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Snapchat Makes Its First Open Prompt AI Lens Available for Free in the US
NewsOct 22, 2025

Snapchat Makes Its First Open Prompt AI Lens Available for Free in the US

Snapchat has made its Imagine Lens—its first open‑prompt image‑generation AI Lens—available free to all U.S. users after an initial paid rollout, offering a limited number of image generations and plans to expand to Canada, the U.K. and Australia. The tool...

By TechCrunch AI
Early Startups Need Visibility; Established Firms Need Content
SocialOct 22, 2025

Early Startups Need Visibility; Established Firms Need Content

Visibility or content — which one really drives growth? The answer depends on who you are and where you are. - For early-stage startups, visibility is everything - Founders with industry recognition can pull the brand forward - Their presence...

By A. Lee Judge
OpenAI Requested Memorial Attendee List in ChatGPT Suicide Lawsuit
NewsOct 22, 2025

OpenAI Requested Memorial Attendee List in ChatGPT Suicide Lawsuit

In a wrongful‑death suit over a teenager’s suicide, OpenAI sought the Raine family’s memorial attendee list and related photos/videos, a move the family’s lawyers called “intentional harassment” and that signals the company may try to subpoena friends and relatives. The...

By TechCrunch AI
AI Will Collapse Product Boundaries Into Unified Customer Agent
SocialOct 22, 2025

AI Will Collapse Product Boundaries Into Unified Customer Agent

AI is making everything look the same. Everything is trending towards a big text box asking "What do you want to do?" It won't be obvious how to respect our made-up product boundaries for users. For example why is "Show...

By Des Traynor
Orb Device Offers Iris‑Based Proof of Humanity Online
SocialOct 22, 2025

Orb Device Offers Iris‑Based Proof of Humanity Online

FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “I believe from your sense of humor that you’re human, but I have no way to know that’s true.” Adrian Ludwig (@adrian_ludwig) says Tools for Humanity (@tfh_technology), founded by Alex Blania (@alexblania) and Sam Altman (@sama), is...

By Matthew Berman
The Best Doorbell Cameras
NewsOct 22, 2025

The Best Doorbell Cameras

The Verge recommends Google’s Nest Doorbell (wired) as the best overall video doorbell, praising its 960×1280 video, 145° field of view, 24/7 recording capability and free smart person/package/vehicle alerts, with a retail price of $179.99. Key caveats: local storage only...

By The Verge
AI Video Creator: Profitable, Ready for Acquisition
SocialOct 22, 2025

AI Video Creator: Profitable, Ready for Acquisition

AI + video = huge market. This tool on @acquiredotcom helps creators generate and schedule short-form videos automatically. You can spin up YouTube Shorts, TikToks, and AI-style clips (even Pixar-like animations). Zero editing skills needed. > $107K TTM revenue > $79K profit > 100+ customers >...

By Andrew Gazdecki
When Sycophancy and Bias Meet Medicine
NewsOct 22, 2025

When Sycophancy and Bias Meet Medicine

The White House’s new “Make America Healthy Again” report was found to include fabricated citations, highlighting persistent AI failures—hallucination, sycophancy and opaque "black‑box" reasoning—that are already seeping into courts and policy. Despite these documented problems and examples such as OpenAI...

By Ars Technica AI
Key SaaS Metrics to Secure Your Series A
SocialOct 22, 2025

Key SaaS Metrics to Secure Your Series A

Essential SaaS Metrics for Your Series A Raise My latest post is live. Prep now. Not later. https://lnkd.in/g9AvcStd

By Ben Murray
Forrester AEGIS: The New Standard For AI Governance
NewsOct 22, 2025

Forrester AEGIS: The New Standard For AI Governance

Forrester released the AEGIS Framework for Agentic Security with a regulation‑aware crosswalk that maps 39 substantive controls to major AI governance standards, notably showing 100% alignment with both NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. Eighty percent of controls map to...

By Forrester Generative AI
Amazon Unveils AI Smart Glasses for Its Delivery Drivers
NewsOct 22, 2025

Amazon Unveils AI Smart Glasses for Its Delivery Drivers

Amazon is developing AI‑powered smart glasses for delivery drivers that enable hands‑free package scanning, turn‑by‑turn walking directions, proof‑of‑delivery capture, and hazard alerts using computer vision and onboard cameras. The glasses, paired with a vest controller that houses a swappable battery...

By TechCrunch AI
Smooth AI Browser Agent Offers Real-Time Serverless Automation
SocialOct 22, 2025

Smooth AI Browser Agent Offers Real-Time Serverless Automation

Smooth by @circlemind_ai is a real-time AI browser agent - and the fastest and most reliable one yet. It can autonomously perform any task on the web using mouse and keyboard. Infinitely scalable, production-ready, and secure, it's now available as a...

By YCombinator
ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into Global App‑Free Marketplace
SocialOct 22, 2025

ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into Global App‑Free Marketplace

Most people think OpenAI is chasing WeChat’s playbook. In reality, it’s building something even bigger. Here’s what’s really happening👇 In China, chat became the internet. You can book flights, pay bills, or order dinner inside one message window. That started...

By Ryan Allis
Teens Embrace AI Companions, Execs Doubt Workplace Adoption
SocialOct 22, 2025

Teens Embrace AI Companions, Execs Doubt Workplace Adoption

NPR reported that one in five high schoolers either has an AI companion or knows someone who has one. Common Sense Media found that 72% of teens have used AI companions, and 52% qualify as regular users. 13% are daily users....

By Allie Miller
What’s Updog? Datadog’s New Tool Tells You Which Apps Are Down
NewsOct 22, 2025

What’s Updog? Datadog’s New Tool Tells You Which Apps Are Down

Datadog launched Updog, a free web dashboard that shows real‑time status of dozens of major SaaS and cloud providers (AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Slack, etc.) and is positioned as a lightweight complement to its paid monitoring tools. Datadog says Updog uses...

By TechCrunch Apps
CFOs Share AI Strategies for Risk Reduction and Efficiency
SocialOct 22, 2025

CFOs Share AI Strategies for Risk Reduction and Efficiency

We're hosting an event next week for CFOs and Finance Teams in San Francisco. Hear from CFOs and leaders who have adopted AI to reduce risks, drive better decisions, and deliver efficiencies across FP&A, including: Amol Hardikar, CFO @Replit @john__glasgow, CEO & Co-founder...

By YCombinator
Chattanooga’s Santa Rosa Software Announces Partnership with Omega Orion to Develop Mobile App Solutions for IBM Z/OS
NewsOct 22, 2025

Chattanooga’s Santa Rosa Software Announces Partnership with Omega Orion to Develop Mobile App Solutions for IBM Z/OS

Chattanooga-based Santa Rosa Software, a 2023-founded provider of mobile applications for IBM z/OS, has partnered with application and website developer Omega Orion to add a mobile app development team and secure an Asia-Pacific distribution channel. The deal expands Santa Rosa’s...

By MarTech Series
Human-Controlled Tech Could Reduce Justice System Errors
SocialOct 22, 2025

Human-Controlled Tech Could Reduce Justice System Errors

FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Minority Report wasn’t all bad, it had one false positive in ten years. Our justice system has one every hour.” Garrett Langley (@glangley), Founder & CEO of @Flock_Safety, says he’s not predicting crimes. He’s arguing humans should...

By Matthew Berman
Feature Bloat Dilutes Focus, Turns Users Into Habit
SocialOct 22, 2025

Feature Bloat Dilutes Focus, Turns Users Into Habit

Somewhere along the way, growth stopped meaning progress and started meaning more. More features. More dashboards. More categories to chase. Every successful product faces this moment. You build something people love. It works. Then comes the temptation to widen the story....

By Hiten Shah
GM Is Bringing Google Gemini-Powered AI Assistant to Cars in 2026
NewsOct 22, 2025

GM Is Bringing Google Gemini-Powered AI Assistant to Cars in 2026

General Motors will roll out a Google Gemini‑powered conversational AI assistant across Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC vehicles starting in 2026, delivered as an over‑the‑air Play Store upgrade for OnStar‑equipped models back to 2015. The assistant promises more natural voice...

By TechCrunch AI
Diffusion Models Turn Satellite Roofs Into Full 3D Cities
SocialOct 22, 2025

Diffusion Models Turn Satellite Roofs Into Full 3D Cities

So these researchers figured out you can basically hallucinate 3D cities into existence using just satellite photos & a diffusion model. The problem's pretty straightforward: satellites only see rooftops. Building facades? Invisible. Street-level detail? Doesn't exist. But people want flyable 3D...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Accrual Accounting Essential for SaaS Founder Valuations
SocialOct 22, 2025

Accrual Accounting Essential for SaaS Founder Valuations

Many of the private SaaS founders we work with don't realize that recognizing revenue in accordance with principles of GAAP and accrual accounting is not just a practice for publicly traded companies. We've found that SaaS founders, for convenience and...

By Michael Lyon
YouTube AI Recognition Is Hunting Deepfakes of Popular Creators
NewsOct 22, 2025

YouTube AI Recognition Is Hunting Deepfakes of Popular Creators

YouTube has deployed AI tools to detect and flag deepfakes of popular creators, prioritizing members of its Partner Program — creators who meet thresholds such as 1,000 subscribers with 4,000 public watch hours in the past year or 1,000 subscribers...

By Mashable AI
Meta Cuts 600 AI Jobs Amid Ongoing Reorganization
NewsOct 22, 2025

Meta Cuts 600 AI Jobs Amid Ongoing Reorganization

Meta will cut about 600 roles from its super‑intelligence AI lab, Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said in an internal memo, part of a broader reorganization aimed at streamlining decision‑making and increasing individual impact. The reductions come after a summer...

By TechCrunch AI
UK Designates Apple and Google as Having ‘Strategic Market Status,’ Opening Door for More Regulation
NewsOct 22, 2025

UK Designates Apple and Google as Having ‘Strategic Market Status,’ Opening Door for More Regulation

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority has designated Apple and Google as having “strategic market status” for their mobile platforms — covering operating systems, app stores, browsers and browser engines — enabling targeted regulatory interventions to boost competition. After investigations...

By TechCrunch Apps
GM to Introduce Eyes-Off, Hands-Off Driving System in 2028
NewsOct 22, 2025

GM to Introduce Eyes-Off, Hands-Off Driving System in 2028

General Motors announced it will introduce an eyes‑off, hands‑off highway driving system in 2028, beginning with the Cadillac Escalade IQ, building on its existing Super Cruise technology that today covers about 600,000 miles of drivable highway and is available on...

By TechCrunch AI
Stop Treating AI as Magic—Build the Right Architecture
SocialOct 22, 2025

Stop Treating AI as Magic—Build the Right Architecture

The “AI black box” is killing momentum in GTM teams. And it’s no longer just a technical challenge, it’s an architecture problem. That’s the idea I explored in Chapter 2 of Ignite Your GTM with AI, a project brought to...

By Mark Roberge
Reachy Mini Beta Enables AI Development Pre‑Hardware
SocialOct 22, 2025

Reachy Mini Beta Enables AI Development Pre‑Hardware

We just released the beta version of the open-source software for Reachy Mini! It means that anyone, thanks to the amazing @GoogleDeepMind mujoco simulation platform, can start building @huggingface spaces, datasets and models, even if you haven't received your robot...

By Clément Delangue
Several Users Reportedly Complain to FTC that ChatGPT Is Causing Psychological Harm
NewsOct 22, 2025

Several Users Reportedly Complain to FTC that ChatGPT Is Causing Psychological Harm

At least seven people have filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging ChatGPT caused severe psychological harm—including delusions, paranoia and emotionally manipulative interactions—based on public records dating back to November 2022. Complainants say prolonged conversations produced cognitive hallucinations...

By TechCrunch AI
Winning Startups Choose Either Full Office or Full Remote
SocialOct 22, 2025

Winning Startups Choose Either Full Office or Full Remote

One of the best CEOs I know said to me the other day, "I wish we'd never allowed work from home I know this is a complex issue even today, and for many, a triggering one. What I can tell you in...

By Jason Lemkin
Which Side of AI Safety Community Are You?
SocialOct 22, 2025

Which Side of AI Safety Community Are You?

Fellow AI safety nerds: Which side of the AI safety community are you in? https://t.co/rzEVUhTyps https://t.co/yT0QMGbolF

By Max Tegmark
SaaS Growth Depends More on Reducing Churn than Acquisition
SocialOct 22, 2025

SaaS Growth Depends More on Reducing Churn than Acquisition

No matter how great you are at acquiring new customers… If you keep losing customers due to churn… You’ll never reach significant amounts of revenue. SaaS businesses only work if you have churn under control. Here’s the big question…

By TK Kader
AI Agent Ruth Cuts SaaS Costs with Data‑Driven Negotiations
SocialOct 22, 2025

AI Agent Ruth Cuts SaaS Costs with Data‑Driven Negotiations

Ruth from @VendrHQ is the AI negotiation agent for SaaS. Trained on data billions in spend data, she helps you benchmark prices, plan negotiations, and save money. https://t.co/7Y962NhyWR https://t.co/7mYfR4sVsy

By YCombinator
Good AI/ML Jobs Are Harder to Find Than Ever
SocialOct 22, 2025

Good AI/ML Jobs Are Harder to Find Than Ever

finding a job in ai/ml is hard these days. finding a good job in ai/ml is harder.

By Abhishek Thakur
Zuck Decries Closed Platforms While Blocking AI Bots
SocialOct 22, 2025

Zuck Decries Closed Platforms While Blocking AI Bots

Zuck: Get me talking about closed platforms and I get angry Also Zuck: No other AI chatbots on @WhatsApp

By Nick Turley
2026 Social Media Marketing: 36 Key Predictions
SocialOct 22, 2025

2026 Social Media Marketing: 36 Key Predictions

36 Predictions for #SocialMedia Marketing in 2026 https://t.co/Am8e2QArNb

By Marissa Pick
Agent Skills vs MCP: Complementary Roles in AI
SocialOct 22, 2025

Agent Skills vs MCP: Complementary Roles in AI

New video! Agent Skills vs MCP: Which Is Better? A short video to understand why both exist and where each sits in the AI ecosystem. https://t.co/PodcbFyLFW https://t.co/PodcbFyLFW

By Louis Bouchard
Price by Value, Not Deliverables: Charge for Client’s $1M Gain
SocialOct 22, 2025

Price by Value, Not Deliverables: Charge for Client’s $1M Gain

The difference between a $10K/month deal and a $100K/month deal? It’s not the deliverables. It’s the value of hitting the client's goals. So what's a fair fee for your services if you help your client make an extra $1m this year? https://t.co/tJgFFGVOmc

By Eric Siu
Key Features That Boost Team Performance + 2025 Picks
SocialOct 22, 2025

Key Features That Boost Team Performance + 2025 Picks

Team Performance Software: What Features Truly Move the Needle + Top Picks for 2025 - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/GOdkGAzPRf

By Tom Pick
Mulligan Launches AI Platform Automating Commercial Insurance Brokerage
SocialOct 22, 2025

Mulligan Launches AI Platform Automating Commercial Insurance Brokerage

Mulligan (https://t.co/KlkcVLe0fK) is an end-to-end AI automation platform for commercial insurance brokerages. It can quote, generate submissions and proposals, compare policies, and more. https://t.co/JgQmbPdU3T Congrats on the launch, @araghuvanshi2! https://t.co/onyFYz8ylh

By YCombinator
AI Workshops Empower Businesses, Even Seasoned Executives Celebrate
SocialOct 22, 2025

AI Workshops Empower Businesses, Even Seasoned Executives Celebrate

I’m fixing and transforming businesses across the world with AI executive workshops, board meetings, org-wide courses, and advising sessions. It’s emails like this that keep me motivated - from someone in their 50s or 60s. https://t.co/WbdwClfjYG

By Allie Miller
B2B Shifts Focus From Reach to Relevance
SocialOct 22, 2025

B2B Shifts Focus From Reach to Relevance

From Reach to Relevance: How #B2B Marketers Are Rewriting the Advertising Playbook https://t.co/yB5Ez8BKPv

By Marissa Pick
Tempo Secures $5M to Revolutionize React Design Tools
SocialOct 22, 2025

Tempo Secures $5M to Revolutionize React Design Tools

Tempo (@Tempo_Labs) has raised $5M to build the best design tool for design engineers. Unlike other vibecoding tools, Tempo integrates with any React codebase and allows designers to control every pixel by hand. Congrats to the team! https://t.co/GmPMka8o0H https://t.co/27HsMZBzkd

By YCombinator
Automate End-to-End Video Production with Sora 2 + N8n
SocialOct 22, 2025

Automate End-to-End Video Production with Sora 2 + N8n

Another wild one from Nate Herkelman. He just hooked up Sora 2 + @n8n_io to automate video creation process end to end 🤯 → Text-to-video → Image-to-video → Cameos → Storyboards → Prompting best practices → Avoiding common errors Full 28-min video tutorial in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/ypqVqvpPVD

By Data Chaz
Boost Sales Pipeline Using Personalized LinkedIn Ads
SocialOct 22, 2025

Boost Sales Pipeline Using Personalized LinkedIn Ads

Accelerate Pipeline with 1:1 LinkedIn Ads & More https://t.co/zhd7SKhqTN

By Eric Siu
Agency Leads Plummet 30‑50% Amid Weak Economic Sentiment
SocialOct 22, 2025

Agency Leads Plummet 30‑50% Amid Weak Economic Sentiment

General economic sentiment is crappy right now. Google and LinkedIn reps have seen increased CPLs and decreased volume. With our client data, we can see similar things. Agency businesses are seeing a 30-50% decrease in MoM leads. In some cases, 80%.

By Eric Siu
Ease Over Features: Treat Focus as a Feature
SocialOct 22, 2025

Ease Over Features: Treat Focus as a Feature

Users don’t remember how much you can do. They remember how easy it was to do the thing they came for. Focus is a feature. Treat it like one.

By Hiten Shah
Articulate Cuts Construction Delays, Saves Millions
SocialOct 22, 2025

Articulate Cuts Construction Delays, Saves Millions

Articulate (@Use_Articulate) is the construction and solar painkiller. It catches design issues early, auto-detects clashes, and generates RFls. It also streamlines crew communication and procurement to save millions of dollars and prevent costly delays. https://t.co/yrwr7oqADo Congrats on the launch, @milinds24 & @BlakePasse!

By YCombinator
OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Vulnerable to Prompt Injection
SocialOct 22, 2025

OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Vulnerable to Prompt Injection

Looks like @OpenAI’s Atlas browser can easily be tricked with prompt injection 👀 Good catch, @p1njc70r 👊 https://t.co/UMsWN1NMzu

By Data Chaz