​At least seven people have complained to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that ChatGPT caused them to experience severe delusions, paranoia and emotional crises, Wired reported.  

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​Starbridge raises $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures to help businesses better monitor public service opportunities.  

​The founders of machine learning community Kaggle are trying to upend the crowded sales prospecting market with AI. And they’re making headway.  

​The platform engineering startup Shuttle announced $6 million in seed funding to handle the infrastructure problems that start where products like Lovable and Cursor leave off.  

​YouTube is adding an timer for the Shorts feed to curb doomscrolling  

​Family location safety app Life360 is venturing into pet tech with the launch of its new tracking device for cats and dogs.  

​Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes.  

​Netflix is using AI for special effects and pre-production, but CEO Ted Sarandos that Netflix “not worried about AI replacing creativity.”  

​As TechCrunch previously reported, the maker of a popular open source framework for building AI agents has officially become a unicorn.