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Final 2 days to claim your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch 16 Oct 2025
Final 2 days to claim your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

With less than 48 hours to secure your table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, now is the time to step in before a competitor takes your place.

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips
TechCrunch 16 Oct 2025
General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips

Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier resear...

Last 48 hours to save before TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 flash sale ends
TechCrunch 16 Oct 2025
Last 48 hours to save before TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 flash sale ends

Last 48 hours to save before the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 flash sale ends. Save up to $624 on your ticket and join 10,000 tech leaders. Register here.

Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products
TechCrunch 16 Oct 2025
Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products

Spotify has announced new partnerships with major record labels — including Sony, Universal, Warner, and Merlin — to build “responsible AI”...

Jack & Jill raises $20 million to bring conversational AI to job-hunting
TechCrunch 16 Oct 2025
Jack & Jill raises $20 million to bring conversational AI to job-hunting

Jack & Jill uses conversational AI to sidestep the listing and resumé shuffle. With $20 million in seed funding, the company is plotting its US ex...

Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable co-workers
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable co-workers

Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital.

Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices

Liberate’s AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims.

Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 "at one-third...

Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts

Semiconductor firm Arm is partnering with Meta to enhance the social media company's AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout.

Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft

Nscale plans to deploy the chips over the next few years to three data centers in Europe and a fourth in the U.S.

Google releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
Google releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor

Veo 3 already has edit features such as adding reference images to drive a character, providing the first and last frame to generate a clip using A...

Less than 3 days remain to secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
Less than 3 days remain to secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Three days left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Now is the mom...

You can now text Spotify’s AI DJ
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
You can now text Spotify’s AI DJ

Spotify's AI DJ now takes text commands and accepts Spanish-language music requests by voice.

3 days left: Save up to $624 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Pass before prices rise
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
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OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
TechCrunch 15 Oct 2025
OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion

Some of America's most valuable companies are now leaning on OpenAI to fulfill major contracts, notes the FT.

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users
TechCrunch 14 Oct 2025
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.

Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search option
TechCrunch 14 Oct 2025
Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search option

The integration offers conversational, cited answers instead of traditional links and follows positive feedback from earlier tests in select market...

Google’s Gemini can now help you schedule Google Calendar meetings
TechCrunch 14 Oct 2025
Google’s Gemini can now help you schedule Google Calendar meetings

Designed for one-on-one meetings, the tool lets you insert available time slots directly into an email, automatically creating a calendar invite on...

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