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I’ve often joked that I would love to have a pet if only animals did not need to poop and eat smelly, wet mush from a can. I want a fuzzy pal to hang out with all day, but then I’ll hear that my frien

After earlier this year launching a marketplace that allows websites to charge AI bots for scraping their content, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare is pushing for increased regulation in the AI

Fal.ai, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new round valuing the company at over $4 billion, four people familiar with the deal said. The company raise

Sesame, a conversational AI startup and smart glasses maker, has raised a $250 million Series B round and is opening up its beta to a select group of testers, the company announced Tuesday. The startu

Today, OpenAI launched its new Atlas web browser in a surprise livestream. The show started with CEO Sam Altman, speaking directly to the audience. “We think AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opport

As the entertainment industry reckons with when and how to use generative AI in filmmaking, Netflix is leaning in. In its quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday afternoon, Netflix wrote in its

LangChain raised $125 million at a $1.25 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents was

The promise of vibe coding was that full-scale applications could be spun up from just an idea, powered by systems like Lovable and Replit AI. But it turns out writing the code is just the first step

Ask any salesperson how much information they’d like on a prospective customer and you’ll never hear the end of it. That’s the premise driving the crowded sales intelligence market, which today has se

Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019. Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog, which looked to provide more modern tools to higher-educational facilities, includ

Five days — 120 hours. That’s all that separates you from the most electric startup event of the year. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over San Francisco from October 27–29 — and these are your final da

As AI companies claim their tech will one day grow to become a fundamental human right, and those backing them say slowing down AI development is akin to murder, the people using the tech are alleging

Only 5 days left until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, bringing together 10,000+ leaders, VCs, operators, and innovators shaping the future of tech

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s developing AI-powered smart glasses for its delivery drivers. The idea behind the glasses is to give delivery drivers a hands-free experience that reduces the n

Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, according to a report from Axios. Meta declined t