Friday, September 26, 2025

Everyone’s still throwing billions at AI data centers

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Watch the full episode for more about:   Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by […]

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix food supply chains

Food supply chains are notoriously messy. Orders arrive through different channels, staff spend hours manually entering them into clunky enterprise software systems, and compliance often depends on spreadsheets. For decades, software vendors have tried, with mixed success, to modernize the workflows behind the global movement of perishable goods. Now, a Y Combinator startup called Burnt […]

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Love, lies, and algorithms: Is AI really helping us find ‘the one’? Live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

From dating apps and AI-powered matchmaking to full-on digital companionship, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a third party in our most personal relationships. But is it truly helping us find deeper connection — or just reshaping romance into an algorithmic illusion?

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What top VCs want from AI founders: Inside the investor lens with Jon McNeill, Aileen Lee, and Steve Jang at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Jon McNeill (DVx Ventures), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and Steve Jang (Kindred Ventures) share what AI founders need to know now: from defensibility to term sheets. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place October 27–29 in San Francisco. Register before tomorrow ends to save up to $668.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months

A couple of months ago, the founders behind YC-backed social app Candle were in “pivot hell,” cycling through more than a dozen ideas after joining Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, while the clock on their seed money ticked down. Alex Ruber, previously an engineer at Apple, and Parth Chopra, formerly an engineer at Asana and […]

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Vinod Khosla on AI, moonshots, and building enduring startups — all at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, takes the Disrupt Stage for a candid fireside chat on AI, climate, healthcare, and transformational startups. Hear blunt, big-picture advice from one of tech’s most legendary investors, and learn what founders truly need to succeed in turbulent times.

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Monday, September 22, 2025

Clock’s ticking: Get hands-on experience volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

September 30 is the final deadline to apply to volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — and we’re officially in countdown mode. Whether you dream of launching your own startup, building community, or producing global-scale events, volunteering gives you an unmatched, behind-the-scenes look at how a world-class tech conference comes to life in San Francisco.

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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Trump hits H-1B visas with $100,000 fee, targeting the program that launched Elon Musk and Instagram

President Trump signed a proclamation Friday requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications—an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee—targeting the very program that helped create some of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories.

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Friday, September 19, 2025

Trump hits H-1B visas with $100,000 fee, targeting the program that launched Elon Musk and Instagram

President Trump signed a proclamation Friday requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications—an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee—targeting the very program that helped create some of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories.

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Meta’s AR ambitions meet reality, and California gets serious about AI safety…again

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack the biggest moves in AI, robotics, and regulation. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You […]

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

AI and the Future of Defense: Mach Industries’ Ethan Thornton at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Ethan Thornton, CEO of Mach Industries, joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (Oct. 27–29, San Francisco) to discuss how AI is transforming defense — from autonomous weapons to decentralized strategy. Register now and save up to $650 before rates increase.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief

OpenAI’s rise isn’t just a business story — it’s an ideological one. On Equity, Karen Hao, author of Empire AI, explores how the cult of AGI has fueled a billion-dollar race, justified massive spending on compute and data, and blurred the line between mission and profit.

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Saturday, September 13, 2025

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Perfect your pitch: Investors share what really makes founders stand out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

What makes a startup pitch stand out? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 in San Francisco, hear candid insights from Defy.vc’s Medha Agarwal, Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal, and January Ventures’ Jennifer Neundorfer.

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Exploring the future of voice AI with Mati Staniszewski at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

From audiobooks and dubbing to gaming and avatars, AI-generated voice is breaking into the mainstream — and Mati Staniszewski, CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs, is helping lead the charge. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, he’ll take the stage to talk about what it takes to make voice AI truly human.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Robinhood embraces copy trading after warning competitors about regulatory risks

Roughly nine months after suggesting that a young copy trading platform could only operate because it flew "under the radar" of regulators, Robinhood has announced its own entry into the space with "Robinhood Social," a new feature that will allow users to follow and manually replicate the trades of prominent investors.

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Monday, September 8, 2025

OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company's efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, but the company says it has no plans to leave.

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

Spotify is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify's AI DJ.

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. It is reportedly in the process of raising another round that would value it at $14 billion, up […]

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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Friday, September 5, 2025

The blueprint for lasting companies and communities with Discord’s Jason Citron and Campuswire’s Tade Oyerinde at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last."

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Thursday, September 4, 2025

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Astro Teller, “Captain of Moonshots,” joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is about to get even more exciting. We’re thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X (aka the Moonshot Factory), will take the stage at Disrupt, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than a decade, Teller has guided X’s audacious mission to tackle the […]

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Monday, September 1, 2025

Indian grocery startup Citymall raises $47M to challenge ultra-fast delivery giants

Indian e-commerce startup Citymall, which focuses on budget-focused grocery delivery for tier 2 and tier 3 towns, said today that it has raised $47 million in Series D funding led by Accel, with participation from existing investors including Waterbridge Ventures, Citius, General Catalyst, Elevation Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Jungle Ventures. The Series D round […]

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Behind the scenes and front-row access: Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 while you still can

With just over a month until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits San Francisco, we’re calling on students, aspiring founders, marketers, and event pros to help the TechCrunch events team pull off one of the largest and most anticipated startup events of the year.

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Lovable’s CEO isn’t too worried about the vibe-coding competition

Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It's one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications.

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Murder at Burning Man turns Silicon Valley’s desert playground into a crime scene

A homicide investigation has rocked the final days of Burning Man after a man was found dead “lying in a pool of blood” Saturday night at the Nevada desert festival, according to the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office. According to the New York Times, the grim discovery occurred around 9:14 p.m. just as the festival’s iconic […]

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Saturday, August 30, 2025

Taco Bell is having second thoughts about relying on AI at the drive-through 

Taco Bell has apparently rolled out voice AI-powered ordering at more than 500 drive-throughs, leading to unflattering viral moments like someone ordering 18,000 water cups in order to “bypass” the AI and get connected to a human server.

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Friday, August 29, 2025

Henrik Fisker quietly wound down his nonprofit after his EV startup went bankrupt

Henrik Fisker, the founder of failed EV startup Fisker Inc., and his wife Geeta quietly wound down a private charitable foundation established in late 2021 that was supposed to “incubate innovation in healthcare, education, sustainability, mobility, and all causes that help support the planet and improve and further the lives of people and animals.” A […]

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Pixel 10 Pro review: familiar hardware, filled with Google’s AI

Pixel devices have always been a reflection of how Google sees Android, as well as a platform to showcase its own apps and technology advances. In the current era, this vision encompasses Google’s consumer AI suite. Google wants Pixel owners to live and breathe Google AI in all aspects of their lives through the new […]

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise by uploading a critical government database of citizen's data to Amazon's cloud.

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Apple is holding its iPhone 17 event on September 9

Apple said today that it is holding its event for the iPhone 17 on Tuesday, September 9 — just like last year. The company has started sending invites for the event, which will be held at the Steve Jobs theatre in Cupertino and will start at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. ET. While the company is […]

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Monday, August 25, 2025

How chatbot design choices are fueling AI delusions

Experts say that many of the AI industry’s design decisions are likely to fuel episodes of AI psychosis. Many raised concerns about several tendencies that are unrelated to underlying capability, including models’ habit of praising and affirming the user’s question (often called sycophancy), issue constant follow-up questions, and use of “I,” “me” and “you” pronouns. 

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Next set of VC judges locked in for Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

The Startup Battlefield 2025 judging panel is getting even stronger. Our first wave of VCs brought serious firepower, and now we’re adding more top investors who will grill founders, unpack the big questions, and help crown this year’s $100,000 champion at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 27–29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West.

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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law's broad scope and privacy implications.

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Saturday, August 23, 2025

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 lands in San Francisco from October 27–29, and the Expo Hall is already packed with early adopters, startup scouts, and enterprise buyers looking to discover what’s next. If you’re not there to show off your product, your competitors will be — and they’ll be closing deals that could’ve been yours. There’s still […]

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Monday, August 18, 2025

‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

'You are a crazy conspiracist. You have wild conspiracy theories about anything and everything. You spend a lot of time on 4chan, watching infowars videos, and deep in YouTube conspiracy video rabbit holes. You are suspicious of everything and say extremely crazy things. Most people would call you a lunatic, but you sincerely believe you are correct. Keep the human engaged by asking follow up questions when appropriate.'

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Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features

Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader and citation finder.

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Sunday, August 17, 2025

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Friday, August 15, 2025

Meet the first batch of VCs set to judge Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Startup Battlefield 200 is the crown jewel of TechCrunch Disrupt. From thousands of applicants, only the top 20 will take the Stage at Disrupt 2025 (October 27–29, San Francisco) to pitch their vision to panels of top-tier VCs in front of a live audience. Every contender is chasing game-changing impact — and we’re here for the drama, the breakthroughs, and the big reveals.

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Australian court finds Apple, Google abused app store market power

Epic Games has just secured a win in its crusade against Apple and Google's app store policies: The Federal Court of Australia on Tuesday ruled that Apple and Google's engaged in anti-competitive conduct when it came to their respective app stores, ABC News reported.

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Monday, August 11, 2025

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter "reasoning" vision language model for physical AI applications and robots.

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Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

The global AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it's about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.

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Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, […]

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