Discover how Harry Qi and his team built Motion, an AI-powered productivity app, growing to $10M ARR and raising $75M to transform SMB workflows with integrated AI agents.
SF’s Anthropic Backs California AI Safety Bill After Newsom Vetoed 1st Attempt
The endorsement makes Anthropic the first large AI company to back the landmark artificial intelligence legislation by state Sen. Scott Wiener.
Vodafone Tests AI Virtual Actor for Social Media Telecom Promotions
Vodafone is testing an AI-generated virtual actor for promoting telecom products on social media, aiming to reduce costs and enhance personalization. This aligns with broader AI adoption in operations, like network optimization and customer service via Microsoft partnerships. While raising job displacement concerns, it signals AI’s role in reshaping marketing, with potential for automated sales funnels.
Build and scale adoption of AI agents for education with Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and LibreChat
This post demonstrates how to quickly build sophisticated AI agents using Strands Agents, scale them reliably with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and make them accessible through LibreChat’s familiar interface to drive immediate user adoption across your institution.
Skai uses Amazon Bedrock Agents to significantly improve customer insights by revolutionized data access and analysis
Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is an AI-driven omnichannel advertising and analytics platform designed for brands and agencies to plan, launch, optimize, and measure paid media across search, social, retail media marketplaces and other “walled-garden” channels from a single interface. In this post, we share how Skai used Amazon Bedrock Agents to improve data access and analysis and improve customer insights.
Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor' to sell its products instead of paying a human to do it
Vodafone made a commercial starring an AI avatar posing as a real lady. She has clumpy hair and an off-putting way of acting.
Judge reviews $1.5B Anthropic settlement proposal with authors over pirated books for AI training
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has begun reviewing a landmark class-action settlement agreement between the artificial intelligence company Anthropic and book authors who say the company took…
Cognition AI defies turbulence with a $400M raise at $10.2B valuation
Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures.
Google’s AI Mode adds 5 new languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean
Google’s AI Mode is rolling out in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC […]