Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to

AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.

Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets

Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.

Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?
Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?

As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that made creators matter – the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked – is now accessible to anyone with the right tools.” […]

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5 days to save up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket. These lowest rates of the year disappear on February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here.

How AI agents could destroy the economy

Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.

Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military’s use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk.”

How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?
How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?

Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, and Luke Igel and some friends were clicking around, trying to follow the threads of conversation through garbled email threads and a PDF viewer that was, frankly, “gross.” In the coming months, the Department of Justice […]

CEO, AI Is Your Job

72 percent of CEO surveyed believe they are the primary decision-maker on AI in their company. Many are betting on deploying the tech to ensure their long-term survival.

Old-Fashioned Therapy Gets Transformed Into AI Mental Health Micro-Bursts Anytime Anywhere

At scale AI usage for mental health is on a snacking basis, which I coin as AI-based therapy micro-bursts. Here’s what it is all about. An AI Insider scoop.

5 Vibe Coding Use Cases Every Company Can Start Using Today

This article breaks down five practical use cases, plus the guardrails leaders need, so organizations can move quickly without creating unnecessary risk.