Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster,” adding that he’ll continue to advise the company.
President Donald Trump promoted yet another product this week: “great grass” from the company he said replaced the White House lawn free of charge. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump praised Scotts Miracle-Gro, a public company based in Ohio that sells lawn and garden products. Trump said the company would soon
South Korea’s stock market was back in the red on Monday, extending a turbulent stretch after July’s historic selloff. On Monday, the country’s benchmark Kospi index closed 5% lower as index heavyweights Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both ended 9% lower. The declines reversed part of Friday’s record rebound, when the Kospi surged 178% —
Don’t use Swiss Army knives for surgically precise work; use scalpels. That’s what Manos Koukoumidis and other players in the AI cost-saving business say is the biggest problem with how companies use AI. They’re using the most powerful, versatile, and expensive AI models — from frontier labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — to handle niche
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, a standard to allow AI models and agents to securely obtain external data and tools, has filed a lawsuit against human resources software startup Rippling, according to the complaint seen by TechCrunch. The lawsuit is a warning to anyone selling AI infrastructure to enterprise
It’s not just you: AI startups are receiving a lot of seed funding and, in the process, making things difficult for anyone seeking funding, even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders who are now locked into early-stage expectations.