It's not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down: Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. Read More
Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product: Krieger's departure and any forthcoming design tools will be another data point for investors who fear the SaaSpocalypse — that the largest AI labs will come to dominate software businesses, a thesis that has rocked public markets at times this year. Read More
Everything we like is a psyop: If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking. Read More
Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite
Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum.
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OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop: OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities. Read More
Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation: Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue. Read More
DeepL, known for text translation, now wants to translate your voice: DeepL says its tech could be used for real-time translation with meeting tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Read More
This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI: Antioch raised an $8.5 million seed round to create simulation tools for a new generation of robot builders. Read More
Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught: The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain. Read More
StrictlyVC kicks off the series in SF on April 30. Be in the room for unfiltered fireside chats on fundraising and AI accuracy with industry leaders like Forum AI founder Campbell Brown, Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, and more. Make high-value connections that actually move the needle. Tickets are limited.
Google adds Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini's Personal Intelligence: That means its AI images can be created using Gemini's understanding of your likes and interests, without those having to be explicitly noted in the prompt. Read More