Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era

NBA champion Tristan Thompson partners with World Mobile to launch community-owned network Uplift

GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers

San Francisco mayor: ‘We should be the testbed for emerging tech’

2024’s Startup Battlefield runner-up geCKo Materials reveals four new products at TechCrunch Disrupt

Box CEO Aaron Levie on how AI is changing the enterprise SaaS landscape

Microsoft Azure is down, affecting 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and others

Google to bring shuttered nuclear power plant back from the dead

How AI labs use Mercor to get the data companies won’t share

Etsy names former head of Depop, Kruti Patel Goyal, as its new CEO

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Day 3

Character AI is ending its chatbot experience for kids

MoviePass opens fantasy league game Mogul to the public

CyDeploy wants to create a replica of a company’s system to help it test updates before pushing them out — catch it at Disrupt 2025

Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a ‘legitimate AI researcher’ by 2028

Netflix CTO announces interactive real-time voting for live content

Flipkart’s Super.money teams up with Kotak Bank to make India’s free UPI payments pay

Mirror’s founder is back with a new ‘connected screen’ startup: a gaming device called ‘Board’

CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malware

LG Uplus is latest South Korean telco to confirm cybersecurity incident

Khosla-backed Mazama taps super-hot rocks in race to deliver 24/7 power

‘Silicon Valley’ star Thomas Middleditch makes a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Tata Motors confirms it fixed security flaws, which exposed company and customer data

Here are the 5 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Super Teacher is building an AI tutor for elementary schools — catch it at Disrupt 2025

Waabi unveils autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo

Aurora expands self-driving trucks route to El Paso

Netflix CTO says more vertical video experiments are coming, but streamer is not competing with TikTok

Netflix launches redesigned profiles for kids

Charter Space brings fintech to spacecraft insurance and is showing off its stuff at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Mem0 raises $24M from YC, Peak XV and Basis Set to build the memory layer for AI apps

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How to watch Vinod Khosla, Netflix, Slate Auto, and Startup Battlefield

AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Day 2

Fitbit’s revamped app, with Gemini-powered health coach, rolls out to Premium users

Adobe Firefly Image 5 brings support for layers, will let creators make custom models

PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT

Amazon reportedly plans to cut around 30,000 corporate jobs

Waymo co-CEO on robotaxi vandalism: ‘We’re not standing for it’

Glīd is building an autonomous shortcut to move freight from road to rail — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go for one year to all users in India

Mbodi will show how it can train a robot using AI agents at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

MacroCycle found a shortcut for plastic recycling — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Roelof Botha explains why Sequoia supports Shaun Maguire after COO quit

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek

Venture capital is not an asset class, says Sequoia’s Roelof Botha

CEO of Alphabet’s X, Astro Teller, on what makes a moonshot

Strong by Form will show its ultralight engineered wood at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Defense startup Pytho AI wants to turbocharge military mission planning and it will show off its tech at Disrupt 2025

Waymo’s co-CEO on the challenge of scaling robotaxis safely