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Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app

Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says

If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs

New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when...

Newsom signs bill giving Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize

Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors,...

Startups and the U.S. government: It’s getting complicated

Equity co-hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff explore the how startups are navigating a topsy-turvy relationship with the...

Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training

Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

Sam Altman says Sora will add ‘granular,’ opt-in copyright controls

OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora.

Instacrops will demo its water-saving, crop-boosting AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Agriculture consumes a vast amount of water, and some countries are under more stress than others. Instacrops pivoted to AI...

Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos

The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that...

Tesla’s insurance arm accused of ‘egregious delays’ and ‘systemic failures’ by CA regulator

California's Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed...

Bezos predicts that millions will live in space kind of soon

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the...

‘Best month ever’ for battery electric vehicle sales