Julie Bort

Articles by Julie Bort

Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent - TechCrunch

Technology April 15, 2026

Microsoft is testing ways to integrate OpenClaw-like features into its existing Microsoft 365 Copilot tool. The new features, which the company confirmed to The Information, would be geared toward enοΏ½...

Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter - TechCrunch

Business April 10, 2026

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a Kendrick Lamar diss track, if the rapper was a corporate-speak-talking CEO and not a poetic Pulitzer-prize winning musician. ...

A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox - TechCrunch

Technology February 25, 2026

The now-viral X post from Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue reads, at first, like satire. She told her OpenClaw AI agent to check her overstuffed email inbox and suggest what to delete or archivοΏ½...

Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot - TechCrunch

Business January 31, 2026

Microsoft delivered a solid earnings report on Wednesday with $81.3 billion in revenue for the quarter (up 17%), net income profits of $38.3 billion (up 21%), and a record-breaking Microsoft cloud reοΏ½...

A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google's AI agent shopping protocol -- Google says she's wrong - TechCrunch

Business January 14, 2026

Shortly after Google announced its new Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economics watchdog sounded the alarm. In a now viral post on X viewed nearly 400,000 timοΏ½...

Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as β€˜slop’ - Yahoo Finance

Technology January 7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 06: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered the keynoοΏ½...

Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as β€˜slop’ - TechCrunch

Technology January 7, 2026

A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named β€œslop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from AI in 2026. In his classic, intellectual style, Nadella...

The 7 top space and defense tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield - TechCrunch

Technology December 28, 2025

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big sta...

Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet β€” on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2 - TechCrunch

Technology December 13, 2025

Google released on Thursday a reimagined version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research based on its much-ballyhooed state-of-the-art foundation model, Gemini 3 Pro.Β Β  This new agent isnt just ...

Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity - TechCrunch

Business December 6, 2025

The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday alleging copyright infringement. The suit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in a federal court in New York. The TribοΏ½...