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Tennibot: The Tennis Ball Roomba

While some tech companies have lofty goals to transform drug discovery through AI or to mine metals from asteroids, others set out to solve very annoying pain points average people feel everyday. Tennibot falls into the latter category and wants…

Amazon Introduces AI-Powered Video Ad Creation Tools

Businesses that sell on Amazon will have access to new generative AI tools allowing them to create video ads from a single product image. There are actually two related products that Amazon announced — live image and video generator. Both…

Unveiling ChatGPT: Your Ultimate AI Chatbot Companion

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used…

Anthropic Welcomes Former OpenAI Co-founder Durk Kingma

Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands (where he’s based), but didn’t say…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024: Full Disrupt Stage Schedule

Get ready for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, our signature event for startups of all stages, taking place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30. This year, we’re expecting a massive turnout of 10,000+ leaders from the startup, VC, and…

Numa secures $32M for AI-driven car dealership automation

Sometimes, a pivot ends up being the smartest decision company leaders can make. See Netflix’s pivot from DVDs to streaming, or Corning’s pivot from lightbulbs to touchscreens. The list of extremely successful startup pivots goes on. And on. And on.…

Microsoft Copilot: Screen Reader, Deep Thinker, Vocal Assistant

A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching new Copilot capabilities on Windows for all users, including a tool that can understand and respond to questions about what’s on…

Bing Enhances Search Results with AI Overviews

Microsoft has launched its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing generative search. On the heels of a pilot in July, Bing generative search — albeit still under development — began rolling out to all U.S. users this morning. The easiest…