YouTube adds new creator tools like video A/B testing, dynamic thumbnails, and live dubbing
Many of these tools hinge on using generative AI to try out a variety of different tactics on a video to find what works best.
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A16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school
This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel’s Fellowship Program.
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OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won’t be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI’s ongoing mathematical research.
Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
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From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they’re actually building.