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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 19:11 Startups Rising Hot

AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

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Apr 21, 2026 at 19:11 TechCrunch

AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Apr 21, 2026 at 16:16 Hacker News

Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them

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Apr 21, 2026 at 15:24 TechCrunch

Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motiv...

Apr 21, 2026 at 15:02 TechCrunch

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.

Apr 21, 2026 at 14:11 Hacker News

Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go

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Apr 21, 2026 at 06:58 Hacker News

Less human AI agents, please

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ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 19:09 Startups
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Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store

Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.

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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 19:02 Startups
Rising Hot

SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people

When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But ...

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Momentum is building quickly, so this card is a good early entry point into the topic.

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Fresh coverage with immediate momentum.

TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 19:00 Startups
Rising Hot

ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

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Momentum is building quickly, so this card is a good early entry point into the topic.

Why now

Fresh coverage with immediate momentum.