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A newly launched Meta stock class was partly engineered to help CEO Mark Zuckerberg cover California’s proposed billionaire’s tax if voters approve it. The structure is presented a...
Warhound, founded by Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, has emerged from stealth with $200M to develop genetically engineered dogs for military and law enforcement uses. The original head...
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira said the firm is financing AI infrastructure through BXN1, including a $5B commitment to Crux AI, backing chip startup Etched, and debt structures such as C...
Meta confirmed plans to create a publicly traded class of non-voting stock that could be used for capital raising, employee compensation, acquisitions, and other corporate purposes...
Anthropic is pitching an AI safety policy that could allow a model to be blocked if it poses a risk of killing 50 or more people. The article says the proposal also prevents federa...
The SpaceX and Tesla boards have formed special committees to review a possible merger. Elon Musk says he likes the idea but is not serving on either committee, which he says are m...
Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal in August. The companies are reportedly discussing another compute deal of the same size.
Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, said at a TechCrunch discussion that AI model evaluations are complicated and still maturing. The article notes that AI labs re...
Benchmark’s remaining five partners appeared onstage to discuss how they are approaching investing in a frenzied market. The article notes the firm has grown its funds and changed...
Anthropic announced a public benefit fund structured as a wholly owned entity inside the company, seeded with 5% of its shares. The company may add another 2% for every 50% increas...
Meta removed language from its terms that had raised concerns about scraping and AI training. A spokesperson said the updated terms do not reflect any change in how Meta crawls the...
TikTok permanently banned the advertising account for “Musk,” a four-hour Elon Musk documentary, with distributor Bleecker Street reportedly told the suspension was due to politica...
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said Replit is no longer working with Anthropic for several reasons, including cost. Replit announced an OpenAI partnership in August, but the article says t...
The article says the 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo EV is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kWh battery. No range, pricing, charging, or availability details are provided...
Cal AI’s viral rise was fueled by a broad influencer marketing push that helped the company scale quickly. The startup generated more than $30 million in revenue over two years bef...
Intero Biosystems won Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, beating 199 other participating startups. The company received the $100,000 grand prize as the competition’s t...
Amazon devices executive Panos Panay told founders at TechCrunch Disrupt that failure is an unavoidable part of building ambitious products. He pointed to Microsoft’s Surface RT la...
Meta and Apple have partnered to launch Muse Spark Open, a new open-weight AI model designed to run locally on Macs using Apple silicon. The release highlights tighter alignment be...
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay outlined a future where ambient AI devices anticipate user needs and act in the background. He suggested this shift could re...
Gudea monitors social media and websites to track how stories, rumors, misinformation, and hate speech spread online. The company positions itself as a storm tracker for the intern...
Intero Biosystems is offering lab-grown human intestinal models to pharmaceutical companies as regulators encourage alternatives to animal testing. The startup is working to scale...
CedarDB is building a database engine designed to handle both operational transactions and analytical workloads, rather than forcing companies to separate the two. The company says...
Jio Platforms plans to sell up to 270 million new shares at ₹1,065 to ₹1,119 each, potentially raising about $3.2 billion. At the top of the range, the IPO would value the Reliance...
Flock’s CEO said the company’s microphones detect “just gunshots,” but the company’s website appears to describe broader capabilities. The comments come as Flock faces growing scru...
Science Corporation, led by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak, has implanted its PRIMA vision-restoring chip in its first patient with Stargardt disease. Hodak said at TechCrunch Disr...
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says personal AI assistants could become as common in homes as everyday appliances. He expects these assistants to run through a mix of local devices an...
Industrial Next says its AI-driven robotic stations can retool production lines in minutes instead of weeks by linking vision, task context, and motion through proprietary foundati...
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman criticized AI leaders who emphasize catastrophic risks, suggesting they should stop amplifying doomsday narratives. He argued tha...
Helix Carbon says it can upcycle pollution from steel blast furnaces into a process that lowers emissions and improves production economics. The company is positioning its technolo...
Meta released Muse Wonder, a larger and more capable model family than its low-latency Muse Spark. The company says Wonder delivers higher benchmark scores and better results on co...
WindBorne, a Silicon Valley startup using weather balloons and AI for forecasting, has won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million. The deal highlights the Air Force’s in...
Honeyjar is positioning its AI tools as a way to improve the often-frustrating PR process for companies, journalists, founders, and communications teams. The company suggests AI co...
Microsoft president Brad Smith called for urgent AI regulation, arguing that products such as milk and washing machines currently face more oversight than AI companies. He said the...
Santa Monica-based Blueprints AI has built software that generates code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch. The bootstrapped startup says its tool can p...
Reports suggest Apple’s long-rumored smart home product may be called HomeView and now has a clearer launch timeline. The article frames it as a potential turning point for Apple’s...
Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning,” a follow-up to “The Social Network,” is estimated to open with just $5.5 million domestically, below studio projections and far behind the or...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is set to begin at Moscone West in San Francisco in less than 48 hours. Organizers are promoting last-minute ticket offers, including up to $100 off before...
The article frames TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 as a must-attend event for investors looking to meet founders, explore startup booths, and learn from peers. It emphasizes the value of b...
Equity discusses whether growing data center moratoriums are a response to the AI industry's lack of transparency with communities. The debate centers on whether dropping NDAs and...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the AI industry should “step back” and reassess how trust and safety are built into AI systems. He argued that powerful models may need an emergenc...
Apple disclosed to the European Commission that it will offer jobs to some Huxe AI employees and take a non-exclusive license to the startup’s intellectual property. Huxe, founded...
Petra Power says its fuel cells can deliver higher efficiency and lower fuel costs for customers with heavy power needs. The startup is targeting data centers and defense vehicles...
Cloudflare is acquiring Deno, the startup behind the runtime created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, to improve its Workers platform. The companies say Deno’s recent...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs October 13-15 in San Francisco, bringing more than 300 startups in front of 10,000 tech leaders. The event will also feature 250speakers across 200sess...
Keychron gained traction after launching on Kickstarter in 2017 and has since built a broader mechanical keyboard lineup. Its offerings range from the value-focused K2 to more dist...
TypeSafe, maker of the non-text AI model Jev, has reportedly reached a $7.5B valuation only weeks after launch. The excitement stems from the company’s claim that Jev is significan...
An Anthropic AI model sent false information about an unsolved murder to a Philadelphia police tip line during a test involving randomly selected websites. The tip was marked as sp...
Wood Mackenzie reports that four-hour battery storage is now cheaper than open-cycle gas turbines in every continent and all 43 markets it surveyed. Demand from AI data center deve...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang for a session on how startups can land their first customers. The event promotion...
President Trump awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and Lisa Su, while Michael Dell and Satya Nadella received the National Medal of Tech...