The countdown is almost over. Tomorrow is the day. In less than twenty-four hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West in San Francisco. From October 27 to 29, ten thousand founders, investors, and innovators will gather for three days…
A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system flagged his bag of chips as a possible firearm. Taki Allen, a student at Kenwood High School, said he was holding a…
OpenAI is developing a new tool that can generate music from text and audio prompts, according to a report from The Information. This technology could be used to add background music to videos or to provide a guitar accompaniment for…
OpenAI launched an AI-powered web browser called ChatGPT Atlas this week. This news makes me wonder if it is finally time to ditch Safari. That development was on our minds as we discussed the browser landscape, including some lesser-known alternatives,…
A couple of Thursdays ago, I awoke at nearly 4:30 a.m. to a dizzying Instagram DM. Rizzbot, a popular humanoid robot with more than 1 million TikTok followers and more than half a million followers on Instagram, had sent me…
Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi to his home in Kandhla, a small town in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. The 120-kilometer journey…
New AI-powered web browsers such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet are trying to unseat Google Chrome as the front door to the internet for billions of users. A key selling point of these products is their web browsing…
John Nitti has left his position as the advertising chief at X after just ten months. Nitti originally joined the company as the global head of revenue operations and advertising innovation. He was considered a potential successor to the former…
Turbo AI, a startup launched in early 2024, has reached five million users and generates eight-figure annual recurring revenue. The company, founded by two twenty-year-old college dropouts named Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, is now adding twenty thousand new users…
Instagram announced on Friday that it will now let you go back and see your previously watched Reels thanks to a new Watch History feature. Rival TikTok has had a similar Watch History feature for a few years now. With…
