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AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI...
Why Did Sundar Pichai Post 3 Bananas? The Genius Launch Behind Google’s ‘Nano-Banana’ AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai stirred a storm on social media by tweeting three emojis—a cryptic yet playful nod that ultimately revealed something extraordinary: the launch of a game-changing AI tool....
Wikipedia’s AI Cleanup Crew: Volunteers Wage War Against “Slop” for the Sake of Trust
Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are standing guard against a new kind of threat—one that doesn’t vandalize or troll, but quietly slips in through plausible writing with fabricated citations and subtle inaccuracies....
How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI
Whether AI is a bubble or not, it's helping some small businesses save real money. Here's how one has cautiously approached adoption.
7 Pandas Tricks for Efficient Data Merging
Data merging is the process of combining data from different sources into a unified dataset.
AI security wars: Can Google Cloud defend against tomorrow’s threats?
In Google’s sleek Singapore office at Block 80, Level 3, Mark Johnston stood before a room of technology journalists at 1:30 PM with a startling admission: after five decades of...
Agentic AI: Promise, scepticism, and its meaning for Southeast Asia
Agentic AI is being talked about as the next major wave of artificial intelligence, but its meaning for enterprises remains to be settled. Capgemini Research Institute estimates agentic AI could...
From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care
Over the past 20 years building advanced AI systems—from academic labs to enterprise deployments—I’ve witnessed AI’s waves of success rise and fall. My journey began during the “AI Winter,” when...
Introducing gpt-realtime and Realtime API updates
We’re releasing a more advanced speech-to-speech model and new API capabilities including MCP server support, image input, and SIP phone calling support.
Tencent Hunyuan Video-Foley brings lifelike audio to AI video
A team at Tencent’s Hunyuan lab has created a new AI, ‘Hunyuan Video-Foley,’ that finally brings lifelike audio to generated video. It’s designed to listen to videos and generate a...