Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
On X, Instinct founder Noah Shinn explained how Instinct handles users' privacy and security…
TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
TikTok announced Monday that it's launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app…
At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI
For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who…
Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era
Women throughout history have always sought out relationship advice, whether from newspaper columnists like…
5 startups that caught VCs’ attention at the latest PearX demo day
The PearX program distinguishes itself from Y Combinator, the OG of startup accelerators, in…
HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
Chakra represents a bet against the kind of technical assessment business HackerRank spent years…
Ex-US House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has died…
OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results
Now, the plan is to woo online advertisers who want to appeal to their…
Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips
The story begins almost 12 years ago, when Tayo Adesanya started a career working…
Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
For AI startups, choosing a model isn't necessarily a one-time architecture decision anymore. Open…
Hackers steal 8 million citizens’ records from Danish government database
The Danish government has confirmed that its central database of citizens' data was breached…
Who Won the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026? Meet the 3 Scientists
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel earned the honor for discoveries that use…
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the Internet.…
Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Meet the final five Startup Battlefield judges who'll decide who wins the pitch competition…
The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners,…
Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won’t hurt them?
"The difficulty with most of our systems is it's very hard to formally prove…
