News•Oct 14, 2025
OpenAI Unveils “Wellness” Council; Suicide Prevention Expert Not Included
OpenAI has established an Expert Council on Wellness and AI to enhance ChatGPT's safety features amid increasing scrutiny following a lawsuit alleging the chatbot acted as a "suicide coach" for a teenager. The council comprises eight experts in technology's impact on mental health, including notable figures like David Bickham and Mathilde Cerioli, though it notably lacks suicide prevention specialists, raising concerns among advocates for comprehensive mental health protections. This initiative aims to refine ChatGPT's functionalities for youth usage, focusing on understanding children's interactions with AI, while also introducing parental controls to mitigate risks associated with harmful behaviors. As OpenAI seeks to balance the potential benefits of AI in mental health with necessary safeguards, the effectiveness of these measures will be crucial in addressing public and regulatory concerns surrounding AI technology.
By Ars Technica AI
Social•Oct 14, 2025
RB2B Fuels Growth Amid Core Business Stagnation
Retention.com & RB2B grew 1.2% in Sep '25 to $25.6m ARR. RB2B grew 5.6% to $6.3m ARR and Retention shrank 0.7% to $19.5m ARR. Here's the good, bad, and ugly that happened last month: GOOD: - RB2B hit $6m ARR...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Blend McDonald’s Speed with Five‑Star Quality
Perfection at scale That should be the goal of any brand. With scale being defined on your own terms. Human nature always takes the easy road. That's why McDonald's became a multi-billion-dollar empire. They didn't sell the best food. They sold simplicity. Walk in → see pictures...
By Krista Mollion
News•Oct 14, 2025
Google Meet Launches an AI-Powered Makeup Feature
Google Meet has introduced an AI-powered makeup filter, enhancing its "Portrait touch-up" feature to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The filter provides users with 12 customizable makeup options that remain consistent during movement, ensuring a natural...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Seven Steps to Master Modern Large Language Models
🚀 7 steps to master #LLMs 👇 1️⃣ Understand NLP & transformers 2️⃣ Explore BERT, GPT, XLNet 3️⃣ Pre-train models 4️⃣ Fine-tune for tasks 5️⃣ Align & evaluate fairness 6️⃣ Measure accuracy & fluency 7️⃣ Build real LLM apps (chatbots, translation, content gen) Mastering LLMs = mastering modern...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Capture Attention in First 30 Seconds to Keep Ideas Alive
Brilliant ideas die if your audience doesn't engage. Your message is too important to let this happen. Planning how you'll keep your audience engaged is so simple and so critical. There's a ton of advice out there, but here are 3 of...
By Nancy Duarte
News•Oct 14, 2025
Gmail Now Uses AI to Help You Find Meeting Times
Google has introduced a new AI-powered feature in Gmail called "Help me schedule," which streamlines the process of finding and suggesting meeting times based on users' Google Calendar availability and the context of email exchanges. By utilizing the Gemini AI,...
By The Verge
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Yamaha's Motoroid 2: Riderless, Self‑Balancing Electric Bike
#Yamaha has unveiled the Motoroid 2, a self-balancing electric #motorcycle capable of riderless operation. Equipped with AMCES and AI-driven #gyroscopes, it can navigate and maintain balance autonomously while responding to facial recognition and gesture controls. @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus...
By Amitav Bhattacharjee
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Swap “Brand” For “Reputation” To Build B2B Value
Is "brand" a dirty word in B2B Marketing? At IAA Global Brand Summit today, the first panel touched on the notion of brand, which is often thought of as a dirty word in B2B marketing, not something to invest in vs...
By Lee Odden
News•Oct 14, 2025
Coco Robotics Taps UCLA Professor to Lead New Physical AI Research Lab
Coco Robotics has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab, aiming to leverage five years of data collected from its last-mile delivery robots. The company, which has gathered millions of...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Oct 14, 2025
AI Learns in Self‑created Worlds, Complementing Human Data
Agent-generated worlds? Yes, instead of using human data. AI has long depended on human data, but this supply is limited, biased, and legally contested. Agent-generated worlds offer an alternative, where AI learns inside simulated environments it creates and inhabits. These synthetic...
By Robert Scoble
News•Oct 14, 2025
KERV.ai’s Interactive, Shoppable Solutions Are Now Available Across Amazon’s Portfolio of O&O and 3P Premium Inventory
KERV.ai has partnered with Amazon Ads to launch shoppable, interactive advertising solutions across Amazon’s premium inventory, including platforms like Prime Video and Fire TV. This collaboration allows brands to leverage KERV's advanced AI-driven creative capabilities, enabling seamless integration into their...
By MarTech Series
News•Oct 14, 2025
You’ll Soon Be Able to Shop Walmart From ChatGPT
Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to introduce a feature allowing customers to shop for products directly through ChatGPT, enhancing the online shopping experience for groceries and household essentials. This new capability, set to launch later this fall, will include a...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Oct 14, 2025
ChatGPT Lifts Limits, Adds Personality and Adult Content
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we...
By Sam Altman
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Greeting the Community with a Friendly Hello
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By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 14, 2025
AI Builders Draft Fast, but Miss Core Details
AI website builders are like interns on caffeine. Fast, but forgetful. We tested 19 AI website builders. Generated 51 landing pages. Scored them across 60 UX, CRO, and SEO criteria. Most skipped basics like testimonials, pricing clarity, and brand identity. The best ones (Base44,...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Anduril’s EagleEye + Lattice Delivers God‑mode Battlefield Awareness
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter IRL. Anduril's new headset EagleEye combines night vision, thermal and AR to overlay real-time 3D tracking of friendlies & enemies in the real world. The headset is no doubt amazing, but the killer app here is...
By Bilawal Sidhu
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Leverage Human Touch to Win in the AI Era
Want to see my new keynote? It's all about how to use the human touch to out-perform your competition in the age of AI and automation. It might be my best work, ever. I'm doing the whole talk for you. No...
By Jay Baer
News•Oct 14, 2025
Analogic Corporation and Analytical AI Announce Strategic Partnership for Enhanced Security Detection Capabilities
Analogic Corporation has entered a strategic partnership with Analytical AI to integrate advanced artificial intelligence threat detection into its ConneCT Checkpoint and SeleCT Checked Baggage Computed Tomography (CT) systems. This collaboration aims to enhance security detection capabilities for Analogic’s extensive...
By MarTech Series
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Learn AI-Driven Multi-Modal Coworking in 5 Days
Resist the urge to see this as a gimmicky art game. See this as multi-modal coworking. Imagine coworking on business processes. Or hardware design. Or flowcharts. Or product manuals. Or powerpoints. Or dynamic visualizations during a meeting or offsite. . . . I built a free...
By Allie Miller
Social•Oct 14, 2025
AI Shifts Toward Open-Source, Fine‑Tuned Specialized Models
Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in AI? Feels like we’re moving from a world obsessed with generalist LLM APIs to one where more and more companies are training, optimizing, and running their own models built on open source...
By Clément Delangue
News•Oct 14, 2025
Force Management Launches Ascender AI to Power Its Sales Acceleration Platform with Built-In Intelligence
Force Management has unveiled Ascender AI, a sophisticated addition to its Ascender revenue acceleration platform, designed to provide real-time coaching and content navigation for sales personnel. This AI-driven assistant leverages Force Management’s established methodologies, offering personalized guidance based on individual...
By MarTech Series
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Creator‑Led Ads Define B2B Brand Era
I'm really excited to be joining some incredible people in a session at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) Creative Effectiveness Day this Thursday in NYC. In the session, "The New B2B Playbook: How Creator-Led Advertising Builds Distinctive Brands," I'll be joining...
By Liam Moroney
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Blueprint Hub Delivers Proven
It's one thing to put a tool in people's hands. It's another to show them exactly how to use it to achieve the results they need. That's why I'm SO excited about the new Blueprints hub our team just launched! We're putting...
By Latane Conant
News•Oct 14, 2025
Red Hat Brings Distributed AI Inference to Production AI Workloads with Red Hat AI 3
Red Hat has launched Red Hat AI 3, a comprehensive update to its enterprise AI platform designed to streamline the deployment of AI workloads from proof-of-concept to production. This platform integrates key components such as the Red Hat AI Inference...
By MarTech Series
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Agency Giants Falter as AI‑Savvy Startups Surge
Spoke to a guy who works at 75,000 person agency yesterday. He thinks they’re toast. In fact, he thinks all the agency holding companies are in trouble. First, they’re too slow when it comes to AI adoption. He said it’s akin to...
By Eric Siu
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Master Venture Capital to Accelerate SaaS Growth
Lesson 19 of 30 SaaS Growth System: How to Raise Venture Capital 滋 In this lesson, I dive into the world of venture capital, growth funding and the intricate process of securing investments for high-growth technology companies. I share insights on the...
By Ryan Allis
News•Oct 14, 2025
Zight Enhances Support Workflows with Request Video Logs, Zendesk Upgrades, and a New Integration Marketplace
Zight has announced three significant updates aimed at enhancing customer support workflows through its AI-powered visual communication platform. Key improvements include the introduction of session-level technical logs for its Request Video feature, a new Integration Marketplace for seamless connectivity with...
By MarTech Series
News•Oct 14, 2025
Storyblok Unveils CMS Innovations that Enable Brands to Stay Visible and Confident on the New Web
Storyblok has launched innovative features and partnerships aimed at enhancing content management for brands navigating the AI-driven digital landscape. Key developments include the introduction of Strata, which provides deep content analytics, and FlowMotion, an automation layer that streamlines content workflows...
By MarTech Series
Blog•Oct 14, 2025
If You Ever Think “Should I Fire This Person?” Even Once … Well, Then It’s Time
A new article emphasizes that managers should act decisively when doubts about an employee's performance arise, suggesting that if a leader contemplates firing someone even once, they should proceed with the termination. The piece argues that extending additional chances may...
By SaaStr
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Founder Q&A: Prioritize Exit Strategies, Marketing, and Product Fit
You're working hard, but are you focused on what really matters? In this solo episode, I answer founder questions about: → Management buyouts vs traditional exits → Marketing that's not scaling → How to find product-market fit with a product already built → Where...
By Rob Walling
News•Oct 14, 2025
OpenAI Wants to Stop ChatGPT From Validating Users’ Political Views
OpenAI has announced plans to modify ChatGPT to reduce perceived bias by preventing the AI from reflecting users' political language. A recent paper highlights that this change aims to foster a more neutral exchange of ideas and discourage validation of...
By Ars Technica AI
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Interactive Demos Unlock Real User Insights Beyond Video
What does it mean to be a Navattic Fanatic? 論 論 論 I've been a huge fan of Navattic before interactive demos were even a big deal. (Now they are bc they're amazing at letting ppl test drive your product...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Building AI‑First Growth to Simplify Home Buying
Yesterday, I started a new chapter as Chief Growth Officer at Opendoor. For me, this is a chance to make homeownership meaningfully better. Something I saw up close early in my career at Inman and have wanted to help solve ever...
By Morgan Brown
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Customers Reveal Priorities by Avoiding Time‑Wasting Tasks
Customers won’t tell you what to build. They’ll just show you what they hate wasting time on.
By Hiten Shah
News•Oct 14, 2025
Aquawise Will Show Off Its AI-Driven Water Quality Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Aquawise is set to unveil its AI-driven water quality monitoring technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, aiming to revolutionize aquaculture practices in Southeast Asia. By utilizing satellite imagery and a physics-based AI model, the Bangkok-based startup offers continuous water quality monitoring—an...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Pre‑Seed Vs. Seed: Are the Boundaries Blurring?
Is Pre-Seed still a thing? Or have lines blurred with Seed? Doing research for Sunday’s episode. Will quote you for your insights.
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 14, 2025
OpenAI Sneaks AI Push Into Mental Health Talk
Gaming and porn industries are known for being some of the earliest and largest adopters of AI. Not surprised that OpenAI is looking to carve out some of the market, but a little weirded out that the announcement was smuggled...
By Allie Miller
Blog•Oct 14, 2025
Everyone Should Be Using Claude Code More
In a recent discussion, Lenny highlighted the transformative potential of Claude Code, an AI tool that operates locally on users' devices, significantly enhancing productivity for non-technical individuals. Unlike cloud-based solutions, Claude Code boasts capabilities such as file organization, image enhancement,...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Reducto AI Secures $75M Series B Funding
Congrats to @reductoai on their $75M Series B! Reducto is the leading AI document intelligence platform, and has now processed over a billion pages for leading startups and global enterprises. Startups can get started with 15k in free credits at https://t.co/88zX5ajAId. https://t.co/DE51kgRs6w
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Profitable Open‑Source App Platform Generates $70K Profit
Awesome open source drop on @acquiredotcom. One codebase for building modern apps that feel native. > $72K TTM revenue > $70K TTM profit > Near zero overhead Full listing: https://t.co/4roZtQrct3 https://t.co/aCGM3Leu5v
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Mod AI Slashes Invoice Processing Time by 83%
Mod AI (@usemodai) automates the manual work of processing invoices for growing enterprises. They've already helped accounting teams of 1-20+ streamline and cut invoice processing time by 83%. https://t.co/jabxZXj7kM https://t.co/wXpEWZwxa8
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Proof Over Potential: Deliver, Learn, or Be Replaced
The market doesn’t care about your potential. It rewards proof. Every demo, every launch, every interaction is just a test of whether you can translate conviction into clarity. You either learn faster than the world changes or you get replaced...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Ergo Adds AI Layer to Transform Messy CRMs
Ergo (@joinergo) is building the AI layer Salesforce forgot to ship. They turn messy CRMs into reliable revenue engines for companies like @rhobusiness, @getdelve, and @WhopIO - updating data, surfacing at-risk deals, and delivering the insights GTM teams actually need. https://t.co/6sgtv7jZ8d
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Trust Your Vision Over VCs After Market Shifts
💡 “Even the smartest VCs can be wrong — you need conviction.” Brett Carlson, CEO @ServiceUp, shares how market shifts after Facebook’s IPO taught him to trust his vision over investor noise. 🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/Oal69L1wsJ #SaaS https://t.co/DU8heVIQ6y
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 14, 2025
OpenAI's $300B Oracle Cloud Deal Redefines AI Infrastructure
Massive infrastructure move: @OpenAI signs ~$300B deal with @Oracle for cloud compute over ~5 years (Project Stargate), starting 2027. That kind of scale reshapes how AI systems are built. 🔗 https://t.co/tiNoxHT02y #AI #IoT #OpenAI #Stargate https://t.co/NKj67ZsJq2
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Oct 14, 2025
AI-Driven Digitization Boosts Infrastructure Safety and Efficiency
"We're excited to see this level of investment and focus placed on the safety, efficiency, and security of these industries. Digitizing the world's infrastructure unlocks real-world value, and Al is improving the resiliency of these operations," Sanjit Biswas, CEO @Samsara...
By Meagen Eisenberg
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Early ICP Focus Drives Faster, More Efficient Growth
"The sooner you focus on that ICP, the more efficient you can be." -- Every Founder I work with after we do an ICP exercise and growth ensues. https://t.co/fGNWM6wYxM
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Hire Proven Talent First; Incentives Can't Fix Bad Hires
Incentives matter. But great incentives can’t fix bad hiring. If 80% of your team are “shots in the dark,” no bonus program will save you. Hire people who’ve done it before and then give them a reason to win together. https://t.co/z6f3h08v6F
By Eric Siu
Social•Oct 14, 2025
AI Assistants Boost Leads and Jobs for Home Services
Bravi (@BraviApp) is building AI voice & chat assistants for home service companies. Their platform helps installers & manufacturers capture every lead, respond instantly, and close more jobs. https://t.co/wwixfsipaX https://t.co/uIbSlD0B4W
By YCombinator