McDonald's hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing

TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

TikTok announced Monday that it's launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands.

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FairHire-ES: When Spanish résumé scores flip with the name — and what a 0–100 scale fix changed

Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge Submission This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge . Data note: Every résumé, name, and profile here is synthetic . No real candidates.

• FairHire-ES model shows name-based score variations in Spanish résumés
• v2 version with explicit 0–100 scale reduces ambiguous fitscore outputs
• Scale fix improves fairness rankings, reduces raw MAE for multiple models

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Can AI Agents Actually Use Your Website? I Built a Tool to Find Out

AI agents are getting better at using websites, but there is still a basic question that is surprisingly difficult to answer: Can an AI agent actually use your website?

• Agentic Web Check tests websites in real browser environment
• Four outcomes: PASS, FAIL, BLOCKED, INCONCLUSIVE
• BLOCKED status due to consent banner lacking close control

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Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.

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