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Writer CEO May Habib to take the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-14 11:00:00

AI agents are reshaping how work gets done across industries, and at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, one of the leading voices in that transformation is stepping onto the AI Stage. May Habib, CEO and co-founder of Writer, will join us in San Francisco, October 27-29, for a fireside chat that dives deep into how enterprises are operationalizing AI — at scale and with speed. With more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders attending the event, this session is set to be one of the most timely and talked-about

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Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 14:00:28

At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 8 months, we’ve: 20x’d revenue and are profitable. Landed multiple si

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Apple's China iPhone sales grows for the first time in two years

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-14 18:54:26

Apple iPhone sales in China rose in the second quarter of the year for the first time in two years, Counterpoint Research said, as the tech giant looks to turnaround its business in one of its most critical markets. Sales of iPhones in China jumped 8% year-on-year in the three months to the end of June, according to Counterpoint Research. It's the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since the second quarter of 2023. Apple's performance was boosted by promotions in May as Chinese e-co

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Perplexity joins Anthropic and OpenAI in offering a $200 per month subscription

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-15 23:17:15

You can add Perplexity to the growing list of AI companies offering $200+ per month subscription plans to users who want unlimited access to their most advanced products and tools. As of today, Perplexity Max is available on iOS and the web. The subscription comes with unlimited monthly usage of Labs, the agentic creation tool Perplexity released this past May. People can use Labs to generate spreadsheets, presentations, web applications and more. Perplexity is also promising early access to ne

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Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-16 03:06:17

Perplexity is launching a $200-per-month subscription plan for its power users, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. The plan, Perplexity Max, offers unlimited access to the startup’s spreadsheet and report generation tool, Labs, as well as early access to new features, including Perplexity’s forthcoming AI-powered browser, Comet. Max subscribers will also get priority access to any Perplexity services using the latest frontier models, such as OpenAI o3-pro and Claude Opus 4. With the

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Samsung is giving existing Galaxy phone users a $240 gift for free - here's how to accept it

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-17 09:15:13

Reddit (TheACwarriors) / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you're a Samsung phone user, you can take advantage of a pretty sweet offer: a free year of Perplexity Pro. Samsung doesn't appear to have made any official announcement about the promotion, so it would be easy not to know about it, but users are seeing the offer under the "Deals and events" tab of the Galaxy Store app. This is a $240 value if you pay monthly, or a $200 value if you pay yearly. Also: 5 projects Perplexity's new Labs AI

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From chatbots to collaborators: How AI agents are reshaping enterprise work

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-08-20 06:38:53

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Scott White still marvels at how quickly artificial intelligence has transformed from a novelty into a true work partner. Just over a year ago, the product lead for Claude AI at Anthropic watched as early AI coding tools could barely complete a single line of code. Today, he’s building production-ready software features himself — despite n

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Tailor, a ‘headless’ ERP startup, raises $22M Series A

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-08-20 19:00:00

Tailor, a San Francisco- and Tokyo-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round. Investors include ANRI, JIC Venture Growth Investments (JIC VGI), New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Spiral Capital and Y Combinator. ERP systems typically come with a single interface that includes all the necessary functions, but this can be inflexible and restrict customization options. In contrast, a “headless” ERP system separates the front end (user inter

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This GaN charger is a cross between a yo-yo and a tape measure - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-08-20 23:25:23

ZDNET's key takeaways Counterpart's charger is a 35W gallium nitride (GaN) device with a retractable, four-foot cord and a foldable wall plug for $44. Its yo-yo-esque design keeps everything you need to charge in one place, and the USB-C cord is compatible with numerous devices. It may not be for you if you want a multi-port GaN charger. View now at Counterpart The Counterpart charger is on sale for 15% off now through July 6 in celebration of July 4th with code COUNTER4TH at checkout. Recen

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Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter

news.ycombinator.com Roxy Light 2025-08-18 13:28:01

By Roxy Light I recently needed to build a custom Lua interpreter in Go. The exact reasons aren’t important for this blog post, but neither the reference implementation — which I will be referring to as “C Lua” throughout this article — nor the other open source Go Lua intepreters I could find were a good fit for my needs. Building a Lua interpreter ended up being a rather enjoyable months-long side quest. I’ve had a number of folks ask me to write about the experience since these sorts of proj

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AI agents are hitting a liability wall. Mixus has a plan to overcome it using human overseers on high-risk workflows

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-08-21 18:27:45

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more While enterprises face the challenges of deploying AI agents in critical applications, a new, more pragmatic model is emerging that puts humans back in control as a strategic safeguard against AI failure. One such example is Mixus, a platform that uses a “colleague-in-the-loop” approach to make AI agents reliable for mission-critical work

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OpenAI’s API lead explains how enterprises are already succeeding with its Agents SDK and Responses API

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-08-22 19:02:25

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025 conference, Olivier Godement, Head of Product for OpenAI’s API platform, provided a behind-the-scenes look at how enterprise teams are adopting and deploying AI agents at scale. In a 20-minute panel discussion I hosted exclusively with Godement, the former Stripe researcher and current OpenAI API boss unpac

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The hidden scaling cliff that’s about to break your agent rollouts

venturebeat.com Marty Swant 2025-08-24 07:33:40

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Enterprises that want to build and scale agents also need to embrace another reality: agents aren’t built like other software. Agents are “categorically different” in how they’re built, how they operate, and how they’re improved, according to Writer CEO and co-founder May Habib. This means ditching the traditional software development lif

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IBM sees enterprise customers are using ‘everything’ when it comes to AI, the challenge is matching the LLM to the right use case

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-08-26 22:42:36

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Over the last 100 years, IBM has seen many different tech trends rise and fall. What tends to win out are technologies where there is choice. At VB Transform 2025 today, Armand Ruiz, VP of AI Platform at IBM detailed how Big Blue is thinking about generative AI and how its enterprise users are actually deploying the technology. A key them

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Nvidia’s ‘AI Factory’ narrative faces reality check as inference wars expose 70% margins

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-08-27 06:56:28

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more The gloves came off at Tuesday at VB Transform 2025 as alternative chip makers directly challenged Nvidia’s dominance narrative during a panel about inference, exposing a fundamental contradiction: How can AI inference be a commoditized “factory” and command 70% gross margins? Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq, didn’t mince words when discussing

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What’s inside Genspark? A new vibe working approach that ditches rigid workflows for autonomous agents

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-08-28 19:09:24

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Vibe coding has been all the rage in recent months as a simple way for anyone to build applications with generative AI. But what if that same easy-going, natural language approach was extended to other enterprise workflows? That’s the promise of an emerging category of agentic AI applications. At VB Transform 2025 today, one such applicat

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Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan throws cold water on 1-person, billion-dollar startup idea at VB Transform: ‘more people allow you to grow faster’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-08-28 23:35:53

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more As AI-powered tools spread through enterprise software stacks, AI coding platform Windsurf’s rapid growth is becoming a case study in what happens when developers adopt agentic tooling at scale. In a session at this week’s VentureBeat Transform 2025 conference, CEO and co-founder Varun Mohan discussed how Windsurf’s integrated development

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How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-28 23:01:00

The conversational AI market has exploded since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and is predicted to grow into a nearly $50 billion global industry by 2031, according to MarketsAndMarkets. Synthflow AI is just one of many companies building in this space that hopes to stand out from the pack because of its focus on being enterprise-grade and easy to set up. Berlin-based Synthflow is a no-code platform that lets enterprises build and deploy customized white-labeled voice AI customer servic

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‘Sandbox first’: Andrew Ng’s blueprint for accelerating enterprise AI innovation

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-29 06:38:49

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Enterprises may be concerned about the impact of AI applications when put into production, but hampering these projects with guardrails at the onset could slow innovation. Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning AI and one of the most prominent figures in AI development, emphasized the importance of observability and guardrails in AI developme

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Emergence AI’s CRAFT arrives to make it easy for enterprises to automate their entire data pipeline

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-08-30 07:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more New York City based startup Emergence AI, founded by former IBM researchers, previously made headlines for its impressive automated system that allows enterprises to type in a requested task in plain natural language and automatically create a fleet of agents to help complete it. But that’s not all the company has up its sleeve when it co

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How CISOs became the gatekeepers of $309B AI infrastructure spending

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-08-30 07:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Enterprise AI infrastructure spending is expected to reach $309 billion by 2032. The winners won’t be determined by who has the best models; it’ll come down to who controls the infrastructure layer that makes AI operational at scale. Security vendors are making the most aggressive moves. Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike and Cisco each repo

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Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with AI agent observability and MCP support

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-08-31 15:03:09

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Salesforce rolled out sweeping enhancements to its AI agent platform Monday, addressing the biggest hurdles enterprises face when deploying digital workers at scale: knowing what those agents are actually doing and ensuring they can work securely across corporate systems. The company’s Agentforce 3 release introduces a comprehensive “Comm

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How Apple's biggest potential acquisition ever could perplex AI rivals like Google

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-01 11:16:59

Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images Executives at Apple are weighing the possibility of buying buzzy AI start-up Perplexity, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Citing anonymous sources close to the matter, the report said that talks within Apple to bid for an acquisition of Perplexity were still in early stages. A spokesperson for Perplexity told Reuters that the company had no knowledge of any acquisition-related plans or discussions. Also: Apple vs. generative AI: Who needs who? If Apple were to

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Why we’re focusing VB Transform on the agentic revolution – and what’s at stake for enterprise AI leaders

venturebeat.com Matt Marshall 2025-09-01 15:44:31

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Tomorrow in San Francisco, VentureBeat’s Transform 2025 kicks off. For years, this has been the leading independent gathering for enterprise technical decision-makers — the hands-on builders and architects on the front lines of applied AI. Our mission has always been to cut through the hype and focus on the most critical, execution-orient

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Perplexity's AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 05:06:29

Perplexity is planning to open up its Comet browser that's powered by "agentic search" to Windows users, according to the company's CEO. Aravind Srinivas posted on X that the Windows build of Comet is ready and has sent out invites to early testers already. Perplexity's CEO also hinted at a potential release for Android devices, adding that it was "moving at a crazy pace and moving ahead of schedule." In May, Perplexity launched a beta version of its AI-powered Comet browser, only available to

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The $14 Billion AI Google Killer

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-02 07:25:16

A new AI darling is making waves in Silicon Valley. It’s called Perplexity, and according to reports, both Meta and Apple have quietly explored acquiring it. Valued at a staggering $14 billion following a May funding round, the startup is being hailed as a revolutionary threat to Google Search’s search dominance. But here’s the thing: it mostly just summarizes web results and sends you links. So why the frenzy? Perplexity billed itself an “answer engine.” You ask a question, and it uses large

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Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 03:00:12

Apple's executives are thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future, according to Bloomberg. Adrian Perica, Apple's head of mergers and acquisitions, has reportedly already talked about the idea with services SVP Eddy Cue and the company's top decision-makers with it comes to its AI efforts. It's early stages, however: Apple has yet to talk to Perplexity about a bid, and the internal talks may not even lead to a forma

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Report: Apple held internal talks about acquiring AI search startup Perplexity

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-02 15:46:32

As Apple scrambles to play catch-up in the generative AI race, a new report says the company has considered making its biggest acquisition ever. According to Bloomberg, Apple executives have held internal discussions about a potential bid for Perplexity AI, the fast-growing AI startup known for its conversational web search platform. This would mark Apple’s biggest acquisition ever As reported by Mark Gurman, the talks are still at an early stage and may not result in an actual offer, but the

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Meta approached Perplexity before massive Scale AI deal

cnbc.com Deirdre Bosa Ashley Capoot 2025-09-02 23:33:26

Meta approached artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI about a potential takeover bid before ultimately investing $14.3 billion into Scale AI, CNBC confirmed on Friday. The two companies did not finalize a deal, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because of the confidential nature of the negotiations. One person familiar with the talks said it was "mutually dissolved," while another person familiar with the matter said Perplexity walked away from

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BBC Threatens to Sue Perplexity, Alleging 'Verbatim' Reproduction of Its Content

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 22:32:00

The BBC is threatening to sue AI search engine Perplexity for unauthorized use of its content, alleging the artificial intelligence company generates BBC's material "verbatim." In a letter to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, as published by The Financial Times on Friday, the BBC alleges that Perplexity's default AI model was "trained using BBC content." The BBC said it would seek an injunction unless Perplexity stopped scraping BBC content, deleted all BBC material and submitted a "a proposal f

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Writer CEO May Habib to take the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs

Apple's China iPhone sales grows for the first time in two years

Perplexity joins Anthropic and OpenAI in offering a $200 per month subscription

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Samsung is giving existing Galaxy phone users a $240 gift for free - here's how to accept it

From chatbots to collaborators: How AI agents are reshaping enterprise work

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This GaN charger is a cross between a yo-yo and a tape measure - and it's on sale

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AI agents are hitting a liability wall. Mixus has a plan to overcome it using human overseers on high-risk workflows

OpenAI’s API lead explains how enterprises are already succeeding with its Agents SDK and Responses API

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IBM sees enterprise customers are using ‘everything’ when it comes to AI, the challenge is matching the LLM to the right use case

Nvidia’s ‘AI Factory’ narrative faces reality check as inference wars expose 70% margins

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Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan throws cold water on 1-person, billion-dollar startup idea at VB Transform: ‘more people allow you to grow faster’

How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category

‘Sandbox first’: Andrew Ng’s blueprint for accelerating enterprise AI innovation

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Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with AI agent observability and MCP support

How Apple's biggest potential acquisition ever could perplex AI rivals like Google

Why we’re focusing VB Transform on the agentic revolution – and what’s at stake for enterprise AI leaders

Perplexity's AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users

The $14 Billion AI Google Killer

Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI

Report: Apple held internal talks about acquiring AI search startup Perplexity

Meta approached Perplexity before massive Scale AI deal

BBC Threatens to Sue Perplexity, Alleging 'Verbatim' Reproduction of Its Content

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