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Channel Startups & Ventures (@tech) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 2 062 425 subscribers, ranking 34 in the Technologies & Applications category and 46 in the International region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 2 062 425 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 29 October, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -148 222 over the last 30 days and by -4 445 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 0.27%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 0.15% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 5 576 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 3 051 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 1 152.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as claude, openai, gemini, insider, developer.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“A hub for startup news, trends, and insights, covering the global startup ecosystem for founders, investors, and innovators.
Community: @startupdis
Buy Ads: @strategy (this is our only account).”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 30 October, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Technologies & Applications category.
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🎬 OpenAI brings AI-made film to Cannes 2026
OpenAI will premiere Critterz, a fully AI-generated animated movie, at next year’s Cannes Film Festival.
🔸 Budget under $30M — far below traditional animation costs
🔸 Most spending goes to human artists for character design and to voice actors
🔸 Theatrical release is planned right after Cannes in May 2026
A milestone moment: the first big-screen animated feature born from generative AI.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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📱 Apple unveils iPhone 17 lineup and more
Apple’s 2025 event brought a wave of new devices, headlined by the iPhone 17 series.
🔸 iPhone 17 — A19 chip with on-device LLMs, 6.3" 120Hz Always-On Display, 48MP main + improved selfie cam, +8 hours battery vs iPhone 16. From $799.
🔸 iPhone Air — ultra-thin (5.6mm), A19 Pro chip with MacBook Pro–level AI, 6.5" 120Hz display, Wi-Fi 7, eSIM-only, all-day battery. From $999.
🔸 iPhone 17 Pro / Pro Max — A19 Pro chip, triple 48MP cameras with 8x optical zoom, longest iPhone battery life yet, new orange color, from $1099 / $1199.
🔸 AirPods Pro 3 — live speech translation, top-tier ANC, heart-rate sensor, step counter. $249.
🔸 Apple Watch 11 — now with 5G, hypertension detector, 24h continuous battery. From $399. SE 3 and Ultra 3 also revealed.
AI-first chips, thinner designs, and health features show Apple doubling down on performance and wellness.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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💻 Turn any repo into an AI prompt
GitIngest lets you feed an entire GitHub repo into an LLM in seconds.
🔸 Drop in a repo link and wait a moment
🔸 Get back a clean, structured prompt with the code and files
🔸 Edit it to trim noise and keep only what matters
A neat shortcut for devs who want their AI to grok a codebase fast.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🛒Waitrose tests AI-powered smart carts
Waitrose is trialling AI trolleys in its Bracknell store that automatically scan items as shoppers put them in, aiming to cut checkout times.
🔸 Built by Israeli firm Shopic, the carts use cameras and a screen to track products and prices in real time
🔸 Payments are handled in-app, letting customers walk out without scanning barcodes
🔸 Shopic claims the tech saves up to 8 minutes compared with manned tills and reduces errors at self-checkouts
🔸 Trials follow Amazon’s cashierless Fresh stores and other supermarket automation pushes
If successful, “smart-carts” could make the self-checkout queue a thing of the past.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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💼 OpenAI to launch AI-focused jobs platform
OpenAI has announced OpenAI Jobs Platform, a hiring service where companies can find talent skilled in working with AI - from beginners to expert prompt engineers.
🔸 Platform will match business needs with candidates’ AI skills
🔸 Job seekers can take OpenAI’s own certification exam directly inside ChatGPT via Study mode
🔸 Official launch is planned for 2026
A move that could make OpenAI not just a model provider, but also a gatekeeper for the AI labor market.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🗂 72 AI tools in one cheat sheet
A fresh list is making the rounds on Twitter — 72 of the most useful AI services across key categories:
🔸 Image generation
🔸 Video generation
🔸 Text writing
🔸 Research & analysis
A handy one-stop cheat sheet for anyone working with AI. Worth saving.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🧠 Why LLMs hallucinate, according to OpenAI
OpenAI just published a rare research piece on one of the hottest issues in AI: hallucinations. The takeaway - they’re not mysterious at all, but a natural byproduct of how we train and test models.
🔸 Pretraining phase: models are forced to always predict the “most likely” next token. Saying “I don’t know” isn’t an option, and there’s no penalty for making things up.
🔸 World randomness: some facts (like birthdays or serial numbers) are inherently unpredictable. Models can’t “learn” them.
🔸 Benchmarks: most evals score wrong and skipped answers the same — 0. This incentivizes guessing over admitting uncertainty.
🔸 Garbage In, Garbage Out: data errors inevitably feed into outputs.
OpenAI’s fix? Change evaluation itself. Add “I don’t know” as a valid response, and reward honesty over confident fiction. With confidence thresholds (e.g. only answer if >75% sure), models would learn that admitting uncertainty beats hallucinating.
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🦷 Japan begins human trials for tooth regrowth drug
Japanese researchers have started Phase 1 trials of TRG-035, a drug that could regenerate lost human teeth. Conducted at Kyoto University Hospital, the study is a major step toward regenerative dentistry.
🔸 TRG-035 blocks the USAG-1 protein, reactivating dormant tooth buds
🔸 Early animal trials in mice, ferrets, and dogs showed successful new tooth growth
🔸 Human trials involve 30 adults missing at least one tooth, testing safety and dosage
🔸 Potential use cases include congenital tooth agenesis in children and age-related tooth loss
🔸 Commercial availability is projected around 2030 if trials succeed
If proven safe and effective, TRG-035 could transform dental care - shifting from implants and dentures to natural regrowth.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🛠 Build your own internet stronghold
A full toolkit of guides to help you become a truly independent internet user.
🔸 Launch a website on your own domain for free in just a few hours
🔸 Set up a private mail server and ditch Gmail
🔸 Run your own chat, social network, streaming platform - even a Monero node
Take control and build a fortified corner of the web.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🤖 Teaching a robot to ride, jump, and flip
At the RAI Institute, researchers are building the Ultra Mobility Vehicle (UMV), a bike-like robot designed to combine the speed of wheels with the agility of legs. The goal: give machines athlete-level movement through AI and reinforcement learning.
🔸 The robot’s lower half is a carbon fiber bike frame, while the upper “head” holds motors, compute, and power for jumps and flips
🔸 It weighs ~23 kg, can extend from 80 cm to 152 cm, and is engineered to survive crashes and rough landings
🔸 Sensors include IMUs, LiDAR, joint encoders, and cameras to track terrain and maintain balance
🔸 Reinforcement learning in simulation trains the robot for stunts like wheelies, continuous hopping, and one-meter flips
🔸 The team tackles the “sim-to-real gap” by randomizing parameters in training and modeling physical systems like motors and batteries
By blending robotics, AI, and athletic intelligence, UMV hints at machines that could one day navigate extreme terrain as effortlessly as human trial bikers. The next frontier: chaining skills into complex autonomous sequences.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🗣️ Altman vs Musk - the saga continues
In a new interview, Sam Altman was asked when he chose the world over corporate advantage.
His answer:
Well, we still haven’t added sex avatars to ChatGPT.The rivalry between Altman and Musk keeps delivering some of the best tech one-liners. Honestly, hard to imagine a better duel than these two. 📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🚕 Tesla opens Robotaxi to the public
Tesla has launched its Robotaxi app for iPhone users, letting anyone join the waitlist for self-driving rides. Until now, access was limited to influencers and celebrities.
🔸 Service currently works only in Austin
🔸 All rides still have a human safety observer in the passenger seat
🔸 In Silicon Valley, Tesla is testing a different Uber-style format with a driver behind the wheel overseeing the system
The move marks Tesla’s first real step toward scaling autonomous ride-hailing beyond PR stunts.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🧮 Solve your math in a few clicks
Mathos is a simple helper for students that turns tough problems into clear, visual explanations.
🔸 Covers algebra, geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics
🔸 Accepts text, photos, PDFs, or voice input
🔸 Shows step-by-step solutions and builds graphs for clarity
🔸 Free to use
If you are buried under problem sets, this will save hours.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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📱 AI Key wants to run your iPhone for you
Dafdef, a San Francisco startup known for its AI-powered smartphone browsers, has launched AI Key - a USB-C dongle that plugs into your iPhone and acts as a portable AI agent.
🔸 Works like a “mouse with eyes,” tapping, swiping, and typing across your apps
🔸 Handles tasks from booking hotels to ordering food, with step-by-step approval
🔸 Plans can be edited mid-flow — you stay in control at all times
🔸 No access to phone memory or payment data, reducing security risks
🔸 Already used by founders, creators, and researchers to cut repetitive work
A quirky step toward giving AI direct control of smartphones. The real question is whether users will trust an external agent with this much screen time.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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🤖 Figure teaches Helix to load a dishwasher
Figure’s humanoid model Helix is showing how far general-purpose robotics can go. The same system that folded towels and sorted packages now loads dishwashers - no new algorithms, only new data.
🔸 Handles stacked plates, glasses, cluttered states
🔸 Uses two arms in sync for fragile reorientation
🔸 Recovers from slips and collisions without breaking flow
🔸 Learns new skills incrementally across domains
Loading a dishwasher might sound simple, but for robotics it combines perception, precision, and adaptability. Helix’s progress is another step toward humanoids that scale beyond demos into real-world use.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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📊 Where the money flows in US startups
Crunchbase compared startup funding by state in 2025, and the picture is one-sided. California has pulled in well over $100B already, leaving New York, Massachusetts, and Texas far behind.
For founders chasing capital, the US map is simple. There’s California and then everyone else.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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📞 Assort Health raises $26M to automate clinic calls
Assort Health is betting that millions of Americans will still pick up the phone to book a doctor. The startup built a generative AI platform that replaces human operators, handling patient calls and syncing them directly into clinic schedules and EMR systems.
🔸 Already live with 50+ clinics
🔸 Works 24/7, no apps required, just a phone number
🔸 Cuts admin load and reduces errors
🔸 Just closed $26M at a $750M valuation
The catch: phone-based scheduling is a shrinking channel. In cities, apps and AI agents already handle bookings. The long-term question is whether Assort is tapping into a sticky, underserved demographic or simply cashing in on AI hype before the phone goes extinct.
Would you call this smart timing or a misaligned bet on a dying habit?📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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💡A new culture in Silicon Valley
In past decades, "hustle culture" was optional. Today for 18–25 year olds in the Valley it has become the norm. Bars, drugs, and hookups are replaced with 12-hour workdays, 6–7 days a week.
Not grinding is what’s “uncool.”
This isn’t about a few outliers, it’s widespread and culturally reinforced. It means this generation may achieve far more than those before them.
The open question is what the long-term cost will be to health and psychology.
Or maybe that’s just how we justify not working as hard.
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📊 How startups feel in 2025
Mercury surveyed 1,500 founders and the results paint a mixed but telling picture of today’s startup economy.
🔸 87% feel more confident than in 2024, only 3% say things are worse
🔸 Startups with AI are far more optimistic (93% vs 71%)
🔸 27% raised over $5M, often combining VC with loans, grants, or RBF
🔸 61% are hiring, but among $5M+ revenue companies there are no solo founders
🔸 80% expect costs to rise in 2025, mostly due to AI and automation
AI has shifted from optional to required, funding sources are diversifying beyond pure venture, and teams are the real bottleneck to scale.
Optimism is back, but founders who overextend on AI spend or inflate metrics may find 2025 just as risky as 2022.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
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❕ China enforces AI content labeling
Starting September 1, China requires all AI-generated content from text and images to audio and video to be labeled. Platforms must apply both visible tags and hidden watermarks or metadata.
🔸 WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote have already rolled out the rules
🔸 Users must disclose AI use or risk account bans
🔸 Weibo now allows people to report posts without AI tags
For startups and creators this sets a precedent: AI output is now regulated at the content level, not just the model level.📊 Powered by Crypto Insider
