Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito traps into an AI-powered surveillance network
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network designed to identify species, monitor populations, and provide earlier warnings of mosquito-borne disease risks.
Prismm helps banks keep inherited money in-house
With Prismm, account holders can give designated family members access to their accounts and documents ahead of time.
Deezer will soon let you filter out AI-generated music
Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.
How to Build a K-12 AI Lab on Any Budget: A Phased Plan for Schools
[[{“value”:” Here’s something we hear a lot in planning conversations: “We love the idea of an AI Lab, but there’s no way we can fund the whole thing this year.” That’s normal. In fact, it describes almost every school we work with. The good news is that almost nobody builds a whole AI Lab at once. Most successful programs start…
What’s Actually Inside a K-12 AI Lab? (Hint: It’s Not Just a Room Full of Robots)
[[{“value”:” Ask ten administrators what an “AI Lab” is and you’ll get ten answers. One pictures a room of laptops running chatbots. Another pictures a humanoid robot greeting visitors in the front office. A third pictures an expensive cart of equipment sitting in a closet because nobody was trained to use it. None of those is the real thing. An…
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Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace
Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell
Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to
Floqer is an autonomous customer knowledge platform that provides business-to-business sales and marketing teams with an AI-powered database designed to continuously collect, organize, and update the information used to understand their customers. Floqer is pitching Wednesday on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The startup told TechCrunch ahead of the presentation that it […]
Netflix to lay off 1,000 staff amid intensifying competition for user attention
Netflix said most of the cuts would affect its product, tech, legal, and human resources departments.