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Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup at 19, landed in Y Combinator, and raised $5 million for their next company, Human Behavior. Launched just a few months ago, Human Behaviour is betting that vision AI can do what analytics tools like Mixpanel and PostHog have struggled with: give companies a real…

The AI coding tool Warp has a plan for making coding agents more comprehensible — and it looks an awful lot like pair programming. Today, the company is releasing Warp Code, a new set of features designed to give users more oversight over command-line-based coding agents, with more extensive difference tracking and a clearer view of what the coding agent is doing. “I feel like with these other command-line tools, you’re kind of just crossing your fingers and hoping that what comes out the other end of the agent is something you can actually merge,” says founder Zach Lloyd. With…

Time is running out to showcase your startup in front of the most influential eyes in tech. In just 3 days, the exhibitor table deadline closes for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. And with only 10 tables still available (or fewer by the time you read this), every minute matters. If you’ve been on the fence, consider this your nudge. Disrupt 2025 isn’t just another conference. It’s the beating heart of the startup world — where founders launch, investors scout, and media take notice. Exhibiting here puts your startup on the radar of: Leading VCs looking for their next…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Sirianni is the son of a high school football coach, using what he learned from his dad into his own successful coaching career, first in college, then eventually in the NFL.Sirianni is a bit of a coaching lifer, and knows intricate details about the game.So it seemed a bit implausible when the Philadelphia Eagles coach confessed this week that he did not know the team was set to unveil its Super Bowl championship banner in a pregame ceremony ahead of the NFL season opener against Dallas on Thursday night.The more educated guess is that while Sirianni…

Hello there! Frustrated by the increase in tipping culture over the last few years? You’re not alone. McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said restaurants are “getting the customer to pay” for their workers with tipped wages.In today’s big story, a judge ruled on how Google will be penalized for its online seach monopoly.If this was forwarded to you, sign up here.The big storyGoogle stays intact Associated Press Google is … feeling lucky?A judge’s ruling on Google’s penalties for its online search monopoly didn’t leave the tech giant unscathed. Still, it largely avoided the severe punishments its prosecutor, the US government, was…

In the fitness class Jessie Syfko created for a nationwide gym chain, exercisers wear weighted vests that add a challenge to their workouts.“People start to realize how good it feels to work just a little bit harder and a little bit smarter” without actually changing what they’re doing, said Syfko, senior vice president for Life Time gyms.Weighted vests are increasingly showing up in fitness classes and on jogging tracks, touted by social media influencers as a way to keep bones healthy, improve performance and even accelerate weight loss. They are exactly what they sound like – vests that add resistance…

Startups don’t build themselves, and the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West — is where founders, operators, and investors get real about what it actually takes. This stage is all tactics, the nitty-gritty of turning an idea into a business that works. We’ve already announced heavy hitters like Elad Gil, Dick Costolo, and Ryan Petersen — and now the lineup is getting even bigger. New speakers, including Discord’s Jason Citron, and new sessions, like live demos of the latest robots, are joining the agenda. Expect fresh insights on everything from…

In the late 1990s, everyone was convinced that the internet was the future — and that by buying the stock of internet companies like the theGlobe.com you could get really rich.They were half-right: You’re reading this on the internet. But all that remains of theGlobe is a mothballed web domain.We could see the same thing this time around with AI, says Henry Blodget. And he says that wouldn’t be a bad thing.Blodget has a very particular perspective on booms and busts, since he was a central figure in the rise and fall of the first internet bubble. On the way…

Invites to Perplexity’s new AI-powered web browser, Comet, are one of the web’s hottest commodities these days. The new product was made available first to the AI firm’s $200-per-month Max subscribers and a small group of invitees. But now there’s a new way to jump ahead on the waitlist. On Wednesday, PayPal announced it’s giving its customers, including PayPal and Venmo users, early access to Comet as well as a free year’s subscription to Perplexity’s premium service, Perplexity Pro, normally $200 per year. The browser, launched in July, offers an integrated AI assistant, AI-generated summaries of search results, product comparisons,…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery,” and hampers parents’…