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Elad Gil — one of tech’s sharpest minds — on early bets, breakout growth, and what’s coming next at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch 7 Aug 2025
Elad Gil — one of tech’s sharpest minds — on early bets, breakout growth, and what’s coming next at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Elad Gil isn’t just ahead of the curve — he practically lives there. Before most of the world had even asked ChatGPT its first question, Gil wa...

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Though Google hasn't shared any specific data to back up its conclusions, even if we assume Google's claims to be true, this doesn't necessarily me...

First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant

To find out whether Alexa is still the best smart assistant for my family, I'm going to test Amazon's AI-powered devices, experiment with AI querie...

Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

Google is also offering students in the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil a free one-year subscription to its AI Pro plan.

OpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
OpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free

GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Josh Gruenbaum in a statement encouraged “other American AI technology companies to follow OpenAI’...

Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtua...

Payment platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Payment platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’

Lava is a digital wallet that lets merchants use credits to facilitate transactions.

Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web

The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.

Cohere’s new AI agent platform, North, promises to keep enterprise data secure
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Cohere’s new AI agent platform, North, promises to keep enterprise data secure

Canadian AI firm Cohere aims to alleviate data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that ente...

Two arrested for smuggling AI chips to China — Nvidia says no to kill switches
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Two arrested for smuggling AI chips to China — Nvidia says no to kill switches

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipp...

Final call: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 ticket savings end tonight
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Final call: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 ticket savings end tonight

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 marks 20 years of shaping the startup world — and tonight’s your last chance to save up to $675 on your ticket. From Oc...

Microsoft brings OpenAI’s smallest open model to Windows users
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Microsoft brings OpenAI’s smallest open model to Windows users

Microsoft will bring OpenAI's new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, its platform that lets users ta...

Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech
TechCrunch 6 Aug 2025
Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed toget...

Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation
TechCrunch 5 Aug 2025
Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation

The AI sales automation startup raised fresh funds, led by CapitalG, just months after its last round.

For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS
TechCrunch 5 Aug 2025
For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.

OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models
TechCrunch 5 Aug 2025
OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models

For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state of the art.

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it
TechCrunch 5 Aug 2025
Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple matter.

The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Here’s what it is
TechCrunch 5 Aug 2025
The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Here’s what it is

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as “the world's first comprehensive AI law” by t...

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