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TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

Hot Girl Hotline is like 'Dear Abby' for the AI era

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.

HackerRank's AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become

HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.

OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results

OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after your image generation results appear in the U.S. only for now.

Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher

Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.

Italy’s Meloni follows pop stars in seeking to trademark her voice to combat AI deepfakes

ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice with the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office, seeking to protect herself against AI-generated deepfakes.

Open or Closed AI? Learn What to Build On at Disrupt 2026

Learn how founders are choosing between building on open or closed AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.

Nvidia’s $20bn licensing deal with Groq faces lawsuit from jilted engineers

Employees of start-up say they were short-changed when the chip titan left them out of the ‘acqui-hire’ transaction

Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI 'agent fleet'

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

The dangerous myth behind AI agent hacks

These are not simply cyber security flaws but problems with the way that models are trained

Sen. Adam Schiff on making Congress relevant in the AI age

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The Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at Disrupt 2026

The final five Startup Battlefield judges who'll decide who wins the pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Get your pass now to save up to $100.