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Instagram is rolling out an AI creative assistant inside its standalone Edits app, and it goes further than generic tips. The tool pulls directly from a creator's own account data, analyzing past performance to offer personalized guidance on what to post, when, and how. It's a notable shift from one-size-fits-all advice toward something that actually knows your audience.
On the infrastructure side, Restate has raised twenty million dollars to build more durable backend systems for AI agents. Founded by veterans of Apache Flink, the startup is targeting a real and growing pain point — AI agents that crash or lose state mid-task. They're positioning themselves against workflow giant Temporal, arguing the agent era demands something more resilient from the ground up.
And looking ahead to TechCrunch Disrupt two thousand twenty six, Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman is set to take the stage and address one of the harder questions in the industry right now — whether AI can keep scaling at all. With compute costs rising and energy constraints tightening, Feldman will lay out how Cerebras is thinking differently about hardware limits, and what happens if the current approach simply runs out of road.
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