Equity is digging into the week's biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies like xAI and OpenAI.

Glean CEO and founder Arvind Jain joins Equity to break down how enterprises are thinking about AI architecture, what's driving consolidation, and what's real versus hype in the agent space. 

Flapping Airplanes' founders join Equity to discuss why investors wrote the lab a $180M check, what the "neolabs" generation means for AI development, and more.

Elon Musk is building something bigger than a single company. Equity breaks down the SpaceX and xAI merger, the rise of the personal conglomerate, Waymo’s $16B raise, AI chip wars, and more.

The Equity podcast crew rolls through Uber's AV partnership strategy, why Waabi's "simulation-first" approach might be different, IPO news, and more.

Equity unpacks why SpaceX's IPO feels different, how secondary markets are heating up, and what investors are actually looking for in pre-IPO shares.

Tech CEOs dominated Davos while AI startups raise hundreds of millions on mission statements alone. Equity breaks it all down on today's episode.

Equity digs into why Anthropic, OpenAI, and the rest of the AI world is suddenly obsessed with healthcare, and more of the week's headlines. 

What are enterprises really worried about with AI? WitnessAI and Ballistic Ventures join Equity to break down the rise of AI security, a potential $1T market, and the risks of autonomous AI agents.

AI left the screen at CES 2026. The Equity podcast team unpacks humanoid robots, physical AI, big deals, and the week’s biggest tech news.

AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don't know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody discusses how his startup became a $10B middleman in AI’s data gold rush, on the Equity podcast.

Fizz founder Teddy Solomon joins the Equity podcast to explain why Gen Z is done performing online and how his app took over college campuses.

The Equity podcast crew breaks down what actually happened in tech in 2025, and what AI, startups, and VCs should expect in 2026.

The Equity podcast crew digs into how Akara uses AI and thermal sensors to fix one of hospitals’ most expensive bottlenecks: OR coordination.

iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes were very different companies, but they faced some similar challenges.

What went wrong for three once-promising hardware companies? Equity is discussing the latest wave of bankruptcies, plus ⁠Amazon's massive OpenAI bet ⁠and ⁠Trump's new approach⁠ to AI regulation.

Jiten Behl joins Equity to talk Rivian spinouts, what founders in the "physical world" need that software founders don't, and why automation is becoming necessary. 

Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec and Anthony Ha discuss what happens when the startup that used to mail you DVDs grows up and tries to buy a legacy entertainment empire as well as the other headlines that caught their eye. 

ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski admits he thinks voice models will be commoditized in just a couple of years. So what's ElevenLabs' plan when everyone else catches up? 

The latest episode of Equity digs into the ROI on AI agents and why everyone wants their own version of Spotify Wrapped. 

Day One's Masha Bucher joines Equity to unpack why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online.

Supabase's co-founder and CEO joins Equity to discuss the startup's rise and what it means for vibe coding, developers and the database giants who have historically controlled this market. 

On this week’s Equity, we sat down with Dennis Green-Lieber, the founder of the AI company Propane, to talk about the booming success of the Nordic ecosystem.

Propane co-founder Dennis Green-Lieber joined Equity to talk about the Nordic startup ecosystem, from its collaborative culture to its deep tech future. 

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that $580 billion will be spent globally on AI data centers in 2025 alone. This is $40 billion more than will be spent on new oil supplies — leading us to conclude that data centers are the new oil fields. But is this a net […]

AI isn't all or nothing, and even good bets can turn sour if you aren't careful about how you make them. 

Equity⁠ takes a closer look at the new SoftBank-OpenAI, what it signals about the sustainability of AI's current investment model, going public, and more. 

True Anomaly CEO Even Rogers joins Equity to explore the emerging business of space defense and why the U.S. is playing catch-up.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the Equity team broke down where the actual business models are for AI, and why some founders are betting against the scaling race entirely.

Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Julie Bort sat down with Tim Chen to explore the rise of solo VCs and who's rewriting the traditional venture playbook. 

“I believe that when Fred breaks 100-meter world record in Vegas next year, it will be a watershed moment to show that enhanced humans are better than ordinary humans,” D'Souza said on a recent episode of Equity.  

Tools for Humanity's CSO and Chief Architect joins Equity to discuss World's open-source approach to biometric tech and why proving humanity matters now more than ever.

Equity is breaking down the latest AI safety backlash, IPO loopholes during a government shutdown, Goldman Sachs' secondaries bet and more.

Aron D'Souza⁠, co-founder and President of the Enhanced Games, joins Equity to discuss the business of enhancement, what it means to build in the longevity space, and who gets to do it. 

Jeremy Neufeld, the director of immigration policy at the Institute for Progress, comes on Equity to talk H-1B changes.

On Equity, immigration expert Jeremy Neufeld explains how the new H-1B visa changes could backfire, helping outsourcers while pricing out startups and researchers.

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

Equity unpacks the week’s headlines, from how the government shutdown is impacting startups to the messy reality of AI monetization experiments.

Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at Encode AI, joined Equity to break down what this new law actually means and why it managed to pass its predecessor SB 1047.

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what's really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.

Today on Equity, we're breaking down deals of the week, which investors are fueling the AI infrastructure gold rush, and tech's talent shuffle.

Chipiron CEO joins Equity to discuss how his startup is tackling one of the most expensive hospital-bound technologies, MRI machines, and aims to make them available anywhere.

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack Meta reveals and the biggest moves in AI, robotics, and regulation.

Watch as the Equity team breaks down Meta’s AR gambit, California’s AI crackdown, and why robotics may be having its golden age.

We get it, it seems like every single podcast you love is now on video. And guess what … so is TechCrunch's flagship podcast Equity.

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Meta’s $14.3B bet on Scale AI isn’t just a power move, it’s a leadership shakeup, with co-founder Alexandr Wang joining the team. We unpack what Meta’s really after, plus Chime’s IPO and more on today’s episode of @equity.bsky.social 🎧

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