Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is,…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD
On Wednesday, Enterprise AI model-maker Cohere said it raised an additional $100 million — bumping its valuation to $7 billion — in an extension to…
Microsoft adds Anthropic’s AI to Copilot
Microsoft is leaning into its new partnership with OpenAI’s chief rival, Anthropic. Starting Wednesday, the software giant will incorporate Anthropic’s AI models into its AI…
Drone startup Guardian Agriculture shuts down
Guardian Agriculture, a Woburn, Mass.-based startup developing large drones for aerial spraying, recently shut down after failing to secure additional funding. The company ceased operations…
Oracle is reportedly looking to raise $15B in corporate bond sale
Oracle is reportedly looking to raise funds just weeks after the company inked an historic AI infrastructure deal with OpenAI. Cloud infrastructure giant Oracle is looking to raise $15 billion through corporate bond…
Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it
Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server…
Kevin Rose on Digg, reinvention, and startup investing
Kevin Rose last spoke at Disrupt in 2012, when Digg was in the middle of one of tech’s most talked-about pivots. More than a decade…
Step into the future: The full AI Stage at Disrupt 2025
The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco, is officially locked and loaded, featuring the powerhouses shaping the future of…
CreateMe innovates with robotic assembly, adhesion tech for the garment industry
The MeRA platform delivers software-defined garment construction with robotics. Credit: CreateMe CreateMe Technologies Inc. recently introduced two apparel manufacturing innovations: MeRA, an autonomous platform designed…
Google launches an AI-powered mood board app, Mixboard
Google’s latest AI project ventures into Pinterest’s territory, as the company announced the launch of Mixboard, software that enables anyone to create AI-powered mood boards.…