San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco | TechCrunch — In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators its time to put more requirements on robotaxi operators like Waymo.
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer | TechCrunch — Watch as Equity breaks down the hot IPO summer, what Google's $920M compute deal with SpaceX says about the AI infrastructure race, and more of the week's headlines.
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch — OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Adobe is making its tools available in Slack | TechCrunch — Users will be able to access Express, Premiere, and Acrobat in Slack
College Football Playoff predictions: Who's most likely to make the field — Find out which teams our experts think will make this season's CFP.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch — David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
A founder I know spent six months building the 'perfect' onboarding flow. Turned out users just wanted to skip it. He's now obsessed with what people actually do versus what we think they want to do. 🤔
Exclusive: Anker-backed Evotrex raises $30M to build its off-grid RV | TechCrunch — The startup is one of many entering the RV space, but it's banking on a hybrid power system that can go far beyond campsites.
Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin | TechCrunch — The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.
Anthropic files to go public | TechCrunch — The company said Monday it has filed confidentially for an IPO.
Gordon Murray Le Mans GTR Logs First Public Test Miles at Le Mans — One of Gordon Murray’s most ambitious projects reached a significant milestone in France this year. Unveiled in 2025, the sold-out Le Mans GTR by Gordon Murray Special Vehicles (GMSV) made its dynamic…
VoidZero is joining Cloudflare — VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots — The dirtier the better, apparently.
Jeff Bezos, you were so close to making a good point | TechCrunch — "Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps | TechCrunch — This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch — The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
Every rumored name for the foldable iPhone — So far, there are three leading contenders.
Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers | TechCrunch — As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads.
Vellum Venom: 2026 Audi RS e-tron GT — Looksmaxxing is a modern beauty trend that’s generously defined as looking your best on social media. The lengths people go to enhance their look to the max can be unsafe, but when it comes to cars, the trend is a little more…
EU Envoy Urges Maximum Pressure on Russia — EU Ambassador to the United States Jovita Neliupšienė joins Bloomberg This Weekend and discusses with hosts Christina Ruffini and Jeff Mason that Europe must keep supporting Ukraine while applying “maximum pressure” on Moscow because…
'The world seems to be ready': An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux | TechCrunch — TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.
FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients' medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap | TechCrunch — The U.S. federal consumer watchdog said Hims & Hers, which prescribes for sexual wellness and mental health conditions, used website trackers to share customers'…
Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users' location data with advertisers | TechCrunch — Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.
Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A | TechCrunch — Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools — Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn't find themselves frustrated at the abyss.
AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10 | TechCrunch — A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh —…
Copilot searched your mailbox. LiteLLM handed out admin keys. Run this 5-check audit before your stack is next — <p>Two AI tools broke in the same way in the same two weeks, and four research teams proved it. The pattern underneath every disclosure is one sentence: enterprise…
Tesla settles FSD crash lawsuit as federal investigations continue | TechCrunch — The lawsuit was connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company's advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving.
Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup | TechCrunch — The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.
Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude | TechCrunch — The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.
OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models | TechCrunch — OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.
Another AG is Suing a Wedding Photographer Over Undelivered Images — Families have been left without their photos.
Meta's $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn't work well | TechCrunch — The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
Google's new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet | TechCrunch — The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock | TechCrunch — Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
Mark buys a castle | TechCrunch — Mark Zuckerberg just bought a cozy abode somewhat close to Meta’s international headquarters in Ireland.
Apollo’s Slok Says Fed’s New Silence Fuels ‘Yo-Yo’ Bond Market — Apollo Global Management’s Torsten Slok said the Federal Reserve’s abandonment of forward guidance is fueling historic bond market volatility, sending Treasury yields swinging “up and down like a yo-yo.”
Cerebras raises $5.5B, kicking off 2026's IPO season with a bang | TechCrunch — A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.
AI agents are learning on the job — just not for your whole team — <p>When someone on a team corrects an AI agent — better prompts, better feedback, better context — that improvement disappears the moment a colleague opens the same tool. The correction doesn't transfer, and
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes | TechCrunch — Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy | TechCrunch — Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
Albert Manifold ousted as BP chair over governance and conduct concerns — BP stock falls by over 4 percent in US and UK markets as governance concerns lead to chairman Albert Manifold's removal.
AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned | TechCrunch — A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno.
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet | TechCrunch — The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch — "If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
Scotney to face WBC featherweight champion Brown — British fighter Ellie Scotney is confirmed to face WBC featherweight champion Tiara Brown in Arlington, Texas on 8 November.
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images | TechCrunch — Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless
Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons — Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.
Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington | TechCrunch — Watch as Andrew Yang joins the Equity podcast to talk about his startup Noble Mobile, which pays you to use your phone less, ways to combat the “attention economy,” and what startups can do when the gove
Exclusive: Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service | TechCrunch — The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.
Intro to Startup anti-pattern Series | Insights, not just posts — An anti-pattern is a commonly used process, structure, or pattern of action that, despite initially appearing to be an appropriate and effective response to a problem, has more bad consequences than good…
Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid | TechCrunch — Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.
Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth | TechCrunch — AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by ICONIQ after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.
Lion Nebula Roars in Webb's Sights - NASA — Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. The nebula's
Smart ring maker Oura files to go public | TechCrunch — The Finnish company said in September that it has sold 5.5 million smart rings to date.
That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware | TechCrunch — Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.
Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months | TechCrunch — The Bengaluru startup has crossed 1 million orders and reached a $50 million annualized GMV run rate within a year of launch.
Rising petrol costs drive sharp inflation increase in US in August — Petrol prices jumped 3.9 percent month-to-month, accounting for one-third of the overall inflation increase in August.
Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a 'Harvey for police officers' | TechCrunch — The seed round for the app that provides real-time legal and policy guidance to officers was led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC.
Why did Australia give visas to Israeli soldiers but not Bassem Youssef? — The Australian government is under pressure to explain why it allowed dozens of Israeli soldiers into the country.