conversational AI

Character.AI in the spotlight with Karandeep Anand at Disrupt 2025

Startups /

AI has captured global attention — and not without controversy. This October at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character.AI, takes the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 for a candid fireside chat on the explosive rise of human-like AI companions. Attendees will gain insight into the breakthroughs powering lifelike dialogue, the ethical […]

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Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots

Fundraising /

A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for his latest venture: a platform for building and operating real-time, video-based conversational AI agents.  eSelf, as the startup is known, is today coming out of stealth with $4.5 million in its coffers to

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Text marketing firm Take Blip secures backing from SoftBank, Microsoft

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People prefer texts over phone calls — especially when it’s a company on the other side. According to one survey, two-thirds of consumers say they’d switch to a company that offered texting as a contact option. With the text-message marketing industry expected to grow to $12.6 billion by 2025, it’s not surprising that vendors like

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Text marketing firm Blip secures backing from SoftBank, Microsoft

Commerce /

People prefer texts over phone calls — especially when it’s a company on the other side. According to one survey, two-thirds of consumers say they’d switch to a company that offered texting as a contact option. With the text-message marketing industry expected to grow to $12.6 billion by 2025, it’s not surprising that vendors like

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