Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer

OpenAI says that Dresser will be responsible for the company’s revenue strategy in enterprise and customer success.

Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers

Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn’t used to train AI models.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era

Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are backing the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, donating MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to standardize AI agents, boost interoperability, and curb proprietary fragmentation.

Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+

Amazon upgrades Alexa+ with new shopping tools, turning Echo screens into hubs for orders, deals, and gift buying.

VSCO lays off 24 staff as its consumer business suffers

In an internal memo seen by TechCrunch, VSCO’s CEO Eric Wittman said the company’s consumer business had declined more than expected, and some of its new growth initiatives didn’t yield the expected results.

Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button

Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 Index 01 ring is not meant to be a competitor to the always-on, always-listening AI devices, like the AI pendant Friend, but instead offers a way to record quick notes and reminders with a press of a button on the… Continua a leggere Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button

Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps

Empromptu claims all a user has to do is tell the platform’s AI chatbot what they want — like a new HTML or JavaScript app — and the AI will go ahead and build it.

Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales

Quilt has sold nearly 1,000 units in the U.S. and Canada, and the new funding should help expand sales operations to more states and provinces.

‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback

“I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump posted on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.”