Hot Girl Hotline is like 'Dear Abby' for the AI era | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·3d ago
Women throughout history have always sought out relationship advice, whether from newspaper columnists like “Dear Abby,” letters to Cosmo, or just chatting with girlfriends.
5 startups that caught VCs' attention at the latest PearX demo day | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·3d ago
There isn’t a shortage of accelerators for startups, but one of the few that investors watch closely is PearX, a 12-week program that caps its cohorts at a mere 20 startups and is run by Pear VC, a...
HackerRank's AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·3d ago
What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? HackerRank, a platform used by companies to assess and hire developers, is offering a glimpse at what that future of job...
OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·3d ago
ChatGPT is getting more ads. Specifically, OpenAI is adding visual display ads to its ad product line-up so that ads will appear alongside images that users ask ChatGPT to generate.
Open or closed AI? Learn what to build on at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·3d ago
For AI startups, choosing a model isn’t necessarily a one-time architecture decision anymore. Open models are improving. Frontier APIs keep advancing.
Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·3d ago
The story begins almost 12 years ago, when Tayo Adesanya started a career working with microchips and AI processors.
The Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·3d ago
Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made Startup Battlefield. Only 20 will pitch on the Disrupt Stage across all three days. Competition goes from October 13-15 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
The full Disrupt Stage lineup | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·3d ago
The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what happens next in the tech ecosystem.
Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won't hurt them? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·3d ago
The big trend in robots is handing the keys over to a generative AI model, but that brings with it a problem: that architecture isn’t predictable the way traditional algorithms are.
Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha·4d ago
President Donald Trump hosted many of the biggest names in artificial intelligence this week — in part to announce that the U.S. government isn’t calling it artificial intelligence anymore.
TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·4d ago
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha·4d ago
As promised, President Donald Trump has announced the formation of a new Super Intelligence Force, which he said will be led by national intelligence director Jay Clayton and other members of his...
Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’ | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha·5d ago
A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for her license plate without a warrant.
Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha·5d ago
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the company has stopped using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in its dealings with government agencies as it seeks approval to build new data centers.
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’ | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha·5d ago
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
Jack Dorsey's Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·5d ago
Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s decentralized messaging app designed to work without an internet connection, has disappeared from Apple and Google’s app stores in India, months after New Delhi first sought...
Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant·5d ago
“When will we start flying?” I asked Vessev co-founder and CEO Eric Laakmann, as we pulled away from the Brooklyn marina in the startup’s VS-9 electric ferry.
Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·5d ago
Neko Health seems to be the hottest body scan in the world right now. The scan, co-founded by Spotify’s David Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, uses advanced technology to screen for issues in the blood...
All the AI agents that can live in your text messages | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·5d ago
Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person.
Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·5d ago
Flock, whose cameras scan license plates across the country, continues to draw public anger, and now Senator Bernie Sanders wants the federal government out of the business altogether.
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