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There’s no event quite like TechCrunch Disrupt, and if you’ve never been, this is the year to change that. You have just 3 days left to save up to $668 on your pass. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and innovators at Disrupt 2025 — but act before September 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here to secure your low rate. It’s the definitive startup event where what’s next in tech takes the stage, and where early access, first-mover insight, and game-changing introductions all happen in one place. Investors discover the next breakout startups. Founders meet the backers, builders, and customers who…

In the last decade, as the camera quality of smartphones improved, platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok rose in popularity for photo and video sharing. Many people turned from casual posters to money-earning creators. Emergent, a company built by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, aims to become a similar platform for consumers when it comes to app creation. The platform allows non-technical users to create an app using prompts. While that’s not a unique pitch in 2025, Emergent intends to aid users through the app development process, while also managing different APIs and deployment steps so they don’t have…

At Klarna’s big employee conference last week in Stockholm, CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski swapped spreadsheets for a rap performance and then confronted a sobering reality. Even as Klarna basks in its $15 billion IPO, chairman Michael Moritz warned staff of a rival: “We are 10 years behind Revolut.”The Swedish fintech gathered about 3,000 employees in Stockholm for the convention, which featured keynote speeches, workshops, and team-building activities aimed at celebrating the company’s recent milestones and boosting employee engagement.Siemiatkowski kicked off its “Smoooth week” with a lip-sync performance of a rap about Klarna, according to two current employees who spoke on condition…

Nvidia is on a dealmaking spree: Days after committing to taking a $5 billion stake in Intel and a whopping $100 billion investment in OpenAI, the GPU maker has now struck a partnership with China’s Alibaba. Alibaba said on Wednesday that it is integrating Nvidia’s AI development tools for robotics, self-driving cars, and connected spaces into its Cloud Platform for AI. The Chinese e-commerce giant will offer Nvidia’s Physical AI software stack, which can construct 3D replicas of real-world environments to generate synthetic data with which AI models can be trained for robotics, self-driving vehicles, or smart spaces like factories…

Cloudflare unveiled a new policy framework designed to give website owners, publishers, and content creators greater control over how AI systems access and use their content.The policy, called the Content Signals Policy, creates a potentially powerful new license for the web that targets Google’s AI-powered search offerings, in particular.The web is making a pivotal shift from traditional search engines to AI-powered answer engines that create responses directly from scraped content, often without linking back to original sources. This threatens the web’s original traffic-driven model, which rewards content creation with clicks, views, and revenue.Most AI companies, including OpenAI, have separate web…

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Guardians designated hitter David Fry sustained a broken nose and facial fractures after he was hit in the face by a pitch from Detroit’s Tarik Skubal in the sixth inning of Cleveland’s 5-2 win over the Tigers, a victory that deadlocked the AL Central division race.“He is doing OK, he’s in good spirits,” manager Stephen Vogt said by phone Wednesday morning. “He’s upright, he’s alert.”Vogt visited Fry in the hospital. The team planned a more detailed update later.Fry squared around to try to bunt a 99 mph fastball from Skubal on Tuesday night and the…

Google’s new, cheaper AI Plus plan is now available in more than 40 countries, including Angola, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Uganda, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. The company first launched its AI Plus plan in Indonesia earlier this month at Rp 75,000 ($4.50) per month. The plan costs around $5 in most countries, and Google says it will discount it by 50% for six months in a few locations like Nepal and Mexico. The Plus tier unlocks access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, as well as tools for image and video creation like Flow,…

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Often sports, at their best, are the purest form of competition. They offer a chance to pick winners and losers in showdowns between rival teams, countries, sometimes even worldviews, in an arena where the games are played for high stakes but, ultimately, not for life and death.This week’s Ryder Cup is an example of that.It’s the biennial U.S. vs. Europe matchup on the golf course — an affair that has grown more contentious, occasionally uncomfortable and at times alarmingly petty over the past four decades.This year’s edition has the added intrigue of being played in front…

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — New York sports fans have been so starved for something to celebrate that they poured out of Madison Square Garden onto the streets and snarled city traffic in May, all because the Knicks simply got out of the second round of the NBA playoffs.They’re already resigned to the Giants and Jets being bad, aware the Yankees and Mets might not be good enough. They need a team to pin their hopes on.The U.S. squad playing in the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, a place revered by locals in ways no arena ever could, could be it.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Soon people will be able to use satellite technology and artificial intelligence to track dangerous soot pollution in their neighborhoods — and where it comes from — in a way not so different from monitoring approaching storms under plans by a nonprofit coalition led by former Vice President Al Gore.Gore, who started Climate TRACE, which uses satellites to monitor the location of heat-trapping methane sources, on Wednesday expanded his system to track the source and plume of pollution from tiny particles, often referred to as soot, on a neighborhood basis for 2,500 cities across the world.…