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The Startup Battlefield 200 judges wholl decide the winner at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made Startup Battlefield. Only 20 will pitch on the Disrupt…

After Factorys public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests | TechCrunch

Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy and his team announced Monday in a blog post that the…

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost | TechCrunch

Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup…

Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account | TechCrunch

Instinct, the AI agent now valued at $10 billion as of its latest funding round, is…

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

TikTok announced Monday that it’s launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature…

At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI | TechCrunch

For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math…

Hot Girl Hotline is like Dear Abby for the AI era | TechCrunch

Women throughout history have always sought out relationship advice, whether from newspaper columnists like “Dear Abby,”…

5 startups that caught VCs attention at the latest PearX demo day | TechCrunch

There isn’t a shortage of accelerators for startups, but one of the few that investors watch…

Satya Nadella reinvented Microsoft once. Can he do it again in the AI era?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft AI Tour event in Munich, Germany, on Feb.…

HackerRanks AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become | TechCrunch

What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? HackerRanka platform used by…