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On Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz released itsfirst AI Spending Reportin partnership with the fintech firm Mercury. Using transaction data from Mercury, the report analyzes the top 50 AI-native application layer companies that startups are spending money on, similar to the previously publishedTop 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps.  A16z partners Olivia Mooe and Seema Amble say the […]

Consumer AI is having its breakout moment — and few startups have captured the spotlight this year quite likePhia. The AI-powered shopping assistant has become one of 2025’s buzziest launches, not only for its vision of how Gen Z shops, but also for the powerhouse founders leading it:Phoebe GatesandSophia Kianni. AtTechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October

OpenAI has sold $6.6 billion in shares held by current and former employees, according to a new report fromBloomberg. The sale pushed OpenAI’s total valuation to $500 billion, the highest ever achieved by a privately held company. Purchasers included SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, MGX, and T. Rowe Price, the report said. The sale

Ticktock! The Founder and Investor Bundle sale forTechCrunch Disrupt 2025ends tomorrow, October 3, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, founders will no longer be able to register in bulk at a discount, and investors will drop back to the standard 15% savings. Don’t miss your chance to save more andsupercharge your Disrupt experience as a

Sequoia-backed AI design startup Visual Electricsaid that it is joining search startup Perplexity today. The company noted on its site that the team would be joining a new Agent Experiences group at Perplexity. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s CEO, confirmed the acquisition with a post on X. We've acquired @visualelectric. The team led by @colin_dunn and @adammenges

Salesforce Inc. is expanding its artificial intelligence platform with new data management and governance capabilities, aiming to address what the company says is a crisis in enterprise AI adoption where more than 80% of projects fail to deliver meaningful business value. The San Francisco-based software giant announced Thursday a suite of new tools designed to

IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost requirements. Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), "Big Blue" as its

Presented by HubSpot INBOUND, HubSpot's annual conference for marketing and sales professionals, took place in San Francisco this year, with three days of insights and events across marketing, sales, CX, and AI innovation. It was a mix of the new, like the Creators Corner and the Tech Stack Showcase Stage, and the familiar, like HubSpot

Several current and former OpenAI researchers are speaking out over the company’s first foray into social media:the Sora app, a TikTok-style feed filled with AI-generated videos and a lot ofSam Altman deepfakes. The researchers, airing their grievances on X, seem torn over how the launch fits into OpenAI’s nonprofit mission to develop advanced AI that

SB 53, the AI safety and transparency bill that California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law this week, is proof that state regulation doesn’t have to hinder AI progress.   So says Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at youth-led advocacy group Encode AI, on today’s episode of Equity.  “The reality is that policy makers themselves know that we have to do something, and