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Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place. Once users select photos that they want to share, Gemini will analyze the images to create captions. Users can then choose to edit or remove the caption. The company says the new tool is designed to give users a head start on captions when sharing content. Caption suggestions are available now in English on iOS in the…

Before Melanie Turner joined Oakland’s Rooted program, she was house hopping and couch surfing, moving between the homes of families and friends with her preschool-age son in tow. Pursuing a career in education while trying to afford a place to live in Oakland took a toll.“It was a hard reality for me to grasp as a parent that I was not able to provide for my child in the way that I expected to,” she said. Then she found the Rooted marketplace, which offers teachers and school staff housing at discounted rates in buildings across the city. On Thursday, Turner…

We’re down to 4 days left to save up to $482 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. These low rates will disappear on April 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’ve been mapping out your 2026 tech event calendar, this isn’t the moment to wait. Register now to lock in your savings before prices increase. What to expect at Disrupt Each year, Disrupt brings together 10,000+ founders, tech leaders, and VCs at San Francisco’s Moscone West. From October 13–15, you’ll gain valuable takeaways and curated networking opportunities designed to elevate your startup trajectory, accelerate your career, or strengthen your portfolio. Key insights from today’s tech heavyweights Last year, Disrupt featured 200+ on-stage conversations with 250+ top voices…

Elon Musk’s chipbuilding megaproject has a new partner: Intel. Loading audio narration… The US chipmaker said on Tuesday it would join SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help build Terafab, an ambitious plan to construct a series of enormous semiconductor fabs to produce chips for robotaxis, humanoid robots, and solar-powered data centers in Space.”Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 terawatt a year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics,” Intel wrote in a post on X.Intel’s share price was up as much as nearly 5%…

Cloudflare and GoDaddy are teaming up to tackle a growing problem at the heart of the internet: the collapse of the web’s traditional business model in the age of AI. Loading audio narration… A new partnership between the two companies aims to address this imbalance.GoDaddy will integrate Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control into its web hosting site, allowing site owners to control how AI bots interact with their content. They can give AI bot crawlers access, block them, or potentially charge for access. These bots, run by giant AI companies, crawl the web, sucking up content for free to power chatbot…

For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto the cap table.  “Companies are staying private longer, and there are fewer IPOs now than we’ve seen historically,” Mitch Stein, founder of Arena Private Wealth, an investment advisory firm for high-net-worth individuals, told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “A lot of money is being made well before companies go public, and right now the…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin system president could lose his job during a closed-door regents meeting Tuesday evening. The Board of Regents announced it had scheduled the meeting for 6 p.m. EDT to consider firing Jay Rothman, the leader of the state’s four-year colleges. The regents have not given a clear reason why they’re considering terminating Rothman, who has served a little more than four years in the top leadership post. The vote is scheduled just five days after The Associated Press first reported that the regents asked Rothman to either resign or be fired. Rothman said…

The software industry is in a fight for its life. But it’s got a plan. Loading audio narration… The “SaaSpocalypse” is one of the big themes of 2026, with people arguing AI could kill the software business. Why pay for software when AI can build it for you?BI’s Ashley Stewart spoke with executives and employees at Salesforce, Microsoft, and other software giants about how they’re coping with the threat posed by AI.Software companies say AI is just the next evolution of their business. AI agents that can navigate across their tools are how they plan to address this new era.It’s…

Cybersecurity unicorn Torq, which refers to itself as the “Cursor of security operations,” is in advanced talks to acquire Boston-based Jit, an automatic security assistant, for roughly $50 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. Loading audio narration… The deal would combine Torq’s massive security command center with Jit’s automated tools. By joining forces, the two companies hope to move toward “agentic security,” in which smart AI agents act like independent web-based security guards, eliminating digital threats without ever needing human interaction.The acquisition has not yet been finalized, and terms could still change. Both companies declined to comment.Last…

Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, is having a moment. Loading audio narration… Claude is Anthropic’s flagship product. The bot underpins a family of the company’s leading AI models: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. In February 2026, Anthropic released Opus 4.6, an upgrade to a model that just three months prior “scored higher than any human candidate ever” on the AI startup’s notoriously difficult test for prospective engineers.With the release of Cowork in January 2026, Anthropic made Claude’s non-programming capabilities more accessible, helping spur the so-called “SaaSpocalypse” that briefly wiped out roughly $1 trillion in market caps for software companies.Here’s everything you need…