AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews
The Y Combinator startup, raised a Series A led by Peak XV Partners....
The Y Combinator startup, raised a Series A led by Peak XV Partners....
Researchers at DeepSeek released a new experimental model designed to have dramatically lower inference costs when used in long-context operations....
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model....
This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in how people shop online – one that moves away from search engines like Google and e-commerce platforms like Amazon towards conversational agents with curated recommendations, comparisons, and easy checkout experiences. ...
Anything raised an $11 million funding round led by Footwork....
Anthropic says its new AI model is robust enough to build production-ready applications, rather than just prototypes....
The search company said that this new feature will co-exist next to its AI Answers feature, which was introduced last year to give summarized responses to search queries....
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The new safety features come after numerous incidents of ChatGPT validating users' delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations -- including the death of a teenage boy by suicide....
Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder of Aetherflux, shares insights on building transformative companies in fintech and aerospace at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025....
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The startup uses an LLM tailored to helping people arrive at a consensus. Is it enough to help bridge our differences?...
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Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project by the same name, has raised an €18 million Series A led by Accel....
Maximor has come out of stealth with a human-in-the-loop agentic platform that does the finance team's grunt work....
After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded....
Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called "results-based" billing....
Early warning signs suggest this whole services-industry metamorphosis may be more complicated than VCs anticipate....
The gaming industry notoriously targets kids for in-app purchases. Lootlock gives parents granular control over kids game spending....
Ami Luttwak, CTO of Wiz, breaks down how AI is changing cybersecurity, why startups shouldn't write a single line of code before thinking about security, and opportunities for upstarts in the industry....
Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work...
If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend....
South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation's major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs....
This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what's really going on in these AI infrastructure deals....
YouTube Music's new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform's new hub for AI experiments....
On this special episode of Uncanny Valley recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley's history and future....
The wider shakeup comes a few weeks since its CEO and CTO left....
From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Watch the full episode...
Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet....
Flipkart is set to become the most valuable startup to shift its headquarters back to India ahead of a planned IPO....