May 19, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Google Search as you know it is over: Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web. Read More

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team: Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model. Read More

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude: The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View: Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios. Read More

Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment: “Status is built on the premise that the next generation doesn’t want to watch stories,” CEO and co-founder Fai Nur said. “They want to engage with the stories and even live inside them.” Read More

Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply-chain attack: The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them. Read More

Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool: Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch. Read More

Google takes a page out of Meta's book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses: Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration: At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity. Read More