NEW: I tried to explain why there are so many victims of spyware, despite the fact that its makers have been telling us for years that the tech is only intended to be used in limited cases. There are several reasons, including how the spyware systems are designed, and how powerful they are.

At last, we have sufficiently advanced technology to allow men to be loved techcrunch.com/2025/11/09/e...

The three genders (pig, bear, rabbit)

Folks, you can’t just tweet that some specific change has made you leave New York. It doesn’t count unless you write the whole essay.

Hard to imagine this level of success for Zohran without the reemergence of Allison Crutchfield as a creative force. Indeed, many analysts are already calling this "the Snocaps wave."

Get his ass, Ishmael

Rhonda Santis

Meta is spending billions on AI — but so far, there’s no plan for how to make money from it techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/m...

One of the most touching things about AI discourse is the absolute certainty that putting more intelligence into the world will make society richer and happier. People see it as so obvious that it’s hardly even discussed.

Tag yourself, I'm _oo_.

The OpenAI conversion includes a provision for independent verification of AGI, if the company ever thinks they have achieved it techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/o...

That is a lot of suicidal users! techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...

The Harper's Goon piece is great — easily one of the best things I've read about the contemporary internet harpers.org/archive/2025...

this was before they knew enough to call it "that dog"

Holding onto this one

Cannot stress enough how little Jesus talks about sex and how much he talks about money. Every other line out of the guy’s mouth is like, “You absolutely have to give away all of your money to the poor.”

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

One Battle After Another would have been better if it had ended with Ghetto Pat turning to the camera and saying "I am a liberal now" and then specifying he's the exact same kind of liberal I am

*Tres* leches?? En esta economia?!

Once again, I have been passed over for the Nobel Prize for Literature

After OpenAI’s dev day, all the pieces are in place for AI-driven commerce techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/o...

They’re selling Labubus at the Grover Cleveland Memorial Truck Stop

Ultimately, Hard Boiled is a film about the corrupting power of jazz music

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

"In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police."

This is an interesting look at the public grocery store idea, but the problems it brings up — food deserts, regions dominated by a single provider — do not really exist in New York prospect.org/economy/2025...

Everybody and their mother is talking about AI, but how much of what people are saying is true? @russellbrandom.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to cut through the misinformation to explain why so many people are getting AI so wrong.  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/xIp6TgYM9zw

Get the gang together — I’m planning a heist

Today in @techcrunch, I talked with Google’s PM for developer tools Ryan Salva — and learned a ton about how AI-assisted coding works in practice techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/h...

smh... do better, Gwar nypost.com/2025/09/21/u...

When Mitski said, “I will go jogging routinely,” I felt that

"It is important to keep in mind that fear is a weapon." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

It seems like the California DFPI is using an AI-generated image as part of its crypto scam warning. Note the illegible writing on the ATM and surrounding packages.

It is genuinely disheartening to see how much the online left has stayed focused on centrist media, as opposed to the actual conditions of the world.

Wow, unfollowing now -- I was a big fan of "capitalism" as an indie game genre; I didn't realize it was also a global force structuring all human interaction.

This morning in @techcrunch.com, I look at a surprising scenario for how major labs like OpenAI and Anthropic could fail even as the overall AI industry succeeds. It’s a very popular idea in the industry right now, although people are wary of laying it out in public. 🧵

A lot of posting is driven by a sense of political urgency that's completely divorced from any meaningful system for obtaining and using political power, maybe not even remembering that such a system could exist.

same tbh

I have never felt more luddite than when my email client told me not to use an adverb

Writing out a topical joke tweet on paper, folding it up and burying it in a mud hole like Tony Leung at the end of In The Mood for Love

RSL has built a robust, scalable system for licensing AI training data. Now, the question is whether the industry will use it. techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/r...

A pretty good poem about targeted advertising

Murder at Burning Man!?! techcrunch.com/2025/08/31/m...

Nanobanana, unpeeled techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/g...

A really thoughtful piece from @rebeccabellan.bsky.social n about the specific design choices fueling the AI delusion problem techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/h...

If Gavin Newsom uses this as his campaign theme, he will win all 50 states youtu.be/zdPCt5ZEf40?...

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

Terrible news for my haters: Today is my first day as AI editor at @techcrunch.com! Say hello at [email protected] or on Signal at 412-401-5489.