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After teaming up with Google on agentic commerce last month, payments giant PayPal announced Tuesday it’s adding new features to its PayPal Honey browser extension. The features will provide AI chatbot users, who are researching items they want to purchase, Honey’s product recommendations, pricing, and access to deals. When users ask their preferred AI chatbot a shopping-related question, PayPal […]

At its annual hardware event, Amazon introduced a new lineup of Echo devices, built specifically for its AI assistant, Alexa+, which has already rolled out to millions of customers through its early access program. To showcase the AI’s capabilities, Amazon is releasing four new Echo devices with improved processing power and memory: the Echo Dot

At an event on Tuesday, Amazonunveileda range of new AI-powered features for its latest Ring cameras and doorbells.  The features will enable Ring users to recognize visitors’ faces and find lost pets by connecting with other Ring users in the same neighborhood. Amazon also launched an Alexa+ feature that functions as a smart doorbell assistant,

AI has captured global attention — and not without controversy. This October at San Francisco’s Moscone West,Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character.AI, takes theAI StageatTechCrunch Disrupt 2025for a candid fireside chat on the explosive rise of human-like AI companions. Attendees will gain insight into the breakthroughs powering lifelike dialogue, the ethical questions surrounding conversational AI, and

At Amazon’s fall hardware event, the company announced will bring its upgraded AI, Alexa+, to its Fire TV devices. With Alexa+, Fire TV users will have access to expanded capabilities, like the ability to ask the AI more complex questions, get more tailored recommendations, find specific scenes in movies, and more. For instance, Fire TV

TechCrunch Disrupt isn’t just another tech conference packed with 10,000+ tech leaders — it’s the launchpad for startups and innovators.  Disrupt is where companies meet their first investors, form game-changing partnerships, and spark the ideas that take them to the next level. Your exhibit table could be the launchpad for your next big breakthrough, but time is running out.  With less than a month until

David Berg learned a lot about the waste management industry by driving a garbage truck around the country as the first employee at Ohio-based Brattle Motors.  He discovered that despite the sheer number of sales prospecting platforms, selling to the waste management industry is still an offline endeavor.   “All of them had a unanimous way of going to

The central pitch of AI browsers likePerplexity’s Comet,Opera’s Neon, andThe Browser Company’s Diais that they’ll help you complete daily tasks more efficiently. While these are agents that are limited to one browser,Compositeaims to build an agentic solution that helps professionals with their tasks, regardless of which browser they use. The startup was started earlier this

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Adobe’s popular video editing app Premiere isavailable on iPhonestarting today, following the company’s announcement of itsplans to release the app on mobileearlier this month. The Android version of the app is under development, Adobe says. The Premiere app for mobile is free to use and offers editing features, like multi-track timeline, including videos, sounds, music,