🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Biotech & Health,TC,Aileen Lee,Basata,Basis Set Ventures,cowboy ventures,Sofeon,Victoria Treyger 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Much of the talk about AI in healthcare focuses on diagnosis and drug discovery or on doctor-patient visits. But a less obvious part of the system affects whether patients are actually seen at all, and it's less about the number of doctors in the world (too few) and more about the administrative work (too much) that goes on between the primary care doctor who writes a referral and a specialty office to get a patient on schedule. This…
🚀 Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,TC,ChatGPT,OpenAI âś… **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI on Thursday announced a new feature called Trusted Contact, which is designed to alert a trusted third party if mention of self-harm is expressed during a conversation. This feature allows an adult ChatGPT user to designate someone else as a trusted contact within their account, such as a friend or family member. In cases where the conversation might turn to self-harm, OpenAI will now encourage the user to reach out to that contact. It also automatically sends an alert to the contact, encouraging them…
✨ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Security,Canvas,cybercrime,cybersecurity,data breach,ed tech,Education,extortion,hackers,hacking,instructure,shinyhunters âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Education technology giant Instructure on Tuesday disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole students' private information, including their names, personal email addresses and messages sent between teachers and students. Now, it appears that hackers have managed to compromise Instructure again, this time defacing several schools' login pages for the company's Canvas platform, which allows schools to manage coursework, assignments, and communicate with students. TechCrunch saw a message posted by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters on the Canvas login pages of three separate…
🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Startups,a16z,pit,Voi 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Swedish startup Pit may have gotten the attention of some inflammatory social media posts, but it has also become another Stockholm AI startup worth watching. Pit is led by the co-founders of European scooter giant Voi, including Voi CEO Frederik Helm. He is joined by former iZettle and Klarna engineers. It is now backed by a16z, which is leading the startup's $16 million seed round. Stockholm, also home to Lovable, is one of the places where a16z is actively searching for the next European unicorn.…
✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Disney,Disney Plus,In Brief,josh d'amaro 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Top Disney executives will likely combine Disney+ with other apps like Disneyland Resort and Disney Cruise Line Navigator to create one unified app, according to a report by Bloomberg. Sources said these discussions were at an early stage, but they are referring to this as a “super implementation” internally. Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took over for Bob Iger earlier this year, emphasized his intention to simplify the Disney experience, making the relationship between Disney+ and the Disney parks more…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Fintech,Startups,TC,In Brief,Ramp đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Investors couldn't get enough of Ramp throughout 2025, and it looks like 2026 could be another fundraising year for the corporate spend management startup. The company is in talks to raise another $750 million at a pre-cash valuation of more than $40 billion, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The deal is not final yet, so terms could change. Rump declined to comment. In November, Ramp announced it had raised $300 million at a post-money valuation of $32 billion led by Lightspeed, which…
✨ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,gpt,OpenAI âś… **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI said Thursday that its application programming interface (API) will now include a number of new voice intelligence features designed to help developers create apps that can speak, record and translate conversations with users. The company's new GPT‑Realtime‑2 is another voice model, designed to create realistic voice simulations that can converse with users. However, unlike its predecessor (GPT-Realtime-1.5), this version is built using GPT-5 class logic that OpenAI says was created to handle more complex requests from users. The company is also launching the…
đź’Ą Check out this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Transportation đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Kodiak AI stock fell 37% in after-hours trading Thursday after the self-driving truck startup revealed it had raised $100 million by selling stock at a deep discount — a sign that investors were willing to back the company but not at the current market price. The company sold shares at $6.50 per share, well below the closing price of $9.10, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The increase also included warrants — instruments that give investors the right to…
đź’Ą Read this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Startups,TC,Gusto 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: While AI disruption looms over many legacy SaaS companies, many HR technology startups appear to be thriving. One such company is Gusto, which provides payroll for small businesses. The 14-year-old company, last valued at more than $9 billion, announced it surpassed $1 billion in revenue earlier this year. Unlike many startups that advertise annual recurring revenue (ARR) — an estimate of the value of their contracts over the next 12 months — Gusto's number represents actual revenue earned over the previous 12 months. Gusto was…
🔥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Elon Musk,OpenAI,openai lawsuit,sam altman đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk's legal effort to break up OpenAI may hinge on how his for-profit subsidiary advances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. A federal court in Oakland on Thursday heard a former employee and board member say the company's efforts to push AI products to market threaten its commitment to AI safety. Rosie Campbell joined the company's AGI Readiness team in 2021, and left OpenAI in 2024 after her team disbanded. Another…
