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If you’re a founder who planned to wait until the last minute … this is it. Today is the final day tosecure your exhibit tableatTechCrunch Disrupt 2025. If you want to get in front of more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders, connect with media, and generate a nonstop pipeline this October,you need to act now. […]

Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers. Imagine Lens allows users to create, edit, and recreate Snaps by entering their own prompts. They can then share the

Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra. Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer service AI agents, announced it raised a$350 million funding roundon Thursday. The round, led by earlier investor Greenoaks Capital, values the startup at $10 billion, according to a company blog post that confirmed anearlier reportfrom

The luxury membership platform Vivrelle, which allows customers to rent high-end goods, announced Thursday the launch of an AI personalstyling tool called Ellaas part of its partnership with fashion retailers Revolve and FWRD. The launch is an example of how the fashion industry is leveraging AI technology to enhance customer experiences and is one of

OpenAI says it’s developing an AI-powered hiring platform to connect businesses and employees, a service that would put the outfit in close competition with LinkedIn. The product is called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, and the company expects to launch the service by mid-2026, an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch. OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo announced

Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr toShopify for $2.1 billionin 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well. Abbott felt that many manual tasks in logistics could be automated using AI. That’s why last year he launched Augment which offers an AI assistant called ‘Augie’ that can take over tedious

Google’s latest video-generation model, Veo 3, is coming to Google Photos. The new model, available on the mobile app’s Create tab, will allow users in the U.S. to turn their still images into video clips. Google Photos already offers video generation through its recently added “Photo to video” feature, but the company says the addition

Cloud providerLambdamight be following rival CoreWeave to the public markets. Lambda, an AI infrastructure company offering on-demand GPUs, hashired banks for an upcoming IPO, according to reporting from The Information. Lambda has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi for a public listing that could happen as early as the first half of 2026.

Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators that has secured over $100 million in venture capital to date at a valuation of $500 million, is rebranding toMirage, the company announced on Thursday.  The new name reflects the company’s broader ambitions to become an AI research lab focused on multimodal foundational models

We’re in the final stretch — with just two days left and only 10 tables remaining, now is the time to act if you want to shine the light on your brand at one of the most anticipated tech conferences of the year. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025is coming to Moscone West in San Francisco this October