The top 6 media/entertainment startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Here is the full list of the media/entertainment Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
AI Character Chatbot Review: Key Features & Pricing
AI Character is structured to enable open conversation by minimizing rigid controls and scripted dialogue patterns. Rather than steering exchanges toward generic answers, it adapts to the direction and tone…
Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works
Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social…
AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business
After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.
‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential
AI founders are increasingly using their “dropout” status as a credential during YC pitches.
How Cloudflare’s tokio-quiche Makes QUIC and HTTP/3 a First Class Citizen in Rust Backends
Cloudflare has open sourced tokio-quiche, an asynchronous QUIC and HTTP/3 Rust library that wraps its battle tested quiche implementation with the Tokio runtime. The library has been refined inside production…
Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026
The exact impact AI will have on the enterprise labor market is unclear but investors predict trends will start to emerge in 2026.
Tade Oyerinde and Teddy Solomon talk about building engaged audiences at TechCrunch Disrupt
Founders Tade Oyerinde and Teddy Solomon spoke at Disrupt this year about keeping communities engaged.
These are the best gadgets for your pet right now
From AI smart cameras that describe your pet’s actions to a smart door that knows when they want to go outside, these are the best pet gadgets of 2025.
How to Design Transactional Agentic AI Systems with LangGraph Using Two-Phase Commit, Human Interrupts, and Safe Rollbacks
In this tutorial, we implement an agentic AI pattern using LangGraph that treats reasoning and action as a transactional workflow rather than a single-shot decision. We model a two-phase commit…