Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down
Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.
Read moreAttorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens.
Read moreGoogle Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment
Google's Gemini comes up short on kids' safety, says Common Sense Media.
Read moreCutting through the equity noise: Don’t miss this powerhouse panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join.
Read moreWhich Email Checker Tool Offers the Most Accurate Results?
When it comes to email marketing or outreach, accuracy is everything. You can craft the perfect message, design eye-catching templates, and build strong campaigns, but if your emails never reach the inbox, all that effort goes to waste. That’s where email checker tools come in. These tools promise to verify
Read moreDigital detox: 4 Tips on How to Take a Safe Break from Screens
According to research by Meltwater, South African Internet users spend an average of 9 hours and 37 minutes online every day. That is significantly higher than the global average of 6 hours and 38 minutes. This shows just how deeply devices are woven into our lives, and why it’s worth
Read moreThe Alarming Rise of Digital Scams in SA
One of the fastest-growing online threats facing South Africans today is the rise of digital scams. According to Statista, as of January 2024, women aged 25 to 34 made up 15.8% of all social media users in South Africa—a slightly higher share than their male counterparts (14.9%) in the same
Read moreScale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem
Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.
Read moreOpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex
The team behind Alex, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
Read moreThe blueprint for lasting companies and communities with Discord’s Jason Citron and Campuswire’s Tade Oyerinde at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last."
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