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Only 5 days left until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, bringing together 10,000+ leaders, VCs, operators, and innovators shaping the future of tech. To celebrate the final countdown, we’re giving you one last chance to save big: Buy your pass and save up to $444, plus get 60% off a second ticket for your co-founder, partner, friend, or team member. This offer at these low rates ends when doors open on October 27 — lock in your two discounted passes now. Image Credits:Kimberly White / Getty Images Disrupt 2025 ticket types made for your growth journey Industry stage programming: 5 stages For Attendee, Founder, Investor,…
As AI companies claim their tech will one day grow to become a fundamental human right, and those backing them say slowing down AI development is akin to murder, the people using the tech are alleging that tools like ChatGPT sometimes can cause serious psychological harm. At least seven people have complained to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that ChatGPT caused them to experience severe delusions, paranoia, and emotional crises, Wired reported, citing public records of complaints mentioning ChatGPT since November 2022. One of the complainants claimed that talking to ChatGPT for long periods had led to delusions and a…
Five days — 120 hours. That’s all that separates you from the most electric startup event of the year. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over San Francisco from October 27–29 — and these are your final days to lock in savings before prices rise at the door. Grab your pass now to save up to $444, or bring your plus-one, co-founder, or teammate and get 60% off their ticket. Register today and start the countdown to three days that could redefine your trajectory. Got a whole team? Explore our group rates with 15% to 30% savings. Image Credits:TechCrunch Don’t miss a…
Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019. Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog, which looked to provide more modern tools to higher-educational facilities, including those that work with state departments. He learned quickly that his peers didn’t like working with the public sector — too much bureaucracy. Even finding out basic information, like what a school district purchased in the past year, required a lot of paperwork. “Out of hundreds of startups, only a handful of us were trying to modernize how government and education worked,” Wenig told TechCrunch. “Investors thought it was…
Ask any salesperson how much information they’d like on a prospective customer and you’ll never hear the end of it. That’s the premise driving the crowded sales intelligence market, which today has services that can do everything from helping to identify prospects and surface background about them, to even writing the pitch and performing autonomous follow-ups. But sales teams need more than data; they want context. Sumble, a startup out of San Francisco, is trying to provide that context by trawling the web across social media, job boards, company sites, regulatory filings, and so on, to surface information about what’s…
The promise of vibe coding was that full-scale applications could be spun up from just an idea, powered by systems like Lovable and Replit AI. But it turns out writing the code is just the first step in the process — and vibe-coders are already running into the standard headaches of maintaining and updating a software product. Luckily for them, a new crop of startups is arriving to fill those gaps. On Wednesday, the platform engineering startup Shuttle announced $6 million in seed funding to handle the infrastructure problems that start where products like Lovable and Cursor leave off. Investors…
To kick-start Hispanic Heritage Month, students at Brashear High School festooned the building’s south wing corridors with bright murals, forming a tapestry of color that reflects the school’s diversity. A pillar is painted with flags from countries around the world alongside a painting of a man holding a letter that says, “We the people of all nations.”Flags of various countries are also hung throughout the hallway with information about languages, currency and landmarks. Another wall highlights stories of students who immigrated to Pittsburgh from Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Honduras and other countries, charting their journeys to the U.S. This part of…
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It’s Tesla’s earnings day, which means another chance for Elon Musk’s company to trade in its EV label for AI.From robotaxis to humanoid robots, Tesla has moved well beyond its initial core of just building electric vehicles.BI’s William Edwards has a breakdown on all the big projects Wall Street analysts are keen to hear more about on this afternoon’s earnings call.Tesla has been subtly pivoting its strategy for years, but it’s now reaching a tipping point. The end of the federal EV tax credit last month and the undeniable rise of Chinese rivals have made selling EVs difficult, to say…
A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget office was convicted Wednesday of extorting private contractors for thousands of dollars in bribes as he oversaw large sums of state money for school construction projects.Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, 69, also a former Democratic state representative and a lawyer, was convicted by a federal jury in Bridgeport of more than 20 charges, including extortion, bribery, conspiracy and false statements. Sentencing is set for Jan. 14.“It was a clean sweep, I was just hoping it would go the other way,” Diamantis told reporters after leaving the courtroom.His lawyer, Norman Pattis, said they…