timef 07/26/2025
- Tesla vet says that ‘reviewing real products’ — not mockups — is the key to staying innovative techcrunch.com2025-07-26 22:00:00
“No slides was our first rule,” McNeil told the audience earlier this month at TC All Stage in Boston. “You have to be reviewing real product.”
- Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack techcrunch.com2025-07-26 21:40:16
Exclusive: Allianz Life said the "majority" of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The insurance giant has more than 125 million customers worldwide.
- Tesla wants to bring its robotaxis to San Francisco. Here is what’s standing in the way. techcrunch.com2025-07-26 07:41:43
There will be an employee in the driver's seat -- a big change from how things have been working in Austin.
- India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch techcrunch.com2025-07-26 06:02:42
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.
- Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead techcrunch.com2025-07-26 06:00:00
Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent.
- Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge group techcrunch.com2025-07-26 05:34:18
Intel will remain an anchor investor in the standalone company which produced $5.8 billion in revenue in 2024.
- Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit techcrunch.com2025-07-26 04:58:37
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab.
- AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B techcrunch.com2025-07-26 04:11:08
AI platforms in June 2025 generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, up 357% year-over-year.
- Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist techcrunch.com2025-07-26 01:33:29
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.
- A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025 techcrunch.com2025-07-26 01:01:24
From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.
- Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers techcrunch.com2025-07-26 00:25:47
Google has suspended the Firebase account of Catwatchful following a TechCrunch investigation. The spyware operation was caught using Google's own servers to host and run its surveillance app, which was stealthily monitoring thousands of people's phones.
