Google Search as you know it is over

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View this email online in your browser  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 A message from Deck Pull invoices from any portal in seconds No connector. No manual downloads. Deck logs into your vendor portals, grabs the invoice, and returns structured data or PDF —fast. If a human can use it, Deck can too. Try It Free Afternoon Must-Reads Apple announces Apple Intelligence-powered accessibility feature updates: Apple announced several new accessibility updates to features like VoiceOver, voice control, live recognition, and real-time caption generation for videos that will be powered by Apple Intelligence. Read More 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 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 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 A message from Microsoft and NVIDIA Design, train & ship scalable AI: NVIDIA at Microsoft Build Get hands-on with real code, real systems, and real results. Join NVIDIA June 2–3 at Microsoft Build, happening in San Francisco and online. Developer-first activities, sessions, and solution demos available to both on-site and virtual attendees. Virtual passes are still available—sign up now. Learn more Last but Not Least 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 Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates

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View this email online in your browser  May 19, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates: Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes Read More Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI: Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Read More Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare: Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs. Read More Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum. Register Now! A message from Schneider Electric The future of energy starts now From microgrids to smart homes, advanced energy technology is redefining reliability, sustainability, and performance at scale. At Schneider Electric, we believe the future of energy is unified, digital, and decarbonized – and we’re building it today, for everyone. Read insights Morning Must-Reads Amazon's new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes: Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform. Read More Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here's what he found.: "There's a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it's easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?" Read More Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom: The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not pay. Read More OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX's Starbase site: The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites. Read More NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people: The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics — including fingerprints — in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026. Read More A message from Microsoft and NVIDIA Design, train & ship scalable AI: NVIDIA at Microsoft Build Get hands-on with real code, real systems, and real results. Join NVIDIA June 2–3 at Microsoft Build, happening in San Francisco and online. Developer-first activities, sessions, and solution demos available to both on-site and virtual attendees. Virtual passes are still available—sign up now. Learn more Last but Not Least SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required: Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107