Adam, one of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 million seed round to power its next steps, TechCrunch learned exclusively.
After generating over 10 million social media impressions with the launch of its text-to-3D model app, the AI startup had its pick of investors.
“We were getting term sheets over email without any meetings,” said…
Reddit CEO says chatbots are not a traffic driver
November 3, 2025
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said AI chatbots aren’t a major traffic driver for the social platform despite companies like OpenAI and Google having seen progress in people using AI for search. During Reddit’s Q3 2025 call, the exec noted that Google search and direct…
Nvidia expands AI ties with Hyundai, Samsung, SK, Naver
November 3, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea for the first time in 15 years to unveil new plans and deepen collaboration with major Korean tech companies – including Hyundai Motor, Samsung, SK, and Naver. During this week’s APEC Summit 2025, Nvidia and the…
Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie doesn’t think AI agents will replace enterprise SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies. Instead, he believes that the more likely future is a hybrid combination of SaaS plus agents, he said, speaking onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Wednesday.
“Generally, once you have a business process, you want to be able to define that in…
Most people tracking their health today end up with scattered clues. Their smartwatch shows sleep duration. A fitness app logs steps. A nutrition app counts calories. Yet few tools help people understand how all of this fits together.
Bevel, a New York-based startup…
Google partners with Ambani’s Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India
October 31, 2025
In a push to expand its AI footprint in emerging markets, Google has partnered with billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries to bundle its AI Pro subscription with Jio 5G plans at no extra cost.
On Thursday, Google announced a partnership with Reliance…
How AI labs use Mercor to get the data companies won’t share
October 30, 2025
Instead of signing expensive contracts with companies for their data, AI labs these days are trying a new tack: tapping former senior employees from those companies for their industry knowledge, Mercor CEO Brendan Foody said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on Tuesday.
Speaking on a panel onstage, Foody cast Mercor’s marketplace as one of the main channels connecting the former employees of…
Character.AI is ending its chatbot experience for kids
October 30, 2025
Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI companies have given them chatbots designed to never stop talking. The…
Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping
October 30, 2025
When Phia‘s founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni decided to build an AI startup, they targeted an area they understood well: online shopping.
The founders, who met at Stanford when they were randomly paired up as roommates, understood e-commerce because they had…
OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization
October 29, 2025
OpenAI on Tuesday said it had completed its recapitalization, splitting the AI lab into a for-profit corporation nested inside a non-profit foundation. It’s the end result of a complex legal process that had been strenuously resisted by its estranged co-founder, Elon Musk.
Under the new structure, the non-profit OpenAI Foundation will have legal control over a public benefit corporation…
