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Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
From Muse to Instinct to Dots, tech firms are hunting for the user experience that will make an AI personal…
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Startups that promise to predict how humans will behave are having a moment. Over the past year, Simile…
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
In Brief Posted: 9:00 AM PDT · October 6, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Russell…
LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
If you’re looking for a document editor that doesn’t use artificial intelligence, LibreOffice may be just…
Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
The race between open and closed AI is on, and Europe is still in the mix. On Tuesday, French AI lab Mistral…
Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans
In Brief Posted: 7:00 AM PDT · October 6, 2026 Image Credits:Pinterest Sarah Perez Pinterest’s AI now…
Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 lands at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15, bringing together 10,000+…
Crunchbase Data Shows AI’s Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial Acquirers
Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies…
Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no
In May, Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” which took AI to the…
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
OpenAI will start adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union…
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old,…
Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
Instinct, the AI agent now valued at $10 billion as of its latest funding round, is expanding into group…
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 checkout feature that…
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…
HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? HackerRank, a platform used by…
OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results
ChatGPT is getting more ads. Specifically, OpenAI is adding visual display ads to its ad product line-up so…
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 models…
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
In Brief Posted: 7:35 AM PDT · October 5, 2026 Image Credits:Carol Yepes / Getty Images Russell Brandom…
Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made Startup Battlefield. Only 20 will pitch on the Disrupt Stage…
The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what…
📈 Monday data: More AI, more justice?
Latest in our AI Investment Brief: An update on AI revenues + what’s happening with AI spending.In England…
Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them?
The big trend in robots is handing the keys over to a generative AI model, but that brings with it a problem:…
Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up
Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data…
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
In Brief Posted: 1:31 PM PDT · October 4, 2026 Image Credits:DBenitostock / Getty Images Anthony Ha Google…