AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe
By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Cursor.AI to ask technical questions and get…
This Week in AI: The AI agents cometh
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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft
One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn’t think it can…
Slack is turning into an AI agent hub. Should it?
The head of Slack, Denise Dresser, tells TechCrunch she is shifting the business chat platform into a “work operating system,” specifically by making Slack a hub for AI applications from…
OffDeal wants to help small businesses find big exits with AI agents
Small businesses are the unsung heroes of the American economy, employing nearly half of America’s workforce and making up 44% of the country’s GDP. But when it’s time for small…
Born from San Francisco’s AI hackathons, Agency lets you see what your AI agents do
After a long week of coding, you might assume San Francisco’s builders would retreat into the Bay Area’s mountains, beaches, or vibrant clubbing scene. But in reality, when the week…
Skyfire lets AI agents spend your money
There’s a lot of hype about the promise of AI agents today, but payments are a huge limiting factor. Today, an AI agent might be able to plan a vacation…
What exactly is an AI agent?
AI agents are supposed to be the next big thing in AI, but there isn’t an exact definition of what they are. To this point, people can’t agree on what…