trajectory. After NotebookLM popularized…
Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration, at IO 2026 | TechCrunch
…Spark will include out-of-the-box integrations with Gmail, Google Docs, and other Google Workspace products, saving users the work of setting up connections and permissions with outside apps. Users can…
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis | TechCrunch
…There are large contingents for whom both of those things are true. On the user side, one thing that was very striking, we [already] talked about Google’s announcements about search and…
Google is pitching an AI agent ecosystem to consumers who may not buy it | TechCrunch
…This is such a different strategy from Google’s early days, when it introduced revolutionary products like Gmail, a free email service that vastly improved on existing options, or Google Search itself…
What ClickUp's mass layoff tells us about the future of work | TechCrunch
AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it while displacing those who don…