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The founders who previouslysold their livestreaming video startup Periscopeto Twitter are back with a new startup — and no surprise, it’s an AI-focused company this time around. On Wednesday, former Twitter head of productKayvon Beykpourannounced the launch ofMacroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches […]

Nvidia just got shut out of the Chinese market — this time by the Chinese government instead of the US.   China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips on Wednesday, as first reported by theFinancial Times.   The agency also told tech companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to stop testing and ordering

From stealth mode to center stage, Mach Industries is bringing AI into one of the world’s most complex and controversial sectors: defense. AtTechCrunch Disrupt 2025,Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto theAI Stageto share what it takes to build in high-stakes environments where speed and autonomy matter most — and why next-gen

Seller Assistant can now not only monitor account health and inventory, but also help develop strategies and take action when authorized, Amazon says. For example, when a seller is reviewing their inventory, Seller Assistant will flag slow-moving products before they incur long-term storage fees and recommend whether it would make sense to leave the item

Lovablehas quickly become one of the most talked-about startups of the year, breaking records and making headlines as one of the fastest-growing software companies in history. To mark the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch, co-founder and CEOAnton Osikawill take the Disrupt Stage to discussLovable and the Future of Consumer Tech. Join us atTechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October

As speed becomes the defining currency in an AI-driven software world,Blacksmithhas raised another round led by Google Ventures — just four months after its seed — to accelerate how code gets shipped. The $10 million Series A closed in just 14 days, with Google Ventures doubling down after first backing Blacksmith’s $3.5 million seed in

As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies will need to think about safety differently than they did when robots were largely siloed from their human counterparts.   Sonairthinks its sensors can help robotics companies reach their safety goals — with a solution that is both better and cheaper than popular LIDAR technology.   The Oslo, Norway-based

Meta Connect 2025 — the company’s biggest conference of the year where it unveils smart glasses and VR headsets — kicks off on Wednesday night. We’re expecting the star of Meta Connect 2025 to be the company’s new AI-powered smart glasses with Ray-Ban and Oakley, but the company may have some other surprises in store

For years, Big Tech CEOs have touted visions ofAI agentsthat can autonomously use software applications to complete tasks for people. But take today’s consumer AI agents out for a spin, whether it’s OpenAI’sChatGPT Agentor Perplexity’sComet, and you’ll quickly realize how limited the technology still is. Making AI agents more robust may take a new set

Harjot Gill was running FlexNinja, an observability startup he co-founded several years after selling his first startupNetsil to Nutanixin 2018, when he noticed a curious trend.   “We had a team of remote engineers who were starting to adopt AI code generation on GitHub Copilot,” Gill told TechCrunch. “We saw that adoption happen, and it