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Amazon’s new Echo Studio with Home Camera does exactly what it sounds like: adds a camera to the premium smart speaker for home monitoring, visual assistance, and video calls. It’s available now for $250 and is another attempt by Amazon to see into more homes.

There’s a big uproar about AI agents taking over commerce and orders, but that might not be the case just yet. Delivery company DoorDash revealed during its third-quarter earnings call that it has only seen “several hundred” orders from third-party agents like Muse, Instinct, Fo, and others. For comparison, the company said in its 2025…

Hint: It starts with an ‘A’ and ends with an ‘I.’ Credit: Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu

NEW YORK (AP) — A sell-off for tech stocks got even worse Friday on worries that Wall Street’s frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology sent prices too high.

The best connection you make at an event is not always the person standing next to you in line for coffee. Sometimes it is the founder who has already solved the problem keeping you up at night. The investor who can challenge the way you are thinking about your next round. Or the operator who…

Speakers at the City Quantum & AI Summit in London said the UK has much of what it needs to put quantum and AI technology into the hands of its armed forces and to grow the companies that build it, but that the institutions buying the technology and holding the capital are moving too slowly.

Google stock is down, and AI is eating into its ad revenue. Google’s fix? More ads. Credit: Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto

The limited partners who provide the capital to venture firms — the “money behind the money” — are feeling great right now. They’re in uncharted territory in many ways, but also potentially exceedingly lucrative territory.

It happens to the best of us — you’ve completely dropped the ball on figuring out a Halloween costume. Naturally, you’ve decided to solve this problem by turning to… TechCrunch? Yeah, sure, why not. I’ve got some ideas.

Applebee’s has fixed a security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal information of its registered customers, after a researcher found a password for an internal database inside Applebee’s mobile app, TechCrunch has learned.