Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel
The U.S. government’s recent stake in Intel comes after a long period of floundering at the company’s foundry business.
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These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI
Founded by a 20-year-old and two 22-year-olds, Human Behavior uses vision AI to give companies a real understanding of how people use their products.
Warp brings new diff-tracking tools to the AI coding arms race
The AI coding tool Warp is releasing a new set of features designed to give users more oversight over command-line coding agents, with more extensive difference tracking and a clearer view of what the coding agent is doing.
3 days left to lock in your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Time is running out to showcase your startup in front of the most influential eyes in tech. In just 3 days, the exhibitor table deadline closes for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. And with only 10 tables still available (or fewer by the time you read this), every minute matters. If you’ve been on […]
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 finalizes the Builders Stage agenda with top scaling voices
The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is where founders, operators, and investors get real about what it takes to turn an idea into a business that works.
PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions
The arrangement is part of a new partnership between PayPal and the AI provider, which benefits both companies in different ways.
Amazon’s Lens Live AI shops for anything you can see
Amazon will now let you shop for products by pointing your camera at them. On Thursday, the company announced Lens Live, a new feature that uses your camera to scan things in the environment around you, while surfacing matching product listings. This feature, which is only rolling out to the Amazon Shopping app on iOS […]
Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world
Lens Live will not replace Amazon’s existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens.
OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team
OpenAI is bringing on the founder of Statsig as its CTO of Applications, and making changes to other leadership roles at the company.
OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffling executive roles, bringing on a new CTO of applications, and acquiring a product analytics […]