The Man Who Makes AI Slop by Hand
Chinese creator Tianran Mu went viral for mimicking the eerie, unsettling aesthetic of AI videos, but his work is 100 percent human....
Chinese creator Tianran Mu went viral for mimicking the eerie, unsettling aesthetic of AI videos, but his work is 100 percent human....
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the Startup Battlefield 200 finalists will take the stage one last time to compete for the $100,000 equity-free prize. Deciding their fate will be a select group of the most respected and influential investors in the industry — our final round judges. Meet them here....
Wonder will use the fresh funds to double its engineering team and accelerate its push into IP ownership and original content production....
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Amazon's new Help Me Decide tool will show you a personalized recommendation for a particular category and list reasons why you should buy it....
Snapchat is expanding access to its AI-powered “Imagine Lens,” allowing all users to generate and edit images with custom prompts for free....
Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment....
The new information comes as the Raines family updated its lawsuit against OpenAI. The family first filed a wrongful death suit against OpenAI in August after alleging their son had taken his own life following conversations with the chatbot about his mental health and suicidal...
OpenAI's new browser is a surface for the company to distribute ChatGPT and develop new AI features rather than improving core web experience....
Amazon likely hopes that the new glasses will shave valuable time off of each delivery by providing delivery drivers with detailed directions and information about hazards directly in their line of sight....
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities....
Ever wonder if you’re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your humanity. ...
Open source language models are crucial to AI innovation. Can open robotics models do the same for physical machines?...
GM is the latest automaker to lean into generative AI-based assistants that promise to respond to driver requests in a more natural-sounding way. Stellantis is collaborating with French AI firm Mistral, Mercedes is integrating ChatGPT, and Tesla has brought xAI’s Grok to its vehicles. ...
Ever wonder if you’re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your identity. ...
Meta continues to restructure its AI efforts after poaching more than 50 researchers from competing labs this summer....
GM said Cruise’s technology stack, including its AI models trained on five million driverless miles and simulation framework, feed directly into the automaker’s next-generation driver assistance and autonomy programs. ...
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At least seven people have complained to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that ChatGPT caused them to experience severe delusions, paranoia and emotional crises, Wired reported....
Starbridge raises $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures to help businesses better monitor public service opportunities....
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The founders of machine learning community Kaggle are trying to upend the crowded sales prospecting market with AI. And they're making headway....
The platform engineering startup Shuttle announced $6 million in seed funding to handle the infrastructure problems that start where products like Lovable and Cursor leave off....
The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot....
Netflix is using AI for special effects and pre-production, but CEO Ted Sarandos that Netflix "not worried about AI replacing creativity."...
As TechCrunch previously reported, the maker of a popular open source framework for building AI agents has officially become a unicorn....
Former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s new startup, Sesame, is building AI-powered smartglasses with natural, humanlike voice interaction. Backed by Sequoia and Spark, the company also launched an invite-only iOS beta to preview its conversational AI....
OpenAI's new browser announcement made it clear exactly how much Google has to lose in the AI era....
Fal.ai announced its previous round at a $1.5 billion valuation in July....