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Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant

Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet

Walmart’s Flipkart is quietly building a food delivery challenger in India

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal

Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch

Rivian’s CEO says autonomy will enable ‘dramatically different’ vehicle designs

Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review

Musk pledges to give ‘every kid in America’ one of his SpaceX shares

Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics

No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce

TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better

Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept

Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

A Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Waymo’s robotaxis are headed to Canada

Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them

Tressfecta wants to make hair braiding a less arduous task for hairstylists

In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes meets her equal in comedian Nathan Fielder

Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever

Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy

Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles

Counterfeits of luxury goods are a major problem for fashion houses. Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating…

Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and…

Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals

Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies and falls with style

When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off

And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the importance of failure and bouncing back from it

Meta launches an open-weight model that runs on Macs