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November 2026

  1. In: AI tools for video and daily tasks

    Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar

    Meta lets US users video‑chat with a custom Muse AI avatar

    techcrunch.com

  2. In: Practical AI tools you can try now

    Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts

    Trajectory’s visual platform lets non‑technical creators train custom AI models easily

    techcrunch.com

October 2026

  1. In: Free multilingual transcription model released

    Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model

    Nvidia released a free speech‑to‑text model that can transcribe recordings in up to 40 languages, letting you turn audio into text without a paid service.

    techcrunch.com

  2. In: Google's new Gemini and a free transcriber

    Nvidia released a free speech-to-text model for 40 languages that works on recordings, not live audio

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  3. In: Google's new Gemini and a free transcriber

    Anthropic launched tools that show companies what their AI spending is buying

    techcrunch.com

  4. In: Keep your passwords away from AI

    Bank of America asks customers not to share their banking password with their AI assistant

    techcrunch.com

  5. In: Keep your passwords away from AI

    Google's Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds and real-time steering

    techcrunch.com

  6. In: Keep your passwords away from AI

    Opera introduced WebAI, a new web standard to run AI locally in your browser

    techcrunch.com

  7. In: Keep your passwords away from AI

    Nvidia is backing Simplismart, an Indian startup helping companies run AI with fewer GPUs

    techcrunch.com

  8. In: Anthropic files to go public

    Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue and mounting losses

    techcrunch.com

  9. In: Anthropic files to go public

    How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

    techcrunch.com

  10. In: Free AI scanners and an AI price war

    Grok released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated film Odyssey

    techcrunch.com

  11. In: Free AI scanners and an AI price war

    An Apollo economist says AI has delivered zero financial payoff to most companies so far

    techcrunch.com

  12. In: A voice AI that sounds human

    Will AI expose how shaky the internet's infrastructure really is?

    techcrunch.com

  13. In: A voice AI that sounds human

    Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has a new voice AI that sounds eerily human

    techcrunch.com

  14. In: A voice AI that sounds human

    A study found Grok's AI mostly picks Republican candidates when forced to choose, OpenAI's picks Democrats

    techcrunch.com

  15. In: OpenAI takes its AI off the live internet

    OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing significant risks

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  16. In: OpenAI takes its AI off the live internet

    Nvidia's CEO played with tiny Microduck robots, and 20,000 have sold

    techcrunch.com

  17. In: Canva's first image AI and Claude Duet

    Canva released its first image generation model, available to all users

    techcrunch.com

  18. In: Canva's first image AI and Claude Duet

    Anthropic's new Claude Duet app, an always-on AI agent, is open by waitlist to Pro and Max users

    techcrunch.com

  19. In: Canva's first image AI and Claude Duet

    1Password launched a way for AI agents to log in to your accounts without seeing your password

    techcrunch.com

  20. In: Canva's first image AI and Claude Duet

    Uber put all 30,000 of its employees on ChatGPT Work

    techcrunch.com

  21. In: Walmart welcomes AI shoppers, Amazon blocks them

    Amazon blocks AI shopping agents from its site, while Walmart is welcoming them

    techcrunch.com

  22. In: Walmart welcomes AI shoppers, Amazon blocks them

    Startup Recursive released Flint, a free coding AI that runs on a laptop and was largely built by AI

    techcrunch.com

  23. In: Walmart welcomes AI shoppers, Amazon blocks them

    More than half of managers say AI makes it harder to judge their employees' work

    techcrunch.com

  24. In: Lock your ChatGPT chats, plus new voice AI

    ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats

    techcrunch.com

  25. In: Lock your ChatGPT chats, plus new voice AI

    Yelp's app can now call a restaurant for you to check the wait time

    techcrunch.com

  26. In: Lock your ChatGPT chats, plus new voice AI

    Meta's Muse app hit 10M US downloads in 40 days, a mark only 11 other apps have reached

    techcrunch.com

  27. In: Lock your ChatGPT chats, plus new voice AI

    Meeting note-taker Otter.ai raised $320M

    techcrunch.com

  28. In: Kling 4.0, and a warning for AI tool users

    Fed up with ads and tracking, some smart TV owners are using AI to make their TVs dumb again

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  29. In: Kling 4.0, and a warning for AI tool users

    Hackers hit the AI coding tool OpenCode and ran up charges on users' AI accounts

    techcrunch.com

  30. In: Kling 4.0, and a warning for AI tool users

    AI companion app Tolan, which helps users navigate life, raised another $30M

    techcrunch.com

  31. In: AI agents, from Minecraft to refunds

    Disney agreed to hire most of Character.AI's staff

    techcrunch.com

  32. In: AI agents, from Minecraft to refunds

    Anthropic is committing 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund

    techcrunch.com

  33. In: One prompt line that makes AI more honest

    Meta removed wording from its terms that raised concerns about scraping and AI training

    techcrunch.com

  34. In: One prompt line that makes AI more honest

    Replit made OpenAI its default AI over Anthropic, partly because of cost, its CEO says

    techcrunch.com

  35. In: ChatGPT can now work across your tabs

    India is the latest country to report rogue AI agents, which got in through exposed app settings

    techcrunch.com

  36. In: ChatGPT can now work across your tabs

    Mark Wahlberg says he is OK with AI in filmmaking used the right way, and open to an AI clone

    techcrunch.com

  37. In: ChatGPT can now work across your tabs

    Replit's CEO says the future of work is the self-driving company, with AI agents doing the work

    techcrunch.com

  38. In: AI that runs on your own computer

    Bluesky's Attie app now lets anyone build websites and games with AI

    techcrunch.com

  39. In: AI that runs on your own computer

    Meta and Apple launched an open AI model that runs on Macs

    techcrunch.com

  40. In: AI that runs on your own computer

    Google's Universal Cart shopping tool is now live in the US, in Search and the Gemini app

    techcrunch.com

  41. In: AI that runs on your own computer

    Cal AI made over $30M in two years, helped by a small army of paid influencers

    techcrunch.com

  42. In: AI music now comes with a label

    YouTube Music now labels songs that were fully or partly made with AI

    techcrunch.com

  43. In: AI music now comes with a label

    Deezer will soon let listeners filter out AI-generated music, rolling out by year end

    techcrunch.com

  44. In: AI music now comes with a label

    Figma announced new features that set how AI agents work on its design platform

    techcrunch.com

  45. In: AI music now comes with a label

    Zenzap raised $44M for an AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp at work

    techcrunch.com

  46. In: Build your own Android app with AI

    Google Play now lets anyone build private Android apps by describing them to AI

    techcrunch.com

  47. In: Build your own Android app with AI

    Facebook's new AI feature, Your Algorithm, gives you more control over your feed

    techcrunch.com

  48. In: Build your own Android app with AI

    A new X subscription bundles X Premium with the AI tools Grok and Cursor

    techcrunch.com

  49. In: Build your own Android app with AI

    Chatbot platform Character.AI has filed for bankruptcy, five years after launch

    techcrunch.com

  50. In: Meta's new model and AI tools for work

    Meta released Muse Wonder, its first frontier AI model

    techcrunch.com

  51. In: Meta's new model and AI tools for work

    An AI app that listens in the background to learn about you raised $26M, from a former Plaud exec

    techcrunch.com

  52. In: Meta's new model and AI tools for work

    Honeyjar offers AI tools to help any company with PR and communications

    techcrunch.com

  53. In: Meta's new model and AI tools for work

    A startup says its AI can make permit-ready building blueprints in minutes

    techcrunch.com

  54. In: AI tools, and what they cost you

    Some AI assistants now live inside your text messages, for family, travel and work

    techcrunch.com

  55. In: Free AI tools and creator upgrades

    Meta Muse now on iPad, lets you generate images and text with voice prompts

    techcrunch.com

  56. In: Free AI tools and new open models

    Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account

    techcrunch.com

  57. In: New AI tools for visual and video creation

    Try clothes virtually in ChatGPT's new shopping view, no app needed

    techcrunch.com

  58. In: New AI tools and model updates you can try

    Try ElevenLabs AI voice: realistic speech generation with a free tier

    techcrunch.com

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