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5d ago

Show HN: I built an AI that audits businesses. It’s first job was to catch me

I built an AI that audits businesses. I ran it on my own startup. It caught me over-crediting my own business. Score: 34/100. It cut my own score. Most founders…

Hacker News Tools & Products
5d ago

Desktop AI for ops is still subsidized

I'd like to share an opinion on the current situation in AI ops, not the coding/tech side. Right now the market has a pretty clear pattern. Big labs like OpenAI,…

Hacker News Research & Industry
5d ago

Show HN: Mu, two-minute visualized lessons on modern AI

Hi HN, I am Sreedath Panat. A year ago, I had started a habit of making small explainer videos of 2-3 minutes to help me understand, in a nutshell, some…

Hacker News Model Releases
6d ago

Show HN: Rubato – Retro-Mac desk device mirrors AI coding state-ESP8266

Hi everyone! I have built an AI health device (ESP8266 + 240*240 screen). It can show AI Agents' status in real time with breathing bubble. And remind user dringking water,…

TechCrunch Funding & Business
6d ago

XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

Hacker News Tools & Products
6d ago

Show HN: Tesoro.help – rogue AI helpdesk for my kid’s high school

My kid just started high school. The way they communicate information is absolutely insane. So I built a web scraper + MCP to aggregate it all, then layered on a…

TechCrunch Funding & Business
6d ago

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

Hacker News Model Releases
6d ago

Show HN: Sageling – a local AI agent for Mac, Qwen 3.5 9B in-process via MLX

A lot of my non-developer friends still think that AI is basically just Google or something you ask to write something and then copy paste it around... if they use…

Hacker News Model Releases
6d ago

Local AI for Submitting Job Applications

I've submitted almost 200 job applications over the course of almost 5 days using only local AI. I can't talk too much about the tech stack here (it's running at…

TechCrunch Model Releases
6d ago

What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge…

TechCrunch Model Releases
6d ago

Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge…

TechCrunch Tools & Products
6d ago

Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event

Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes…

TechCrunch Model Releases
6d ago

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

TechCrunch Tools & Products
6d ago

The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
7d ago

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.

TechCrunch Funding & Business
7d ago

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.

TechCrunch Tools & Products
7d ago

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.

TechCrunch Model Releases
7d ago

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."

TechCrunch Model Releases
7d ago

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Most AI tools allow you to opt-out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on…

TechCrunch Research & Industry
8d ago

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

Hacker News Model Releases
7d ago

Show HN: A Context Registry for AI coding agents

Hi HN. We built an API context registry to help coding agents (like Claude Code) generate production-ready API integration code without blowing through token limits. We build a lot of…

TechCrunch Model Releases
7d ago

Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in…

Hacker News Research & Industry
7d ago

Show HN: Oconee Runtime – Policy enforcement for browser AI and coding agents

AI agents are changing the enterprise security boundary. Prompt-level controls are no longer enough when AI can execute commands, modify files, invoke tools, and act against enterprise resources.

TechCrunch Tools & Products
8d ago

Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into…