September 30, 2025

CommanderAI says it's building the Salesforce for the waste management industry: CommanderAI built an AI-driven CRM and sales prospecting platform that continues the nuances of the waste management industry. Read More

Adobe's video editing app Premiere arrives on iPhones: Adobe's Premiere app is available on mobile devices, offering a variety of editing features, including some that are AI-powered. Read More

Zoox chooses Washington DC as its next autonomous vehicle testbed: The Amazon-owned company will start by mapping public streets of the nation's capital before testing begins later this year. Read More

The GPU of the next decade is here. Join Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis) and Ian Buck (NVIDIA) for an insider look at NVIDIA Blackwell, hosted by Together AI. The deep dive will cover architecture, optimizations, implementation and more, along with an opportunity to get your questions answered. Join us on Wednesday, October 1 at 9 AM PDT.

Spotify's founder and CEO Daniel Ek is stepping down: The company is replacing Daniel Ek with two co-CEOs: Gustav Söderström, currently co-president, and chief product and technology officer; and Alex Norström, co-president and chief business officer. Read More

Nothing launches AI tool for building mini apps using prompts: Nothing on Monday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps. Read More

Opera launches its AI-centric Neon browser: Neon will write code snippets, includes an agent that will do tasks for you, and handles repeatable prompts. Read More

A year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B: Cerebras initially filed to go public in September 2024 but ran into several regulatory delays due to foreign investments. Read More

Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool: The central pitch of AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet, Opera's Neon, and The Browser Company's Dia is that they'll help you complete daily tasks more efficiently. While these are agents that are limited to one browser, Composite aims to build an agentic solution that helps professionals with their tasks, regardless of which browser they use. The startup was started earlier this year by Yang Fan Yun and Charlie Deane. Yun is a former product manager at Uber, while Deane founded a company selling server proxies. When he was at Uber, he realized that a lot of people around him were doing grunt work in their browsers. "I saw people in different roles, including marketing, sales, recruitment, and security engineers, do a lot of tedious work in their browsers. I felt that this stops them from putting their education and skill to full use, and I wanted to automate this work easily for them," Yun told TechCrunch over a call about Composite's core problem statement. The company said today that it has raised $5.6 million in seed funding in a round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's venture firm NFDG, with participation from Menlo Ventures and Anthropic's Anthology Fund. Image Credits: Composite Composite offers its solution for Macs at the moment, and setup is very easy, as you just need to install the browser extension for agents to make use of that browser. You can issue different commands across tools that you use on the web, and Composite will get Read More

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DoorDash unveils Dot, its autonomous robot built to deliver your food: DoorDash's 350-pound autonomous vehicle will hold your food in its robot mouth as it drives 20 miles per hour to deliver it to you. Read More

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