Disrupt 2025

Entity category: EVENT

Artificial Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan to Replace Your Smartphone

Meta has developed smart glasses, the Meta Ray-Ban Display, to shift user attention from phones to the physical world, integrating…

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Business

Terra Oleo’s Microbes: A Sustainable Palm Oil Alternative

Shen Ming Lee co-founded Terra Oleo to address the environmental harm of the palm oil industry by producing sustainable oils…

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AI & Tech

Amazon’s New AI Agent Helps Sellers Automate Tasks & Grow Business

Amazon has launched an AI agent called Seller Assistant to help sellers automate daily operations and scale their businesses with…

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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Invests $5B in Intel for AI Chip Partnership

Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel to form a strategic partnership, aiming to co-develop data center and PC hardware…

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BigTech Companies

Bumble BFF Redesign: Now Focused on Friend Groups & Community

Bumble has redesigned its BFF platform to focus on friend groups and community building, responding to younger users' desire for…

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Artificial Intelligence

Sonair’s 3D Ultrasonic Sensor: Robotic Safety Redefined

Traditional safety protocols are insufficient for robots in shared human spaces, prompting a need for new approaches like Sonair's ultrasonic…

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Artificial Intelligence

Al Gore: China’s Climate Progress ‘Surpassed All Expectations’

China has become a dominant force in renewable energy, reshaping global climate leadership and exceeding projections. Despite inconsistent U.S. policies,…

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BigTech Companies

Snap Launches Snap OS 2.0 with Native Browser & WebXR Support

Snap has launched Snap OS 2.0, a major software upgrade for its AR glasses, introducing a native browser, WebXR compatibility,…

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Business

Andrew Yang Launches Budget Carrier Noble Mobile Inspired by Mark Cuban

Andrew Yang has launched Noble Mobile, a budget-friendly mobile service that offers cash back to customers who use less data,…

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Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Launches New AI Tools for Shorts Creators

YouTube has launched new AI tools for Shorts creators, including a specialized Veo 3 Fast model for low-latency video generation…

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Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Unveils New Creator Tools: AI Dubs, Likeness Protection & More

YouTube has launched likeness detection to help creators identify and manage unauthorized use of their facial likeness, protecting against impersonation.…

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Artificial Intelligence

Kayak Co-Founder Launches Supercal to Challenge Calendly

Supercal is a new, completely free scheduling platform founded by Paul English, designed to compete with established tools like Calendly…

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Artificial Intelligence

This $30M Startup’s Dog Crate-Sized Robot Factory Learns by Watching Humans

MicroFactory has developed a compact, tabletop manufacturing system with dual robotic arms that learn from human demonstrations for precision tasks…

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Unveils New Protocol for Agent-Driven Purchases

Google has launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open framework enabling AI agents to make purchases on behalf of…

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Artificial Intelligence

Top 9 Startups from YC Demo Day You Need to Know

Y Combinator's Summer 2025 Demo Day featured over 160 startups, with a strong focus on AI agents and infrastructure rather…

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Gadgets

Can’t Snooze This Alarm: New App Forces Heavy Sleepers to Complete Tasks

Awake is a new iOS alarm app that requires users to complete physical or mental tasks to turn it off,…

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Artificial Intelligence

Senior Devs Embrace ‘AI Babysitter’ Role for Vibe Coding’s Payoff

Experienced developers are increasingly acting as "AI babysitters," spending significant time reviewing and correcting AI-generated code to fix errors and…

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AI & Tech

Karen Hao: The True Cost of AI’s Empire and AGI Belief

The AI industry, led by OpenAI, is driven by the ideology of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), which promises global…

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Artificial Intelligence

Oracle-OpenAI Deal: Why Wall Street Didn’t See It Coming

OpenAI and Oracle have entered a $300 billion five-year agreement, boosting Oracle's stock and highlighting its significant role in AI…

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Gadgets

Quilt’s Heat Pumps Get a Power Boost via Over-the-Air Update

Quilt has introduced over-the-air updates to its heat pumps, boosting heating and cooling capacity by over 20% without hardware changes.…

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